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| Name |
Michael Lewis |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I4933 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
12 Mar 2024 |
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| Notes |
- I was then adopted out to the Lewis family who lived near Witbank, we moved to Witbank about a year later. I spent my time there up until high school, we then decided it would be better if I go to boarding school which was in Belfast. I thought it was a dump until I saw where you went to boarding school. Stayed there for two years and refused to go back as there was quite a bit of abuse going on there. You talk about being English in a predominantly Afrikaans society. Being 6”4, I did not get a lot of bullying from Afrikaans students (just a little) however there were some teachers who did not like us “Soaties” and being Jewish just put the cherry on the top.
At the beginning of the next year my parents also demanded that I go back to Belfast High (I did not disclose exactly what was happening there) so I packed a bag and hitch hiked to Durban. - Talk about rebel, I was often accused of being one. And the black sheep ????.
Anyway i had family in Durban - (My grandmother lived on the Marine Parade - damn those were nice holidays) and they spotted me there. Went back to school in Witbank and later found out the teachers that liked abusing us were expelled from the school so I could have gone back. (Hindsight is often a bugger ????)
Once I had completed St 8 I decided I would go work for a living and would finish schooling doing night classes. By then my parents had divorced by then and we weren’t seeing eye to eye anyway. Don’t what to seem ungrateful but quite often adoptive children are quite different to there adoptive parents. We were totally different ????.
I then started an apprenticeship at the steel works near Witbank and a year later started my army training.
Anyway carried on with life living between Witbank/Middleburg and met Marcel around 1995.
Growing up I enjoyed running so eventually landed up running marathons including a couple of comrades marathons. When I eventually landed up with too many sporting related injuries I included cycling as a sport and completed a couple of Argus bike tours in Cape town and some triathlons. I remember Warren saying he enjoyed cycling ?.
In 1981 I also injured myself by hitting truck whilst commuting home on my motor bike after work. I was only doing around 140km/h. (damn hooligan). Was very lucky as the Dr said I broke everything in my neck expect my spinal cord. Eventually I had a titanium swivel disk inserted in my neck as my disks were fusing themselves.
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(Age 72 years) 