Johannesburg Suburbs

Apart from the suburbs mentioned, I also know very well the suburbs of The Hill, Turfontein, Turf Club and South Hills for my cousins lived there and Steeledale for we used to make our weekly shopping in the local Pick'n Pay.

Santarama Miniland

I remember of going to the Santarama Miniland on a School visit, and I remember very well of climbing aboard of Jan Van Riebeeck's ship replic and of the minitowns where the vehicles were in movement.

Pioneer Park

Going back to the Pioneer Park, this is a park located in LaRochelle, where we used to go to play soccer, to swim there was a paying swimming pool, to picnic for there were several braai facilities and as we loved our boerowors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerewors, t-bonkes and chicken. It has also a lake called Wemmer Pam, and there used to have a musical fountain, where hundreds of people joined at night to assist to this festival ( it seems that this will be coming into work again http://www.joburg.org.za/content/view/1112/168/ ) , it had a small train ride. It also hosts the James Hall Museum of transport http://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsga/museum-of-transport.htm ; http://www.wheretostay.co.za/information/topic/2027 ; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:James_Hall_museum_of_Transport. In the banks of Wemmer Pam, lies also santarama Miniland http://www.miniland.co.za/.

Rosettenville, just like anywhere in South Africa, has plenty of parks, going from simple playgrounds to National Parks. Rosettenville is mainly a residential area, which we can described formed of blocks, and which has an important commercial compound in the main roads ( Geranium Str, Main Str, Turf Rd and Prairie Str ).

Speaking of the parks, these are the one I used to go to: just one road under High Street where I lived, Rosettenville was crossed from North to South by a park or a green place, where we mainly played hide and seek, cricket, baseball, soccer as well as tennis, for a bit further there were 4 tennis courts; JC Lucas Park which had a playground, tennis courts and a small swimming pool ( which wesn't famous for being clean ); Cornelia park especially when I lived in Kenilworth for it was close to our house; Wiliam Watt Park when I used to live in Regents Park; Pioneers Park in LaRochelle, which was the park I mostly went to ( further more I'll be telling about the activities I did in this Park ) and finally John Stevenson Park in Forest Hill, where there was a free big swimming pool.

Before living in Rosettenville I lived in a flat in Kenilworth ( think it was in Frasier Str ), before that i lived in Regents Park ( Augusta Rd ) and before that in a house in Malvern ( think it was in Darling Str ).

Rosettenville, back in the late seventies and early eighties, was a peaceful neighbourhood, where lived a large portuguese comunity. There used to be many portuguese tenants, amost some big marks, such as Checkers, OK!, Spars and Woolworths.

I went to the Rosettenville Primary School and the Rosettenville Central Junior School http://wikimapia.org/9666298/Rosettenville-Central-Primary-School. I remember my days in the Rosettenville Primary School, mainly for the Christmas Parties and for the Sport events, as well as for the many study visits we done around Joburg ( furthermore I'll be telling you about them ). As for the Rosettenville Central Junior School I have memories of the good sport facilities it had ( race track, soccer/rugby camp, cricket training camp and a netball camp ( don't know if they still call it like that there, for its feminin basketball ) ) and here also we made several study visits.

I was born in Rosettenville - Johannesburg. And from 1980-1986 I lived at 124 High Str. This house by the way is in the internet for sale at the price of 30.000€. It has changed a bit as we left it, before it was in cream color, and the neighbourhood was surely better. For nowadays Rosettenville is more famous for its prostitutes and drug dealers.

Rosettenville is known mainly for two reasons ( a positive one and a negative one ).

The first ever Nandos restaurant appeared in Rosettenville. http://www.nandos.com/ , and it's the place where South African reggae musician Lucky Dube was shot dead in front of his children in October, 2007.http://www.luckydubemusic.com/

Introduction

This is a blog, where I'll post my memories of South Africa. I was born in South Africa in 1974 and lived there until 1986. During these 12 years I gained fantastic memories. I'll try to post here those memories, and if you have any comments or aditional information, please post them.