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 Posted: 17:13 - 22 Jul 2012  Post subject: 550 km Ride across the Western Transvaal |
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Today I did a 550 km loop across the western Transvaal, almost to the Botswana border. That part of the country is ultra conservative. Eugene Terreblanche, AWB, and General De La Rey country. They still refuse to speak english in some parts and I don't think they have surrendered to the British yet from the Boer war LOL 
It is one of the big maize growing regions, which is used to make mealie meal; the darkies staple diet. With the killing of white farmers and emigration, SA which was once a food exporter, and exported mealie meal to africa, now has to import food. What will they do if they manage to chase out whites? Starve like the rest of africa and rely on foreign aid?
The trip has me heading first towards Krugersdorp, which is just tar, brain dead, and full of weekend warrior street bikers out for their sunday breakfast runs.
From there I head to Magaliesburg and the Cradle of Humankind, where they find all those bones of human ancestors. Why do they need to dig? if they want to find the missing link, it is alive and well running around all over africa. Those missus Pless monkey people would not be shocked that millions of years later one branch of humanity reached an evolutionary dead end: never invented the wheel, never impounded, diverted or pumped water, and still carried it on their heads (In 3000 BC in mesopotamia they were pumping water, digging canals. Aztecs piped water. Only in africa did they not divert water). They never created a written language so are trapped in prehistory, never invented a counting system or mathematics, have no words for concepts, never domesticated a beast of bruden and relied on slaves carrying things on their backs and heads, never even invented a bow and arrow and were still killing each other with sticks and stones and spears. That they do well. Shaka managed to kill 30 million in years with these primitive methods, depopulating southern africa it is called the Mfecane. Who ever was left alive fled north, hence the Boers found empty land when they moved into the Free state and the Transvaal. Shaka tried his games on the Boers but had his arse kicked solidly. Later the british also kicked his arse when he tried his butchering ways on them.
The closest people to these ancestors would be the San. They are not related to negroids and funny enough their closed ancestors are the Abos of australia. I wonder how that worked. The negros moving south wiped out the San, killing them or interbreeding. Many Xhosas have San like features, like Nelson Mandela. The Xhosa language has the clicks like the San language. The Xhosa are not really a tribe in the cultural sense. They are the Australia of Afica. They are an off shoot of the Zulus. The Zulus didnt have prisons; they kicked out all their shit, the liars, rapists, thieves the lazy and eexpelled them south to form new colonies. Sort of like the Brist sneding their convicts to Oz.
The Xhosas were the first Blacks the Boers met 150 years after arriving in Africa. They found them to be thieves, liars, lazy and cattle rustlers. The ANC top rank is largely made of up of Xhosas, where they continue to steal, pilfer, rob, rape, and being lazy. Amongst Blacks Xhosas are considered the worst, even worse than nigerians.
Anyway, after leaving the Cradle I head to Derby then Koster, across mielie fields and Bonsara cattle.
After Koster I turn off onto the gravel. It is quite yellow brown and bleak in winter
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00225.jpg
Typical western transvaal farm
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00226.jpg
The scenery is flat and a bit sandy as it is the margin of the Kalahari sands
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00227.jpg
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https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00230.jpg
Thr riding can be quite treacherous. The road can be solid, then all off a sudden you hit patches of deep loose sand and your bars start to headshake. You have to avoid braking and power through
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00231.jpg
As I get further west the scenery becomes hilly and bushveld.
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00232.jpg
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00233.jpg
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| Posted: 17:35 - 22 Jul 2012 Post subject: |
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In Groot Marico I also stop at a butchery to get biltong for later. The butcher shop reminds me of my home town, with 2 doors; one for whites and one for blacks. On the black side of the shop there are the cuts of meat blacks want, like runners, tripe, stewing beef, goat, chicken. On the white side, the meat whites want: chops, steaks, kudu and game, biltong, boerewors sosaties. And each served by his own in his own language. Nothing has changed nor will it. No one wants it to. It works this way. The only ones complaining are liberals 1000s of km away who dont have to live here, and the Ja Stemmers who voted yes then ran away to england and australia because they dont want to live with the consequences of their vote.
The last time I was in my home town, the butchery still had 2 doors and blacks stayed on their side where their cuts of meat are, and where they got served in their language. White and black would burst out in laughter in some liberal took offence. The western transvaal works the same way.
After biltong and getting fuel, time for lunch
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00245.jpg
A 750 g Rooibok steak and no green to be seen 
https://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/hvandermerwe62/western%20transvaal/IMG-20120722-00246.jpg
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That steak looks awesome! 
Really interesting write up and fab pics. There's so much wild space out there.
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This is brilliant. Cheers.  
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there is something to be said for a joy of biking many miss out on. When it is really cold, or when it is raining heavy, and you pull up at traffic lights and cagers stare out at you through fogged up glass as if you are insane, you grin back, wave, and are gone, and you feel good. Like, i could also be cooped up in a cage but I choose not to.
I can get home and change into dry clothes. They cannot get back time they lost in traffic. And they are breathing their own air they exhale.
Biking has many rewards.
Did you see my visor tied on the back of the bike? LOL. One of the pins holding it in must must have vibrated loose and fallen out, so i had to remove it. I had to complete the ride with no visor and the helmet peak rattling in the wind......
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I didn't notice the visor..
Reminds me of a time I was filming a 4 way team (skydive)...
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I am not scared...
Bike envy tho... I crave the open space that i used to get goign out on the horses. . .
Going out this evening on mine... childless and manless- what bliss
OH and that steak has made me huingry.. |
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| MissEd wrote: | I am not scared...
Bike envy tho... I crave the open space that i used to get goign out on the horses. . .
Going out this evening on mine... childless and manless- what bliss
OH and that steak has made me huingry.. |
Well you always welcome to return.
Single life is lekka ne? As much as I enjoy my kids, biking is limited to commutng when they stay home alone, or taking my son while my daughter trains.
I get bike DTs. Miss the open stretches. I can barely go 2 days without riding.
Ja, devouring the hind quarter of an impala with a few beers....cant do that where you are.
I prefer kudu and ostrich though.
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Meh...
I have some kangaroo steak in the fridge... does that count? |
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