Die 52-jarige, wat hulde aan sy geliefde eggenoot van 27 jaar gebring het, is slegs die vyfde wat hierdie amp in die 97ste bestaansjaar van die brigade sal beklee. Die brigade is in Maart 1925 gestig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat merkwaardig is, is dat Konstabel ni\u00e9 \u2019n lid van die brigade se hoofraad was nie, maar is by die nasionale konferensie, wat in April in Kuilsrivier plaasgevind het, as \u2019n afgevaardigde van die Macassar-afdeling in die amp verkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benewens sy betrokkenheid in die kerk is di\u00e9 dinamiese leier betrokke op vele terreine in Macassar, sy geliefde gemeenskap. As voormalige kranige rugbyspeler is hy ook sameroeper en afrigter van Macassar \u201cFun & Fitness\u201d, \u2019n groep wat daagliks fiksheid-sessies vir plaaslike vroue aanbied. Hy dien ook as sekretaris en afrigter van die Macassar-rugbyklub se juniors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verder is hy ook \u2019n stigterslid van Macassar Our Pride, wat hom vir die opheffing van die gemeenskap beywer, met spesiale fokus op die jeug en bejaardes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Konstabel is in Worcester gebore en het op \u2019n wynlandgoed buite die dorp grootgeword. As enkelouer moes sy moeder alles in haar vermo\u00eb doen om hom en sy sibbe \u2019n ordentlike skoolopleiding te verseker. Konstabel, wat destyds ook in die sorg van sy ouer suster was, het na Macassar verhuis en in 1988 aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Macassar gematrikuleer. In sy tuisdorp het hy dadelik bekendheid verwerf as \u2019n kranige rugbyspeler en vir die Westelike Provinsie-skolespan asook die Macassar-rugbyklub se senior span uitgedraf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy moes weens finansi\u00eble omstandighede n\u00e1 skool begin werk, en het heelparty sake-diplomas deur sy werkgewers behaal. In hierdie tyd het hy \u2019n passie vir die sakew\u00eareld ontwikkel en hy is as bestuurder aangestel van die onderneming waar hy werksaam was. N\u00e1 sowat 14 jaar in die bedryf het Konstabel sy eie onderneming gestig en hy is deesdae die trotse eienaar van \u2019n vervoermaatskappy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Konstabel en sy vrou het in 2005 besluit om die brigade in hul gemeente op die been te bring nadat die kerkraad oorweeg het om dit te ontbind omdat daar nie genoeg belangstelling en groei was nie. In samewerking met kaptein Netta Marcus het die VGK-brigade egter stelselmatig die mas opgekom en is Konstabel as kaptein aangewys. As uitmuntende dril-instrukteur en danksy sy passie vir jongmense het die plaaslike kompanjie gou \u2019n hele aantal trofe\u00eb gewen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onder leiding van Konstabel en Marcus het die brigade enorme groei getoon en gereeld trofe\u00eb in streekkompetisies verwerf. Aangesien Konstabel reeds van \u2019n jong ouderdom \u2019n diepe verstaan van die organisasie se werksaamhede gehad het, is hy onder leiding van verskeie mentors spoedig in verskeie offisiersposisies bevorder \u2013 waaronder stafkaptein en majoor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Ring van Sarepta se genoemde Bataljon 11 het vir etlike jare die septer geswaai onder leiding van majoor Dyna Williams en stafkaptein Konstabel. N\u00e1 Williams se uittrede is Konstabel en Marcus (albei van die Macassar-kompanjie) tot majoor bevorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met die verloop van jare het Konstabel diep spore in die gemeenskap getrap en in verskeie senior hoedanighede in die gemeente en Ring van Sarepta gedien. Een van die vele hoogtepunte in sy lewe was toe hy benoem is om sy gemeente by die Algemene Sinode te verteenwoordig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy dien ook tans as kerkbe\u00adstuurder van sy gemeente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die seremonie is voorafgegaan deur die parade van honderde brigadelede van verskeie streke, wat deur di\u00e9 gemeenskap se strate gemarsjeer het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2019n Bekende van Macassar het geskiedenis gemaak toe hy in die 97ste bestaan van die Verenigde Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika (VGKSA) se Jeugbrigade die hoogste amp van kolonelkommandant as \u2019n dienende kolonel ontvang 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