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scot47
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject: OSAS - Zambia etc |
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Overseas Service Aid Scheme run by the UK Ministry of Overseas Development (later ODA). Any survivors out there ? I believe OSAS in Zambia was finally wound up a few years ago. I was there in the 1970s.
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scot47
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Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose the veterans are starting to fade away now ! I often feel that I do not have long to go ! Samfya and Mkushi in the 1970s ! |
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Axel Heidsman
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Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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After a brief sojourn at Chipembi Girls Secondary in 1971, I had ten very happy years at Kalabo, Zambezi and Chadiza. I was surprised to find another old Chadiza hand at KFUPM: John McLeod. I was even more surprised to discover that John's sister Kathleen was the nurse I had known in Zambezi. Small world! |
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scot47
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Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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John was a rather tactiturn colleague of mine at KFUPM. I did not know of his Zambian past. I was in Luapula Province and then at Nkumbi International College |
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scot47
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:57 am Post subject: |
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To my surprise I discovered that ex-teachers at Samfya Secondary have regular meet-ups - but not in Zambia which all have put behind them in their "career development" !
Last year they had a jolly in Moscow ! This could help to "prove" that the struggle for African Independence was a communist plot engineered by the evil Russians. I still come across this idea from old Africa hands. |
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Axel Heidsman
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:57 pm Post subject: OSAS Zambia |
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There are still two English teachers at KFUPM who began their 'careers' in Zambia: 'Taffy' Abdullah Mohammad, who taught at Namwala Sec, and myself. Taffy can still do justice to 'Tiyende Pamodzi' when the mood takes him. |
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scot47
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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I had not realised that Taffy Abdullah was ex-OSAS. I avoided contact with him. |
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