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Strap in and get ready for a most interesting 100-year-old tour

Unraveling the mystery of Oom Willem's tour

By Andries van Zyl • 24 May 2025
Strap in and get ready for a most interesting 100-year-old tour

Join Oom Willem's century-old East African adventure! Help identify forgotten landmarks from Rhodesia northward. Use image search or AI for clues, then share your discoveries to piece together this historical journey.

We kick off Oom Willem’s tour with a trip up the East Coast of Africa. The movie clip, however, starts a little closer to home, with our intrepid tourists waiting for a train at a dusty station. Try as we might, we could not ascertain which station it is. Perhaps our local sleuths can shed more light on this.

Almost a minute into the reel, we find ourselves at another railway station, apparently the old Johannesburg Park Station. From there, Oom Willem and his party travel north, crossi...

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