Who remembers south african songs as in Vuyelwa(hawa watoi walienda wapi?)ntombi,mafura et all.do this musicians still exist. walikuwa wadeadly sana those days.

@ ric deesNo crackin no payinHeheeehe. umenikumbusha mbali sana. My bro was so good at bano that he could come home with about 50 in a day. Mum would throw all of them in the pit latrine lakini my bro just needed to borrow mine en the circle would continue. imagine the guy is now a child dev. officer.sijui kama ananyanganya watoi bano's.ill ask him.

There was also 'chobo mangoto'. Woe unto you if you can't find a tree to shika.

We had dogs and during the hol's we would sit outside the gate and wait for passing kids so we can unleash dogs on them. We would have the dogs chase them while we ran after screeming 'Shikaaaaa' kamataaaa. All dogs were called 'busku,or Simba'.

Ooh and there was that game involving flipping pekele(bottle top) liners by blowing. That game made my cheeks hurt all the time from the continous blowing but I didn't care.

The most precious liners were those with colored pictures and one was ordinarily worth 10 regular one's. We would spend the all our spare time hanging around shops collecting the pekele's to get the liners. This always got me a beating,actually everything I did always got me a beating from the ever watching mom.


I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.

Those days we used to read Asterix & Tintin comics.
Also used to drink or fathes vodo & add water inside not knowing he had marked the bottle.

Talking of Tin tin and asterisk - what became of those 'Jame Hadley Chase' novels that would do the rounds? Also,way back then - famous five and secret seven.

The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less