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Alison Maloney

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Alison Maloney

Transvaal swimmer

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Ada Kok

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Ada Kok

Dutch swimmers visiting South Africa and Rhodesia

March 1963

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Swakopmund

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Swakopmund, SWA (Namibia)

In 1971, the mayor of Swakopmund, then, H.M.G. Deetlefs, was instrumental in getting the Administration to finance the construction of the Olympic-size swimming pool.

Through the Treaty of Versailles 1920, South Africa was under obligation to "develop Swakopmund as a modern holiday resort".

In March 1982, the South Africa Amateur Swimming Union took a team of swimmers from South Africa, Germany, Canada and the USA to compete in this pool.

The old municipal indoor and heated Olympic-sized swimming pool in Swakopmund was closed for good in March 2010. It appears to have been demolished in 2014.

Swakopmund old indoor Olympic swimming pool, being demolished in 2014.

Local champion and Springbok swimmer Dorothea Neumeister.

SWA and Namibian coach Larry Larsen

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Grande Hotel Beira

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Grande Hotel, Beira

Before independence, the Mozambican city of Beira was a popular holiday destination for Rhodesians. The 300km section of road from the border town of Umtali to Beira passed through Manica, Gondola and Vila Peri (Chimoio), which all boasted iconic swimming pools, often with diving boards.

Today (2025), some of those facilities have survived, but some have been destroyed. 

The Grande Hotel Beira is an abandoned luxury hotel in Beira, Mozambique. It was opened in 1954 and operated until 1974, when it was closed due to lack of guests.

Gondola, Mozambique

155km east of Beira lies the town of Gondola, which boasts the third-largest Olympic swimming pool in Mozambique. 

The opening of the Gondola swimming pool was attended by the Rhodesian swimming and diving teams.

A recent (2023) photo of the Godola pool. It seems to have been renovated.

Manica, Mozambique

Built in 1962. The town pool is 270km's west of Beira, along the road to the Rhodesian(Zimbabwe) border at Umtali.

Cabinda, Angola

Grandly labelled as the Piscina Olímpica Provincial, this 50 metre swimming pool lies abandoned.

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Jennie Maakal album

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Jenny Maakal album

Read more about Jenny here

Wikipedia:

Jenny Genoveva Maakal (2 August 1913 – 15 September 2002) was a South African freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

She was born in Rayton.

In the 1932 Olympics she won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle event and was sixth in the 100 m freestyle event.

Maakal also competed in the 1930 British Empire Games and swam in two finals. Four years later she won the silver medal in the 440 yards freestyle competition and as member of the South African team in the 4×110 yards freestyle relay contest.

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