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leon gork tour guide
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Camping in Magaliesberg
magaliesberg our camping site
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leon gork tour guide
Dec 22, 20244 min read
Food then and Now
The harm in being forced to eat
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leon gork tour guide
Nov 4, 20242 min read
Raymond’s death 26 Nov 2021
Raymon's death
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 16, 20242 min read
Our House
Boulders of ice rolled down the corrugated iron roof
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leon gork tour guide
Jun 30, 20244 min read
My life as a servant
My mother wrapped me in a blanket and carried me on her back while she polished the floors
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leon gork tour guide
May 13, 20243 min read
The President Cinema
A childhood conflict between movies and religion
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leon gork tour guide
May 9, 20249 min read
Sunday Lunch
Family gathering for Sunday lunch
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 7, 20243 min read
The Swimming Pool.
Winter over, the swimming pool in the park opened its doors Scattered over lawn-covered terraces around the rectangle of shimmering blue...
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 4, 20245 min read
The class picture.
"The picture doesn't show me", I cried. Not being noticed, or left out of the group, was my greatest fear, and it has come about....
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 25, 20243 min read
The flood
Ginger went out into the dark and rainy night. Driven, as if by a force beyond control, to consort with a female feline, the tomcat...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 14, 20243 min read
The Schoolboy
The white page in my hand carried the words, promoted to STD V, that's all that mattered to me, even if all my marks were low. The...
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 6, 20232 min read
The lonely pinacle
My roughneck cousins rolled on the ground holding their stomachs with laughter at the sight of me, wailing pitifully, caught in the midst...
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leon gork tour guide
Jan 31, 20232 min read
Shull - The place where Jews go to worship God.
The tall white building was entered from the western side. I looked up at the Star of David-shaped window in the gable above the...
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 22, 20225 min read
My Father's Story
Note: I have put the story in my father’s mouth, as I believe he would have told it, had he been able. We had a child, a son, and wanted...
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leon gork tour guide
May 30, 20223 min read
My loving mother
Sin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...
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leon gork tour guide
May 27, 20224 min read
Back to school
"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 10, 20222 min read
The Cemetery
There they lie. The earliest inhabitants of Krugersdorp and the latest, row after row of black granite stones with names and dates carved...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 4, 20222 min read
Krugersdorp Jews
David Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...
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