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Thanks Al, loved this story. Take care and have an amazing festive season!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Theunis! I'm glad you like it. Wishing you and yours a safe and peaceful holiday.

Thanks Al, this is the first episode. Thank you for making me aware of such heritage.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed the episode, Mercia. Please browse my channel some more. I've done episodes on all sorts of South African subjects from fossils to slap chips.

Very interesting petroglyphs. About the treaty of Vereeniging, bringing to and end the 1899-1902 Boer War: Although the treaty is named after the town of Vereeniging in Transvaal, where the peace negotiations took place, the document was actually signed at Melrose House in Pretoria. Interestingly, the town of Vereeniging is named after Sammy Marks' company: "Zuid-Afrikaansche en Oranje Vrijstaatsche Mineralen en Mijnbouwvereeniging"

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction and added detail. I had read about how the town got its name, but missed the signing.

How very awesome Al. I lived in Joburg and had no idea that this monument was there

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

It's a place with a definite energy. Well worth a look. Thanks, Beryl!

@jeffbaxter8770

Жыл бұрын

It is really off the beaten track and i wd venture that very few people know of it.

Once again an interesting topic and enough information to make me want to visit. Thanks for being the voice of the voiceless Al!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Pleasure, David! I hope you visit soon. Your photographic skill will really make those designs pop.

Brilliant! Proudly V-Town!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

The place is full of surprises and special people. Thanks, Ryan!

So proud of our little town "Vereeniging" with its rich history and heritage

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Rightly so.

Excellent. I share your feelings as to this site being preserved. There is certainly no desire or inclination by the current political powers to preserve this heritage, so it is up to the citizens and private enterprise.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I agree. All the sites are showing signs of neglect. Hopefully this video will help spread the word before the rock art disappears.

Please include the Witkop blockhouse in your travels. I clambered all over it in younger days, from lying prone in one of the sunken firing positions, to the very rafters and the lookout, which was not re-built after the tornado took the roof off.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff, is that the blockhouse you can see from the highway? I definitely want to include more trips to Anglo-Boer war sites. Thanks for your comment.

cheers, Al, great story and well told, as usual 😊

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Rod! I appreciate the encouragement. I hope you get the opportunity to visit the place.

Great episode , Al! Thank you.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the compliment.

Thank you very much for the intetesing informative video. Of particular interest to me as I was born at Redan.

Super interesting Al. Keep doing what you are doing. This will become a definitive resource for information on many important moments in our history.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your gracious comment! I'm just connecting with the amazing stories that are already there.

Thanks for this info. It must be shouted out. I never heard of it. And yes, it must be protected.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100%. Thanks.

I have been to all of the places you've shown us. I had to get permission from the local primary shool to gain access to the petroglyphs. I spent a lot of time in the museum, and visited the site of the peace negotiatios on the v d byl road, and even got access into the building. BTW, peace was negotiated there and signed in Melrose house Pretoria, just before midnight on 31st May 1902. I found the Sharpville memorial quite moving, with it's trickle of water berween the rows of pillars, each of which bears a plaque with a single name on it. Your vid shows long grass and neglect?

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff, you're right about the signing of the treaty. My mistake. Unfortunately all the monuments have been sadly neglected, even the Sharpeville site. The water doesn't flow anymore. The museum is also badly run down. Staff members who actually work there are friendly and eager, but I'm guessing the money isn't reaching them.

Great content. Thanks!

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. Glad you're enjoying. Please feel free to browse the other episodes.

Hi Al, please research a place called Driekopseiland. It lies just "off the highway" between Kimberley and Christiana, about 2 to 3km along the Plooysburg turn off. There are over 3000 rock engravings in the glaciated andesite bed of the Rietrivier. Around 90% of the engravings are also abstract and very simmilar in design to the ones shown in this video. It will be worth the effort.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

That sounds fascinating. I'll definitely research it. Thanks for the heads up. 🙏

There are more petrigraphs on a small rock island in the Vaal River upstream from the Ascot bridge

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I hope those are being preserved. Gives more weight to the theory that water plays an important part.

Do you have a show on the dinasour footprints of Vereeniging *?

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Hi, no this is the first I hear of them. Thanks for the tip. I'll do some research. Vereeniging turns out to be even more interesting.

Why do more people not watch this show?

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I love that you're enjoying "Just Off the Highway". Viewership is still small because it's my solo project without media/corporate backing, but we're growing steadily. If you enjoy the episodes, please spread the word. 👍

1971 declaired a national monument during apartheid..It shows how important it is. So instead of changing the names of roads,places etc. Use the money to protect and preserved places like this. Its so sad to see the History lost for future generations.

@JustOfftheHighway

Ай бұрын

Agreed. Real conservation vs cosmetic.

@belindawilson1350

Ай бұрын

@@JustOfftheHighway Exactly.

Based on the rate of deterioration clearly not as old as stated. Max 300 years old.

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your certainty.

Bless Bridges ? Worth it ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JustOfftheHighway

Жыл бұрын

Bonus info. 😎

Oh my!!! Sooo boring!!!!