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Thanks for sharing this amazing history.

*SOUTH AFRICAN SPOTTED* 🗣🔥🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 *SOUTH AFRICA ON TOP* 🗣🔥🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 Dankie vir hierdie video.

Nice video thanks. I am surprised you did not mention the old Rand Airport which sureley must have preceded Jan Smuts Airport.

Fascinating

Stumbled on your channel and I'm loving it. Local really can be lekker.

Thank you for the great history.

Thank you for the gift of bringing our 'lost' history alive in such an enticing video 😊

I was an South African Airways employee. Some of my colleagues worked at Palmietfontein. We did aircraft maintenance.

Thank you, most informative!

Amazing around 1980 I went with my future husband and family on fishing trips there and never knew this!

My mom grew up in Primrose and ahe always said Daisy lived not far away.

are you aware there are two jacaranda jim, the first one being >> F Walton Jameson whp lived in kimberley and was a engineer

Great video thanks

Wow fascinating episode

My eldest brother was the air controller at Vaal dam!

Mooi Man.

Thank you Bru, love your channel. Brings nostalgic tears to my life. (If one can call it that) We are missionaries in adagascar (26 years) Would love to support you if I could. Vasbyt en deurdruk. Thumbs-up!!!

Wow thank you so much Had no idea

Wow thank you so much for such a unique history lesson definitely earned my subscription 😊😊😊

Paying for Premium I do not expect intrusive adverts . I will not be visiting this site again.

Hello Al, this was my first time watching your channel and I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and so you have gained a subscriber in me. Looking forward to more similar content 👍.

@AL PRODGERS - Have You ever Investigated the WOMENS & CHILDREN CONCENTRATION CAMP just Off of Columbine Road Mondeor - (Suideroord). This Stupid Money Greedy Government Gave permission for People to Build on the PROTECTED AREA - FOR MANY YEARS - HOPE YOU HAVE SUCCESS TO FIND THE GRAVES, There is a HUGE Headstone Up there.

40 years ago a full dam took 3 years before there was a water shortage. Now a year.

Thanks!

Loved this history story, Dec 24

Super interesting!

Another excellent episode Al.

Thank you, Al. Very interesting indeed.

When recent history is portrayed as major discovery

This is an amazing revelation to me. Spent many years in that area growing up and had no idea of this history. Thank you só much for sharing. From Melbourne Australia. Dankie

Brilliant, fantastic work👌👍👍👍

I actually live in one of the first “cottages” that were built when they build the dam wall.

The Postcard was to CS Lewis.

Incredible!!!

"...growing in to a young man, becoming more demanding and more difficult ." Luckily, Daisy had just the right medicine for that😂

And this was the sign that we as humans should have not started mining in to this planet and now we sit white climate change as the after affect remember Noah ark it was just water nou its gone thanks to mining so now no one should complain there's no water and it's going to get worse and there's nothing to stop this not even a cruise function is going to fix this one around he has already given up hos son for us but no one listens to GOD now wear the brunt

Thank you for a wonderfully interesting and very well presented look into the past. I've been to many of these places and have experienced some of the development, thank you for rekindling special memories!

I remember the Deneyville Hotel when I had a small yacht on the dam .. It was pretty run down but was more comfortable than sleeping onboard .. it also had a bar which was important for us guys ..this was in the 1980.s I believe it was built by Imperial Airways for passangers and aircrew of the flying boats ? Can anyone confirm that that was the case ? Long since demolished.

What happened to the British that was responsible for the concentration camps that killed women and children were they also send for trail " war crimes" ? Sorry just curious to know

Why is the dam wall blurred out @ 1:30? Weird....

Another fascinating video. Thank you so much, Al Prodgers. Long may you continue.

An amazing story… a brilliant Narator !!! Well done on your Series. We do have a colourful past👍

I have to agree with @stuartthom3713. Your position of the Palmietfontein Airport is not correct. The GPS coordinates are 26° 20' 7.20" S, 28° 08' 28.80" E.

Al, one of the best episodes yet! Well done. Always a great watch.

This was really interesting ive been to the vaal and live in south Africa and didn't know this... although i was only born late 80s

As far as I know the Vaal dam also submerged the settlement called " Westhuizen". Unfortunately I do not know the location of where this settlement/ town was.

Brilliant loved this history I didn't know any of this living in my bubble

This is caucasian stories in Africa not african stories

What a superb evocation of the heyday of Imperial Airways in Africa and, especially, in South Africa. I am now hooked on Just Off the Highway, just as many fish were hooked in the Vaal Dam on lazy, hazy Sunday's back in the 1970's..

Such a pity that probably more than 40% of the water is lost through leaking pipes etc