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		<title>Mail from Isak</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyknet is making a series on disasters in South Africa AND the PK is the first in their series which will be shown in January 2010, I contacted them via their adress on the blog and they took me
to Simonstown to shoot (whatever my experience was that day)the documentary on the Disaster of the PK [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=78&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Genevieve Bow on October 2, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all who have contributed to this forum
We are a Cape Town based production company who have been commissioned by kykNET to at last produce a project that has been very close to our hearts for some years. The theme of the 13 part series is South African disasters and we are beginning the series [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=77&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Pierre Massyn on August 31, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was conscripted from Windhoek, South West Africa (now Namibia) to Simonstown to start my National Service in in the Navy, in January 1972. My Service number is 69 22 57 46. I spent the last six months of 1972 on the PK as a chef, although my main tasks were devoted to washing dishes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=76&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Melt de Kock on August 12, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE LAST VOYAGE
One daybreak the dignified grey lady set sail
Proud and with many promised tomorrows of hope.
The water was mirror quiet of calmness
While the fresh breeze tickles her hair.
The sunset for the last time for the lady
as the night gleams with cold hopes.
The clouds crowded around the horizon
filled with furious howling winds.
Unaware of danger lifting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=75&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Werner van der Poll on June 22, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my father was on the president Kruger. unfortunately he died on the ship, hes was Evert Koen. 
So now im doing a bit of research on the whole incident for my own personal reasons. i was only 2 years old at that stage so couldnt remember much of what happend. 
if any body has some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=74&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Daniel Botha on March 17, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father was CPO Piet Botha on board that night. I was 4 years old when it happened. I remember my mother rushing out the house as soon as she had hear, crying her eyes out. 
My dad suffered terribly from PTSD, often waking up in the middle of the night, screaming – They’ve come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=73&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Nick De Villiers on January 30, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was Chief of the Watch in the Boiler-Room at the time of the collision.
I heard this dreadful sound which was metal tearing, then we lost all pressure out of the boiler’s which followed by the PK listing heavy to port side , by then we had lost power
supply ( elctricity ). I noticed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=72&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Col Theo Ligthelm on January 29, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are presently writing the study material for the new Emergency Care Technician Military Maritime Elective. This is the new 2-year National program replacing the old OECO program.
I have decided to use you as the character for the case study on rescue and boarding a rescue raft and using the sinking of the PK as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=71&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: By: Lawrence Batchelor on January 27, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was one of the national servicemen aboard at the time. I have no material on the incident. I am interested in making contact with others who were aboard to help refresh my memory
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		<title>Comment: By: Les Stokes on January 23, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was serving on Tafies at the time of the collision, as the chief stoker. I was awakened by the impact at 0355. MY cabin was on the funnel deck, by the engineers office. I went on deck &#38; P.K. was coming all the way down the port side of Tafies, scraping the side. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saspresidentkruger.wordpress.com&blog=4142204&post=69&subd=saspresidentkruger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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