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Monday, May 17, 2010

Anyone in SA remember the mid 80's SABC series The Volunteers?


It was on the far bank of this river in the photo, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, that the SABC series The Volunteers was filmed in the mid 1980's.  A group of "volunteers" lived like the 1820 settlers - I remember how they ended up arguing and moaning so much.  Took this photo in 1985 on a standard 9 (grade 11) school English trip to Grahamstown and surrounding areas.  We walked down a long road off to the right of where this photo was taken from, and jumped across rocks and used a little canoe (I think, was some time back now!) to get to the other side of the river and go look at the area where The Volunteers had lived, during the SABC filming of the series.  Everything had basically been removed already, but, having had enjoyed the South African tv series, it was kinda cool to be standing exactly where The Volunteers had lived, and had been filmed.
(post by Terry)

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