Dit is in tye van nood dat mense saamstaan, en dis presies wat in die Overberg-distrik gesien is nadat re\u00ebn die afgelope week verwoesting gesaai het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nie net is inwoners van Grabouw, Villiersdorp, Botrivier en Kleinmond dae lank sonder enige elektrisiteit gelaat nie, maar huise moes ontruim word en mense wat afhanklik is van elektrisiteit, soos byvoorbeeld vir suurstof, se nood was baie groot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inwoners het hulle tot Facebook gewend vir hulp terwyl gemeenskapsaktiviste letterlik kniediep in die water was om mense te help. Munisipaliteite het ook hul gemeenskapsale oopgemaak vir mense wat deur die oorstromings geraak is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die humanit\u00eare noodlenigings\u00adorganisasie Gift of the Givers het Vrydag na Grabouw uitgereik om di\u00e9 wat in nood is, te help. \u201cAfgesien van die meer as 30 inwoners wat tans in gemeenskapsale gehuisves word, is nog 300 huishoudings deur die oorstromings geraak. Gift of the Givers het gelukkig kospakkies en komberse na di\u00e9 in nood uitgedeel,\u201d het \u2019n woordvoerder van die Theewaterskloof-munisipaliteit ges\u00ea. \u201cOns wil hulle en al die ander belanghebbende partye wat die nood verlig, vir hul hulp bedank.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die netbalklub in Grabouw, The Future Stars, is ook deur die re\u00ebn geraak en die klub, wat vanjaar vir die eerste keer aan die super-liga deelneem, se doelpale het met die re\u00ebn in die slag gebly. Soos in ander gevalle het hulle op Facebook uitgereik, en iemand het dadelik op die klub se noodroep gereageer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In nog \u2019n voorval in Grabouw het iemand dringend elektrisiteit vir sy suurstofmasjien nodig gehad. Die onderburgemeester van die TWK-munisipaliteit, John Michels \u2013 ook \u2019n inwoner van Grabouw \u2013 het op sy Facebookblad gevra of iemand kan help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die onselfsugtige optrede van Cornelius Lukas, ook van Grabouw, het die inwoner se lewe gered. \u201cCornelius Lukas \u2013 baie, baie dankie. Mag God jou ryklik se\u00ebn.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lukas woon ook in die omgewing in Melrose waar die krag af is. \u201cHy het ook nie krag nie, maar het nie twee keer gedink om sy kragopwekker aan die man wat 24 uur suurstof moet gebruik, te leen nie. Al versoek van hom was \u2013 en ek haal aan \u2013 \u2018kan ek dit net m\u00f4re gou terugkry vir die Springbok-wedstryd, dan kan julle dit daarna weer kom haal\u2019,\u201d het Michels op sy Facebookblad geskryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grabouw Spar en Victoria Fisheries het uit hul pad gegaan om die Eskom-tegnici te ondersteun wat die ekstra myl gestap het om die elektrisiteitsprobleem in Grabouw op te los. Koffie, kos en onder-steuning deur Arlene van Zyl, voorsitter van die Grabouw- en Elgin-belastingbeta-lersvereniging, het ook gehelp sodat Eskom-tegnici hul werk kon doen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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