Klerksdorp, North West! S1 - Ep 522

[@dawnbarnes1361]

Enjoyed Klerksdorp thank you so much ❤ Hope your sniffles cleared up!! Take care you beautiful people🙏💓

[@DustBugsTravel]

We had it quite bad, actually. 🤒🤧 I was a day behind Sonia, but I passed her and didn't feel great for a week or so. She was all better in three days. 😍

[@gertruidavanwyk2416]

Thank you for visiting our City of Matlosana! It was so refreshing to see our City through the lens of your camera and oh boy, I love my town all over again despite all the potholes. Thank you for all the energy you put into these videos❤

[@thewanderer58]

Wonderful visiting Klerksdorp again since my last visit around 1988 and to see the city intact. I was delighted to see the beautiful station building of 1898 unscathed and a functioning station. Both the Klerksdorp Dam and Nature Reserve were impressive. Look forward to the next port-o-call. Thank you.

[@williegeel313]

Intact?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@charlietreston4035]

Hi guys very impressed with klerksdorp city .more memories fantastic. When you said mining area that big mind dump brought back so many memories. The station building was stunning loved the palm tree to me it feels exotic. 1987 and the first white town north of the orange River. Your surprise breakfast place was very modern and the food looked great. Plenty of churches and schools loved the town hall building. The garden ornaments were brilliant plus the dog kennels. The vets sign blows my mind only in South Africa kudu cow cat dog .so amusing to me 15 kilometres from town a game park loved the trailer with the people having a party safari. The zebras running in a heard amazing. The dam caravan park and camping was so tranquil ideal spot to relax. The oldest street had some beautiful properties especially the big colonial style one the concentration camp memorial to the blacks is interesting and also the Jewish and Muslim cemeteries next to each other. Loved the history. Your accommodation was topnotch really big and very reasonable prices the story of the name so personal to the lady that's the small things you don't get anywhere but dustbugs. Thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one

[@lulamantshephe5595]

Did not know about the game drive, fantastic😂😂😂❤😊

[@beryl9538]

Totally blown away by the stone station building. All the animals an absolute bonus to see. Was just sad you couldnt go through the Cbd. Safety comes first. Safe travels.

[@aliraja2640]

Thanks to put me in this video❤

[@ElizeJansenvanRensburg]

Our museum is also a must see...so many history and proudness to explore!!

[@mzwandilejamesxanti7068]

Thank you so much friends, this is my hometown but now I reside in rustenburg, beautiful

[@tshephorailo6025]

I only visited Klerkdorp once, (family members) and I don't see how big the town is, thank you for showing us. ❤

[@marktintinger7492]

That water in the canal that you saw in Ventersdorp that was flowing so nice comes down via the Schoonspruit river into Klerksdorp dam over the little dam wall and onto the Vaal river at Orkney.😊

[@rosemarymoolman6765]

When my parents moved up to the "Transvaal" from the Strand in 1956/7, he worked on the mines at Harties, then Stilfontein. I loved this video. The station building is looking amazing. I love how you are both so passionate about the Railways and trains.

[@kennethdshort]

Hi Curtis , Sonia, Dusty, and Sandy, A highlight for me was your excitement at discovering that wonderful stone station that was intact. It is so rare to find a station building intact and a functioning station to boot Loved the game reserve too. What a surprising find with all the wildlife. I guess we are on our way to Orkney with the VisArend caravan park next

[@PulengPuleng-z9r]

Thanks for showing us klerksdorp that the nice place I'll go to see the dam

[@michaelstorm5299]

Hi Curtis and Sonia. My word, if I knew you were passing through Klerksdorp the past day, I would've stick both or you for lunch or dinner, or even better...a braai.😊 Groete uit Wilkoppies, Klerksdorp (ex-Durbanviller)

[@mphomavisrampou4205]

My home town, thanx for visiting

[@SihleTheOne]

Am from Klerksdorp and I had no idea Faan Meintjes has animals. Thanks for the plug, we just know the braai facilities.

[@samsonkjoseph6087]

Baie dankie vriende.

[@WandiMohadi]

❤❤❤my home town❤❤🎉

[@reatilekoketsomolatlhegi1068]

I think you went the wrong way when you left the station. The road is a 1-way traffic 😂😆 luckily the officers usually stationed that side weren't around

[@terrimeyer3815]

1897 ..... station well looked after. You see maintenance pays. Its stunning the station building. I wonder what the little one is used for. Coobah looks lovely. Very good price as well. That security guard has a brilliant idea. Nice to see the dam is full. It really is lovely there by the dam 🎉❤🎉 The game drive was impressive and value for money. My conclusion is Klerksdorp is ancient going to the 1837's. Was facinated by this old dorpie

[@DustBugsTravel]

Sonia is head-over-heels in love with that little stone building at the station. 😍 If I could pick it up and bring it home, she would've made me! I have absolutely no idea what it could've been used for back in the day, unless it were for guards or officials manning the entrance. It was just fantastic to round that corner and see this magnificent station building which has survived the test of time. They clearly look after the place and it definitely shows. Kudo's to the folks responsible! 🏛️👌🏻

[@terrimeyer3815]

@@DustBugsTravel yes i agree with soni.....cute verby.... just shows you. Maintenance plans are not a waste of time or money. That building flippen.....OLD

[@frederikbrits9559]

Stilfontein....the first owner of the farm 1843 was O Brits, my voortrekker grandfather, graves 3 km from town

[@teresagillmer9464]

Shame did the family keep the farm or what happened to it?

[@frederikbrits9559]

@@teresagillmer9464 not on the farm but still in the district. Farm nowadays commercial, mining and residential area

[@margaretuldwalt2371]

The mine tower that you saw when you entered Stilfontein was the first concert headgear in SA and was called Margaret shaft. My father and crew started sinking it in 1950. That is when Stilfontein was established.

[@nerinemartin5901]

Hi u two...All i cn say is tht we live in such a beautiful country ...i pray tht God will bless u to bring us many more beautiful videos ...❤😊❤

[@lourenscoetzee9817]

The way that that place went backwards, I''m glad I've relocated. And thinking of bad times had, I will never set foot in that shole again

[@DustBugsTravel]

😳

[@annawitter5161]

I have only heard the Afrikaans pronunciation. I grew up mostly English speaking but parents spoke Afrikaans and pronounced Afrikaans names the Afrikaans way. Like English should be said in the English way , like George and not Ge-orrgg. Love that station building 🏫 so beautiful still. And a choo-choo . 😮What a pity safety has become such an issue. Echinacea, vit c and zinc, is best for nipping a cold in the bud. If that doesn't help, then a goeie dop klippies in lemon and honey. Love the shapes of the trees at the dam. Some of them look like they are dancing. Lucky to see so many animals. Wildebeest with horns forward are gnus.

[@DustBugsTravel]

My Afrikaans father-in-law would agree with you wholeheartedly about the pronunciation of place (and other) names, but for many of us who grew up in families where only English was spoken the anglicised pronunciations were the order of the day and they stuck. No harm done though, 'Clarksdorp' and 'Klerksdorp' is and will always be the very same place. 😁 Sonia was over her sniffles in three days, but mine lasted a little longer. No matter what I try, it always gets me a little worse. 🤧🤒 Although I love honey, I've never been abler to do the lemon-and-honey thing though. 😣🍋🍯

[@annawitter5161]

@@DustBugsTravel you should have tried klippies! Works like a bomb for me, and doesn't have to be lemon and honey, just straight! 💋

[@Kobusprins]

I remember long time ago - i use to walk over that bridge at the station a lot to my fathers office - he worked for Transnet and there was a bar also just next to the station where we use to play pool - It is such a shame things are not the same anymore - Klerksdorp use to be such a beautiful place and you could walk in town at night in the CBD where the - very old Spur was and see all the lights during Christmas time - thank you for the video!!!

[@francoispieterse7371]

Zebra eat the long grass and Wildebeest short grass that is one of the reasons they travel together

[@deejay1313]

The station was (is?) a stopping point for the Premiere Class Train. Their colour scheme is purple, hence the purple flower pots on the platform.

[@DustBugsTravel]

The Premier Classe Train is no longer operational unfortunately. 😒🚉

[@louisevannieuwenhuizem1266]

Ek het in Wolmaransstad gebly en in Makwassie my kinderjare daar groot geword my Ma en broer bly nog daar my seun bly nog in Wollies maar ja ek bly nou in Ireland 🇮🇪 glad nie spyt nie geniet en wees versigtig

[@DustBugsTravel]

We thoroughly enjoyed our visits to Makwassie and Wolmaransstad too. I'm sure you've seen both those episodes, but if you haven't, you can check out Episodes 506 and 508. 🚙😁

[@louisevannieuwenhuizem1266]

@DustBugsTravel 😊 I busy watching it thank you

[@kevinfourie]

You passed OMV crushers,the mine shaft you saw was from Margaret shaft at the back of OMV crushers

[@rikagreyling6202]

You past us,here in Stilfontein⚡ Hope you're enjoying your trips. Klerksdorp turned to Matlosana😂 Enormous money in paperworks! Come again‼️

[@DustBugsTravel]

Perhaps one day, there was just not enough time to fit in every single place. 🚙🤷🏻‍♂️

[@pommie7]

On 54 minutes..Hendrik Potgieterstreet....do not WALK through...robbers and attackers get their signal when enter at the old sign: oldest street in Transvaal.....take care.

[@DustBugsTravel]

Thank you for the info. It was a stroke of luck that Sonia happened to see that sign and I'm very happy that we took a drive down that street. We saw quite a few folks out-and-about doing garden work and such and that was quite encouraging to see. 🚙🙂

[@michaelstorm5299]

@@pommie7 I noted that Dust Bugs (...I almost mis-typed it as DustNuts *lol*) visited Klerksdorp on a sleepy Sunday morning. No wonder the CBD was mostly desolated. A different story in a weekday.

[@SinethembaDonga]

That's my cityy❤🎉😅

[@LesediRangata]

You passed by my school ASHTON JOHN'S PRIVATE SCHOOL ❤

[@liziwekgokong8686]

Hello guys you missed our museum

[@christiaanpretorius-v3w]

Hi guys you should visit Klerksdorp again and we could meet up would love to share the story's of Openeimer as it was the old rugby field of Vaal Reefs Rugby and then Markotter Stadium Klerksdorp is die home of the Oldest Rugby Club in the North West as we turned 135 years old

[@DustBugsTravel]

Thanks, but we won't be visiting that part of the North West again soon. We're on a mission to see as many places, towns and cities in South Africa as we possibly can in the limited time we have on the road and there are just too many others waiting to be explored! 🚙😁 We've long ago made peace with the fact that we won't get to see or learn everything in any one place and we're totally cool with that.

[@ChristaGodley]

Hi baie dankie julle het baie daar deur gery kan nie eintlik iets onthou nie. Hoop julle word gou gesond. Wees veilig en ry versigtig. Groete

[@gennievandermerwe8819]

My ouma en oupa aan pa se kant is in die ou begrafplaas begrawe.

[@hermanprinsloo]

Pitty you rode past the old jail museum. Little bit of more homework will let you see more of what there is to see in this town of ours

[@DustBugsTravel]

You may be new to our channel and not know that we've always enjoyed exploring any city, town or place we visit on our own and love happening upon things, buildings and places which most folks would just drive by and not even consider interesting. We won't burden ourselves with 'homework' or any kind of extensive research before or during a trip, that would take all the fun out of finding things on our own. I love museums and have visited many in the 545 videos on our channel, but history is just one of a multitude of things we find fascinating, so it's all good if we don't get to see everything in a place. We prefer focusing on what we did get to see and I hope you at least enjoyed those! 🚙😁

[@BerylBerger-t4v]

Did you ever find the name of that church?👋hi guys

[@DustBugsTravel]

No, unfortunately not. ⛪

[@williegeel313]

You guys came surely at the wrong time

[@DustBugsTravel]

There's never a wrong time for us. 🚙😁 We have to travel when our life and work schedules allow it, so we take any place just as it comes.

[@societysista6187]

What the issue with CBD please?

[@DustBugsTravel]

We're from the Western Cape, so I have no idea. We were warned by several folks in towns we visited before Klerksdorp not to drive around in the CBD because of safety concerns. My wife and my safety are my top priority at all times, so I will always heed warnings like those, as sad as it may be. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@societysista6187]

@@DustBugsTravel thanks… was just curious as it looked fine 🙏🇬🇧

[@SiphiwoGiftSnymes]

@@societysista6187 There can sometimes be robbers , and I have to be honest, I haven't seen much of white folks around , not like in old days

[@angievanzuydam8543]

Incredibly dangerous. Been on the news on tv a couple of times.

[@tumelodihele72]

You seem to be avoiding Mafikeng

[@DustBugsTravel]

And you seem to be 'avoiding' any mention of the 22 places we did get to visit in the province! 🤷🏻‍♂️ For your info, I planned our route to put us in the towns in time for our booked, sponsored accommodation. I might decide to include Mahikeng on a future trip to the NW.

[@Hlokoza]

We are you from?

[@DustBugsTravel]

We live in Strand in the Western Cape. 😍