Eunice and Leon Movsowitz arrived in Upington in the middle of February 1959 to join the general practice of late Dr Abe Cohen in Schroder Street, Upington. They went directly to their home which was attached to the practice and located there.

At that time there were 9 general practitioners in Upington. They all admitted from their rooms and attended to patients at Gordonia Hospital.

They administered anaesthetics and did surgical procedures to the best of their ability. More complex cases were referred to Somerset Hospital or Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

In those apartheid years they attended to both White and very many Non-Whites in their consulting rooms. Patients were treated equally no matter who they were and many without being charged a fee. The doctors dispensed their own medicine. The cost of a consultation including medicine was 5 shillings and perhaps double that or a little more for people who could afford more. In the early 1960's before the SA Rand was introduced Leon charged 1 guinea for general anaesthesia and 1 guinea for an operation such as a tonsillectomy.

He also had a small Railway practice. There were no specialists in Upington in those days.

Dr Abe Cohen left in 1963 to join his brother-in-law Dr Ronnie Robinson in Cape Town. Leon continued on his own until the end of 1973 when he and Eunice decided to move to Cape Town for the further education of their children and for Leon to specialize in Paediatrics.

All their 4 children, Roy, Colin, Herman and Tanya, were born in Upington. Roy celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah in Cape Town in October 1972, the year before the family left Upington permanently. His Bar-Mitzvah cake, in the shape of a Torah showing the first sentence of his Parsha, Noach, was made by Yetty Lenhoff.

Roy Movsowitz at his Bar-Mitzvah, October 1972