In 1973 as pas aangestelde junior dosent in Unisa se departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, het ek met bonsende hart my eerste nagevorste voordrag gelewer. Die gehoor was al my Afrikaans-dosente \u2013 toe met my aanstelling meteens geleerde en hoogs ge\u00eberde kollegas vir wie se kennis en menswees ek soveel respek gehad het. Die onderwerp wat ek om watter rede ook al gekies het, was \u201cKerktale oor die w\u00eareld heen\u201d, wat ingesluit het die Slawonies-Ortodokse, Katolieke (Latyn) en ander liturgiese tale, selfs Ge\u2019ez, die Koptiese kerktaal tot vandag toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nooit het ek toe kon droom of dink dat daar tot op hede die groot voorreg van (mee)deel male sonder tal my aangebied of te beurt sou val nie. Oor die jare het die onderwerpe saam met die gehoor van voorkoms verander, maar was en is steeds histories begrond. Referate oor Afrikaanse taalkunde, Pleknaamkunde, Genealogie en Argiefdokument-ontsluiting wissel mekaar af. Die volgende paar van talle aanbiedings het \u2019n besondere indruk op my gemaak: \u201cAfrikaanse segskuns uit die natuur\u201d; \u201cValhalla \u2013 uniek in Suid Afrikaanse naamgewing\u201d; \u201c\u2019n Mandjie vol woordvrugte uit die Kompanjiestuin\u201d; \u201cOosterse adel aan die Kaap\u201d; \u201cCabo \u2013 van mense en hul plekke\u201d; \u201cDie Kaapse Argief en die begin van Afrikaans\u201d; \u201cIndigenous place names in VOC Cape documents\u201d, en \u201cPeople of the early Cape: what VOC documents reveal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gedagtig aan Augustus as internasionale maand van die vrou, noem ek graag die volgende onderwerpe wat vir my nie slegs verrykend was nie, maar my telkens met deernis en dikwels weemoed gevul het: \u201cOns was daar\u201d \u2013 \u2019n Boerefamilie se oorlogs- en kampervarings deur die o\u00eb van \u2019n kind\u201d (ter ere van en nagedagtenis aan my ouma as konsentrasiekamp-dogtertjie tydens die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog); die tragiese Hugenote-verhaal wat in Franschhoek afgespeel het: \u201cMaria Magdalena Marais van La Cotte\u201d; en nou onlangs die aanbieding onderskeidelik in Pinelands en Bredasdorp oor \u201cMaria van Riebeeck \u2013 \u2019n vrou van eerstes\u201d, onvolprese, dog onontbeerlike pilaar vir die Westerse grondlegging in samehang met die inheemse (Eva Krotoa) en Oosterse (Angela van Bengalen) teenwoordigheid aan die suidpunt van Afrika.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toe word ek uitgenooi deur die Agulhas Erfenisvereniging om, gedagtig aan Dias se verbyvaart en benoeming van die plek waar twee magtige oseane ineenvloei, \u2019n verbandhoudende praatjie te lewer. Wat \u2019n opdrag, wat \u2019n nuwe, ou w\u00eareld wat voor my oopgevou het \u2013 verrassings, verswe\u00eb kennis en onbeskrewe inligting het meteens gestalte aangeneem. Op 24 Mei vanjaar word \u201cPortugese kruisvaarders langs die Afrikaanse kus\u201d op L\u2019Agulhas voor \u2019n opreg gewaardeerde en waarderende gehoor voorgedra. Met di\u00e9 dat LitNet Akademies \u2019n uitgebreide voorlegging van hierdie lesing goedkeur vir publikasie later vanjaar, loop my beker oor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meteens besef ek dat die sirkel n\u00e1 verloop van 52 jaar rustig en sonder ophaal voltooi is: \u2019n lewensreis van liturgiese tale tot kruisvaarte met sterk religieuse begronding, wat volkome aansluit by ander onderwerpe van die hart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En in ootmoedigheid beleef ek weer eens die voorreg van (mee)deel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helena Liebenberg – bydrae gelewer vir Agulhas-erfenisvereniging\/Heritage Association<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1973 as pas aangestelde junior dosent in Unisa se departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, het ek met bonsende hart my eerste nagevorste voordrag gelewer. 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