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Port Elizabeth Floods 1968

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Rare video footage of the biggest natural disaster to hit a South African city – uploaded by Jerry Schuitema.

Looking at the footage I remember (or think I do!) standing at Fort Fredrick and looking down as the waters raged through the Baakens Valley whilst my parents told me about the previous flood when a horse ended up on top of the bus station below. I recall accompanying my late Father to his business premises in Neave Township and seeing dead dogs floating in Kempston Road and Cadle Street and dead cows in the river. I recall my brother upending buckets of water on himself as he crawled through our home.

Where were you during the floods of 1968?

Jerry Schuitema is an award winning journalist who spent more than 3 decades in the front line of business reporting and founded the transformation consultancy – Schuitema Associates

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.