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Name: Robin Hutchings
Date: 2012-10-01
Entry #: 169
Comments:
Brought a tear to my eyes to be reminded of those days so long ago.... thanks a lot for reminding me of a wonderful life...
Name: Jill Yeates nee Esof
Date: 2012-08-06
Entry #: 168
Comments: Hi Mags, fantastic that you keep us all informed about our wonderful Bulawayo. I was with RTV the ZRTV and then ZTV 1978 to 1987. Amazing years in the world of broadcasting. So many memories and just to let you know that both Mike and I are well and wish you all the best. Would love to hear from you yourself sometime.
Regards, Jill
Name: Godfrey Mhlanga
Date: 2012-07-26
Entry #: 167
Comments: Thank you! A very good way for updating the Bulawayo community of whats going on in and around the city of kings and queens...
Name: Tatiana H
Date: 2012-07-14
Entry #: 166
Comments: Hi Maggs
I just want to thank you for all the articles you have written. I was raised in Zimbabwe but went to live with my parents abroad at a young age. It helps to read your wonderful stories about home that are not depressing or de-motivating.
Even though I am not able to return as much as I would like to your stories do make up for it greatly.
I hope you don't stop anytime soon.
Again I would like to say Thank You on behalf of every Zimbabwean abroad, you are a STAR
Name: Tom Purcell
Date: 2012-06-26
Entry #: 165
Comments: Hi Mags,
Wonderful piece about voices. I don't know any of them as I grew up in the UK and only recently (1999) came to Cape Town.
You may know that LM Radio has been back on the air for 2 years. Check out www.lmradio.co.mz
I present the Sunday afternoon show between 1 and 5.
All the best and thanks again for a lovely article.
Best wishes,
Tom Purcell
Name: Celia Mackay Dedekind
Date: 2012-04-15
Entry #: 164
Comments: Dear Mags.
I am sure that we must have been there at roughly the same time! So enjoyed reading your blog! Kind regards
Name: John Nette
Date: 2012-03-25
Entry #: 163
Comments:
Hi Mags
It was wonderful to find your website and your Morning Mirror. I miss old Africa and I'm trying to reconnect with some of my roots.
At present I'm work in China but I hail from Africa - born in Mombasa, Kenya and grew up in South Africa. Travelled to Rhodesia as a child, a stone hit the windscreen on the unpaved road and I shivered the whole way to Salisbury. As an adult I worked in Francistown, Botswana for a couple years. We used to pop over to Bulawayo and overnight at the BYO camping ground, then have brunch at Sisters in Haddon and Sly. What memories!
Keep up the good work. I look forward to visiting regularly.
Name: Arlene Garner
Date: 2011-11-29
Entry #: 162
Comments: What a great paper to read each day.
Name: C
Date: 2011-11-11
Entry #: 161
Comments: Dear Mags,
Could you please e-mail at this address. I am unable to send you an e-mail on the morningmirror@mac.com address. It keeps coming back undelivered. I have some questions that I wanted to ask you. Thank you. Kind regards, C
(from Ed - use magskriel@mac.com )
Name: Vivien Walden
Date: 2011-10-11
Entry #: 160
Comments:
After 40 years I am still homesick. At least reading your site I can stay in touch.
Name: Alan (Pooley) Whitfield
Date: 2011-08-22
Entry #: 159
Comments: Its an honour to read your Bulawayo Mirror and catch up with whats happening. I was a very close friend of Geoff Crimes who contributed a number of articles to the mirror, and was very sorry to hear of his passing. Mag's you are doing a wonderful job against all odds, keep up the excellent work. A big " Hi" to any of my old friends who may still be in Byo.
Many thanks
Alan ( Pooley)
Name: Peggy Snead
Date: 2011-04-23
Entry #: 158
Comments:
Right now I am in the Melbourne Yacht Club, Florida, USA, with Dorothy. She is a world traveler, having been to Africa fourteen times in her travels. She has stayed at the Queen Mary House at least four time and wishes to return.
Is the House still in operation, and if so, how can we get in touch?
peggy
Name: Annetta Holmes
Date: 2011-04-22
Entry #: 157
Comments: Just got back from a weekend in Bulawayo - have not been back since 2005.
I was pleasantly suprised by all the activity - little businesses open every were. Hillside was teeming with activity. We went out to dinner at Ascot Shopping Centre, went for a picnic at the Rhodes Matopos National Park, and visited the camp at Ncema Dam. Wow! Well done people. Good to see the pioneering spirit and the make-it-go-right besides obstacles.We are planning a fishing trip to Binga in November. This message is to those ex-Zimbabweans who may be considering a holiday there. Go! It was really lovely to see the recovery. Farmers are still being hurt and attacked, but businesses are trying their best and the atmosphere is buoyant. So, Go!
Name: Vivienne Pascall
Date: 2011-03-01
Entry #: 156
Comments:
My sister has sent on the link to your site, and I was delighted to see the photos of the Centenary celebrations at Eveline. I started there as a Form 1 pupil (Vivienne Burl) in 1960, the year of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, and sent silent good wishes to Eveline last year. My late sister, Hilary was Head Girl in 1964. Winifred Powell was our Headmistress, with a marvellous staff. My husband's nephew is married to Celia Davies's granddaughter!
Glad to see the girls are still so smartly turned out in brown, maroon and pale turquoise!
Best wishes to Eveline High School!
I have great memories from a wonderful Bulawayo childhood.
Name: Annetta Holmes
Date: 2011-02-11
Entry #: 155
Comments: Thanks so much for the memories. I salute all those stalwarts that have remained and tried to re-build. How I miss the Jacaranda's in October!
Name: maurice "mickey" weinstock
Date: 2011-01-14
Entry #: 154
Comments: hi maggie,
i stumbled into your website and started reading all your articles until emotion overcame me . i am so grateful to you for recording so much of bulawayo life and history . i was born there and spent half my life there . now i live in israel which is a bit like out of the fire into the frying pan .
my father came to bulawayo in 1925 and pioneered the modern timber industry in zim . i am involved in lumber over here as well. if any friend from zim still rembers me i hope they will send me a mail . better still please visit for a great holiday.
i want to wish you and yours everything of the best and hope you keep up the good work.
mickey weinstock
Name: Martin McGhee
Date: 2010-12-24
Entry #: 153
Comments: Hi again
Imagine, Julie Morris! Such a big crush during my RTV days! Sadly the other Martin committed suicide in Durban some years ago. Much missed friend.
martin M
Name: Martin McGhee
Date: 2010-12-24
Entry #: 152
Comments: Hi maggie!
Really enjoy keeping up with Byo news. Still miss the old place dreadfully! Especially my RTV days.
Martin
Name: Julie Morris
Date: 2010-11-16
Entry #: 151
Comments: Hi again, sorry that was Martin Hendy, Martin McGhee lived over the road from us in DBN with Angus....but also knew him from RTV.
Name: Julie Morris
Date: 2010-11-15
Entry #: 150
Comments:
Hi Maggie, via your letters, got to know of Peter Rollason's book 'One man in his time' it brought him so to mind and memories of my life in Byo. Then logging in to say thanks to u I see Martin McGhee, posted u a note. Ah memories there too RTV byo and Scope if I am right in SA..Sandra and I listening to Roxie Music plus others for him to comment on.
So a big thank you from myself and I believe from a lot of other people as well that you give pleasure to each time they read your work.
Name: Effort M
Date: 2010-11-13
Entry #: 149
Comments: Came across this site when i was googling restaurants in byo. Great site, quite informative. didn't know byo was this beautiful. will be sure to pass the word around. Keep up the good work Mags.
Name: Martin McGhee
Date: 2010-09-15
Entry #: 148
Comments: Hi Maggie
Found your website at Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK public library. Hope all well and good your side. I arrived in UK only last May and haven't yet acclimatised - probably never will, but such is life.
Pse respond and tell me something about what you are up to. I'm currently writing a book of my memoirs of 40-yrs in the media in southern Africa, starting with my stint at RTV Byo 1969 - 1980. Such great memories, many of which now escape me but I'll bash on regardless.
Hope to hear from you soon.
All the best
martin the Cockpit trouper
Name: Yunus Badat
Date: 2010-06-18
Entry #: 146
Comments:
Hi Maggie, my wife is from Zimbabwe, I am from Zambia and now settled in the UK. Great pictures. I have a site of my own on my home town of Ndola; please see; www.ndola.5u.com
Name: Tom Mckeown
Date: 2010-05-12
Entry #: 145
Comments: Hi Mags just checked back and it is nearly 6 years since I first posted and still get a big kick out of the Photos and articles not a Zimbabwean by birth it's funny that I get pangs of "homesickness" when the email arrives - appreciate all the hard work put in for our benefit. Many Thanks
Tom
Name: Paula
Date: 2010-04-21
Entry #: 144
Comments: Hey Mags, For an hour tonight, you took me home. Great Pics!
OUCH!!
Paula Rotteglia (nee Bergoff)
JHB, SA 21:05 20/4/2010
Name: Robert Carruthers
Date: 2010-03-17
Entry #: 143
Comments: Thanks for the great pics!!!! Took me way back to my childhood. All the best.
Name: Kit Read
Date: 2010-03-10
Entry #: 142
Comments: Thanks for an interesting site about Bulawayo past and present.
I enjoyed Graham Kings article about Sister Roux's Nursing home. I was born there in 1952, my mother said it only had room for four mothers & was a really good environment.
I tried to find it last time I was in Bulawayo (1980) but without a full address I could not. Now I have the full address when I come to Bulawayo (soon I hope) I will look it up.
Name: Craig schmahl
Date: 2010-02-24
Entry #: 141
Comments:
Came across your site by accident and am just so grateful that there are still good people in Zim doing all they can to make it a better place....
Thanks for keeping up the much needed great work
Name: Dave Hunt
Date: 2009-11-02
Entry #: 140
Comments:
Greetings Mags,
Just great to see your news and photo's; so many memories of a beautiful country- you are admired for staying on.I lived near Bulawayo for more than fifty years,now in Aussie but not the same.Take care.
Regards David Hunt.
Name: Shimon Israel
Date: 2009-07-14
Entry #: 139
Comments: Some of the photos are heartening (Centenary Park train, for example) and others depressing (Luna Park, etc).
All in all, a good cross-section. Mags, you are obviously a most resilient individual.
Shimon - Byo 1953-1971; last visit in 1989.
Name: Lisa
Date: 2009-06-03
Entry #: 138
Comments: I thought your pictures were wonderful and really captured all the places I remember when I was growing up. My dad used to take us everywhere, I miss Zimbabwe.
Thanks
Lisa
Name: Clarence
Date: 2009-03-19
Entry #: 137
Comments: Do you have any singles classifieds on your website, or space for advertisements. Please assists and let me know how much are the charges and a method of payment.
Thank you very much
Name: Hayden Murtagh
Date: 2009-02-14
Entry #: 136
Comments: Awesome awesome, not been back to Zims or Skies since 99. So your photos are just ace. Brining back all the memories and fun i had growing up. Lets hope the new government will change things quick so that we can all go back home. Keep the pics coming.
Hayden (London Town)
Name: Michael Melvin
Date: 2009-02-12
Entry #: 135
Comments: This was a wonderful surprise! Thanks for all the good memories. The Borrowstreet turnstile; my grandmother worked the pools for a very long time, especially Paddonhurst.
Name: Sue Leitch
Date: 2009-01-31
Entry #: 134
Comments: Hello, can you tell me if my aunty Betty Hunt is there. Thank you.
Sue Leitch (Miles):
Name: Nkosana
Date: 2009-01-15
Entry #: 133
Comments: Hello
Brings back memories.....how is Mr Kriel? you used to be my client when i was at Zimbank belmont.....Please put more pictures and my school Milton High ...keep up the good work.
Name: Lyn WILLEMSE
Date: 2009-01-12
Entry #: 132
Comments: Good day Mags
And compliments of the new season to you and your family. I have been viewing your photos and what an emotional time I am having seeing all those tremendously beautiful Bulawayo and Zims shots. I was born in Byo in 1959 and now reside in SA but alas all my family are still soldering on in Byo. I miss them all so much and really wish we could all still be together, especially over the Christmas period, when families should be around each other. Thank you for such a wonderful site. Keep up the excellent work and good spirits. I look forward to reading your letters this year. Take care. Lyn :D
Name: Tony Vrnjas
Date: 2008-12-08
Entry #: 131
Comments: Everything changes. And nothing changes. A wonderful couple of hours spent browsing and remembering.
Thanks.
Name: charleen
Date: 2008-12-07
Entry #: 130
Comments: hi mags, i would like to know if you could help me. shirley strever... is this the shirley that was married to chris strever.. they lived in knysna? i am a family friend and do remember her maden name as ferreira. pls can you give me her contact details if this is the shirley you know. her sons are dustin and james. kind regards charleen
Name: David Crawford
Date: 2008-12-04
Entry #: 129
Comments: Thoroughly enjoyed viewing the many beautiful photos which brought back some strong memories of the years living in Bulawayo; 40 Lawley Road , Suburbs as well as the flat above The High Court where I lived (and worked).
Name: "PJ" Dickinson
Date: 2008-11-21
Entry #: 128
Comments:
Thank you so much for giving us an accurate window on my real home - dear old Bulawayo! I wait eagerly for each issue to appear online.
Keep up your spirits - this, too will pass.
I am in constant admiration of the indomitable Zimbo spirit!
You are in our thoughts and prayers.
PJ & Lynn Dickinson (Moscow)
Name: Daniel
Date: 2008-11-12
Entry #: 127
Comments: I am so deeply sorry what is going on in this lovely country. I wish to all of you left there all the strength and all the best. You are strong people! Daniel
Name: Jerro Davies
Date: 2008-11-09
Entry #: 126
Comments: Totally gorgeous photos, your contribution to the story of our heritage in pictures is so much appreciated. Thankyou Jerro
Name: H. Austen
Date: 2008-10-22
Entry #: 125
Comments: thanks. great to see places that grew up in.
Name: Nomvelo
Date: 2008-10-03
Entry #: 124
Comments: Hi Maggie
I love your website, it reminds me of home and you are one of the few Zimbabweans that are strong. May God bless you.
We know that God will interviene at right time.
Nomvelo
Name: Peter Hutchings
Date: 2008-09-23
Entry #: 123
Comments: Dear Mags
Just read your article about the courts and your experience. I have read for many months your pages and wondered how you have had the strength to continue, but you have and I'm sure you will soldier on. Congratulations. May I through your Guestbook say hello to Frank Noble who knew my father John. He passed on in 1983 but his family name is still alive through my son Mark who incidently is a barrister here in Kent, hence my interest in your latest story. Best wishes from UK.
Peter Hutchings
Name: mini
Date: 2008-08-16
Entry #: 122
Comments: hi
at first i didnt know what to think really ,in the end i ilove it and willl tell all my friends about it,funny how the years just slip by and before you know it... but God bless you and will keep in touch.
Name: Melanie Grigoratos
Date: 2008-08-11
Entry #: 121
Comments:
Hi Mags,
Thank you for your website! Thanx to Kim for introducing me to it.... Oh wow... its also brought back such fond memories and a few tears to my eyes for sure. I was born and raised in Bulawayo... lived in SA for 20 odd years, and am now in Western Australia. Hated SA.. Aus is okay, but NO place will ever match Bulawayo .. I think of it every day and pray for things to come right there. God bless you Mags Kriel for keeping Bulawayo alive in our hearts!
Mel
Name: Frank Noble
Date: 2008-08-10
Entry #: 120
Comments: This is from Frank Noble, present Pipe Major of the Bulawayo Pipe band, still living in Bulawayo! I joined in March 1956. The band was originally formed by the Caledonian Society only later becoming a private company.
I have all the drums and drum majors mace and most of band kit as well as minutes of the band from it's inception. I played at the funerals of Erenie Cox, Murray Reid, both tenor drummers. I would love to hear from ex members of the band.
- Frank Noble
Name: Howard Marx-Hughes
Date: 2008-06-16
Entry #: 119
Comments: Hi Mags, I was born and brought up in Bullies, did 4 years in the BSAP (77 - 81) and emigrated. Now living in UK. Get very homesick and sad when I see the news reports of the situation there. Still have afew of my wifes family living in Bulawayo. I am amazed at the reports, adverts etc on your site, of people trying to ove some sort of 'normal' life in the trying times. It was hard enough during the 70's but you all seem to just try and get on with it. Typical, may I say, 'Rhodie resolve'. One day I hope to bring my children there and show them what a magnificent country it is. God Bless and we are praying for Gods' intervention. Howard
