Die bekende oudonderwyser TC Fortuin is Woensdag 5 Februarie in die ouderdom van 71 jaar oorlede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terrance Carltan Fortuin, alombekend as TC, is op 27 September 1953 in Caledon gebore, waar hy sy skooljare aan Swartberg Prim\u00ear en Swartberg Sekond\u00ear deurgebring het. Na afloop van sy skoolloopbaan het hy hom as onderwyser aan die Onderwyskollege-Suid-Kaap (OKSK) in Oudtshoorn bekwaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buiten een jaar as onderwyser in Montague was TC vir 36 jaar \u2013 sy hele loopbaan \u2013 as onderwyser aan Swartberg Prim\u00ear verbonde, waar hy wiskunde en wetenskap as hoofvakke onderrig het en later ook departementshoof was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TC het sy vrou, Lesie, wat \u2019n kranige atleet was, op \u2019n atletiektoer ontmoet en hulle is op 19 September 1981 in Worcester, Lesi se tuisdorp, in die eg verbind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel TC nie self \u2019n atleet was nie, was hy baie betrokke by atletiek en het in verskeie atletiekkomitees gedien. Hy het in die nasionale beamptes-komitee as hooftydhouer gedien en het beamptes landwyd opgelei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy dogter Thelitia Fortuin s\u00ea: \u201cMy pa was baie liefdevol en ek kon altyd openlik met hom praat. Wanneer iemand my te na gekom het, het hy altyd ges\u00ea ek moenie dat s\u00f3 iemand op my hart [trap] nie. Ek moet vergeet en vergewe en [hom of haar] altyd groet. Al groet [hulle] nie terug nie, groet net weer. Dit was vir hom baie belangrik. Hy het ook altyd \u2019n ding uitgepraat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy pa was \u2019n pen-en-papier-mens. Hy was \u2019n gemeenskapsmens wat nou betrokke was by welsynorganisasies, waar hy hul finansies behartig het. Hy was ook vir jare by die Caledon-rugbyklub betrokke,\u201d s\u00ea Thelitia. \u201cHy het \u2019n goeie sin vir humor gehad. Soms het hy maar \u2019n flou grappie vertel en dan breek hy homself daaroor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TC se vrou, Lesie, vertel: \u201cHy het die leerders in sy klas soos sy eie kinders in die huis behandel en almal so hanteer. Hy was baie tegemoetkomend. Hy was \u2019n onderwyser en hy was ook \u2019n pa vir al sy leerders. Hy was \u2019n nederige mens. Dit wat hy gedoen het, het hy na die beste van sy vermo\u00eb gedoen. Hy het alles gegee \u2013 in sy skoolwerk asook in sy atletiek. Hy was die gom wat ons hele familie bymekaargehou het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keith Hendricks, oudskoolhoof van Swartberg Prim\u00ear en jare lange kollega van TC, het in sy huldeblyk tydens TC se begrafnisdiens, wat Saterdag 15 Febraurie in die Holy Trinity Anglikaanse kerk plaasgevind het, ges\u00ea: \u201cTC as mens het saggeaard voorgekom, maar hy kon by tye \u2019n regte korrelkop wees. Wanneer hy \u2019n taak aangepak het, het hy dit voltooi en sy beste gegee. Sy vermo\u00eb om \u2019n atletiekbyeenkoms te re\u00ebl, was van onskatbare waarde. Saam het ons ook vir etlike jare die Caledon-Genadendal-marathon gere\u00ebl.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Swartberg Prim\u00ear-onderwyser Malinda Booysen s\u00ea: \u201cMnr. Fortuin was \u2019n opvoeder terwyl ek \u2019n leerder by Swartberg Prim\u00ear was. Hy was my verspring-afrigter en danksy hom het ek tot by Suid-Boland gevorder. Ek het in Julie 1992 as onderwyser by Swartberg Prim\u00ear aangesluit en vir 22 jaar was TC en ek kollegas tot sy uitdienstrede in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSaam het ons atletiekbyeenkomste bygewoon en TC het atletiekklinieke gere\u00ebl. Hy het my aangemoedig om saam met hom as beampte by Suid-Boland, Boland en selfs by die SA kampioenskap op te tree. Onder sy leiding het ek ook baie geleer terwyl ek tesourier van die Boland-skole se vlugbal was. Hy het my geleer hoe om noukeurig van elke sent rekenskap te gee,\u201d noem Booysen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVir jare het ek en my man, Nelson, en TC en Lesie elke oggend vyfuur van Bergsig af deur die dorp en weer terug gestap, want ons moes nog regmaak om betyds by die skool te wees,\u201d s\u00ea Booysen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJa, TC, my kollega, vriend en mentor \u2013 ek het soveel mooi herinneringe om te koester en ek kon nie vir beter gevra het nie. Ek mis jou, maar gun jou die ewige rus,\u201d noem Booysen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TC het \u2019n besonderse liefde vir sy oudkollege gehad en het gereeld re\u00fcnies bygewoon. Hy het juis uitgesien na hierdie jaar se re\u00fcnie wat hy wou bywoon, maar ongelukkig was dit hom nie beskore nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TC was kap\u00e8lvoog van die Holy Trinity-kerk en het tot Desember 2024 na hul geldsake omgesien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
TC word oorleef deur sy vrou, Lesie, dogters Thelitia Fortuin en Shantley Joorst, skoonseun Burton Joorst, twee kleinkinders en broer, Wilfred Fortuin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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