Mozart
The same wishes to you and your family - thank you, There is a few questions I wanted to ask you about your father. You once told me he went to school in the then Riversdale Boys High School - when was he in that school? My father was there in the late 1920's and I suspect that so was your dad. By the way my grandfather owned Seekoegat - the most historic farm in the Garden route area - I was borne there and grew up there. Your grandfather must have known the farm well.
Were you father and grandfather in business here of farming? There used to be a substantial Jewish population here and there even was a synagogue here - but now the total Jewish population here - but now there is only two Jewish people here - an ex test referee Max Blaise and the Jewish lady I have for years provided with accommodation and funding - there is a flat on my property where she stays free of charge and the Jewish League also assist her financially,
Be it as it may - Riversdale has changed a lot p there are even two Chinese, two Nigerian and two Indian shops in the town center and I laughed on Wednesday when I went to the Nigerian shop and spoke in Afrikaans to the Nigerian and he responded in Afrikaans as well. The people love the place especially since there are no anti-foreigner riots here like happened ion the cities.
However, the place is in a terrible condition because of Covid 19. There were 50 active cases in the area of over 60 000 people 14 days ago - but the figure this week the figure increased to 74 cases, Although it is not widespread - the people panicked and the new Government restrictions has turned the situation into a virtual at-hone jail.
I went to Stilbaai today to take back a book Frans Malherbe's father gave me about the Malherbe family ancestry in SA and met hos wife at the site gate and did not go in. The town was dead with nobody on the beaches. I stopped at the huge Spar shop to buy something nd was not allowed to enter since there was a positive case working there - it also happen in Riversdale last week and the result was they closed Spar and had to sanitize the place, Everybody is in his own home prison like it was since March,
The Government was to sign an agreement to import vaccine to initially treat about 6 million people. They failed to sign on time before 15 December and the deposit of about R300 million was then paid by the private sector and after an uproar the Government signed the agreement yesterday. The problem in SA is that the funding provided to help people and business over the last 9 months amounting to over a Billion Rand was raided through bribery and corruption and the judiciary are mow trying to find the guilty and arrest them.
Will the same happen when the vaccine becomes available?