Dit is nou al meer as sewe weke vandat die oorstromings die Overberg letterlik lamgel\u00ea het \u2013 mense is dakloos gelaat, paaie is gesluit en sakeondernemings trek swaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van die streke wat seker die hardste getref is, is die Hemel-en-Aarde-vallei, soos die wynplase en ondernemings op die R320 tussen Caledon en Hermanus. \u2019n Mens kry nie net w\u00eareldbekende en bekroonde wynplase op di\u00e9 pad nie, maar ook padstalle en ander vakansieplekke wat van die toerismebedryf afhanklik is en die sluiting van die pad en die ompad via Karwyderskraal het \u2019n noemenswaardige ekonomiese invloed op hulle gehad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het die afgelope tyd minder voete by ons gehad en dit maak dit baie moeilik. Eers was dit die Covid-19-pandemie wat ons in 2020 en 2021 beetgekry en \u2019n groot uitwerking op die wynbedryf gehad het, en nou die sluiting van die pad n\u00e1 die oorstromings,\u201d het Lizette K\u00fchn, uitvoer- en verkoopbestuurder van die gesogte wynlandgoed Bouchard Finlayson, ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens haar het hulle al pleidooie na Alan Winde, die premier van die Wes-Kaap, gerig om die pad so gou as moontlik te herstel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het wel \u2019n vo\u00ebltjie hoor fluit dat een baan van die pad dalk binne die volgende twee weke gaan oopmaak. Ons hoop werklik so aangesien dit vir almal \u2019n baie moeilike tyd is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy s\u00ea ook hulle het wel planne beraam om iets vir die Desember-vakansie te doen. \u201cOns beplan \u2019n opwip-proelokaal in die middel van Hermanus waar besoekers kan kom wynproe en aankope doen. Ons glo so iets kan werk om net meer blootstelling vir die wynplaas te gee. Die ideaal is natuurlik dat besoekers die plaas met sy asemrowende uitsig en historiese erfenis kom besoek en die keldertoer bly \u2019n belewenis, maar die opwipwinkel glo ek sal nie net voete na die plaas lok nie, maar ons ook baie blootstelling gee,\u201d het Lizette ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Wayne van den Heuvel, hoofbestuurder van La Vierge op die Hemel-en-Aarde-pad, het die oorstromings in September op \u2019n baie ongele\u00eb tyd gekom. \u201cOns is besig om gereed te maak vir die somer en die Kerstyd en die oorstromings het ook skade aan ons infrastruktuur aangebring, maar ons glo ons sal binne die volgende twee weke alles herstel h\u00ea en sal sake kan doen soos in die verlede. Ek kan dit nie genoeg beklemtoon nie \u2013 as dit nie vir die ongelooflike span van La Vierge was nie, sou ons dit nie kon regkry nie,\u201d het Wayne ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea verder die besoekers aan die proelokaal en restaurant het ook drasties verminder nadat die pad gesluit is. \u201cOns het na alternatiewe oplossings soos \u2019n opwip-proelokaal in Hermanus gekyk, maar die onsekerheid oor wanneer die R320 en die N2 sal oopmaak, die koste en regulasies van tydelike dranklisensies en die arbeidskwessies, het dit vir ons baie moeilik gemaak,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom gaan hulle nou fokus om meer voete op die plaas te kry. \u201cOns het ons wynproe- en -paring se spyskaart aangepas en ons is besig om \u2019n kalender vir die besige tyd saam te stel. Verder het ons ook die tyd gebruik om ons personeel wat in die proelokaal werk, op te lei sodat ons die beste kli\u00ebntediens daar kan stel en ons kli\u00ebnte met ope arms sal kan verwelkom. Die beplanning en opleiding help ook dat ons almal positief bly.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom het sakeondernemings in die dorp ook na hulle uitgereik en het hulle hul venues aangebied om wynproe\u00eb te hou. \u201cEk wil dit weer beklemtoon dat ons uitsien na die besige seisoen en dat ons ons gaste met ope arms verwelkom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clinton Lerm, \u2019n raadslid van die Overstrand-munisipaliteit, het ook op Facebook ges\u00ea die kontrakteurs is hard aan die werk op die R320 en \u201cdie verwagting is dat \u2019n stop-en-ry-stelsel binnekort daargestel gaan word\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom is \u2019n datum nog nie bekend nie en \u2019n persverklaring sal uitgereik word sodra die pad oop is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teen druktyd kon niemand nog bevestig wanneer die pad oopgestel gaan word nie. .<\/span> La Vierge: 028 313 2007.<\/span> Bouchard Finlayson: 028 312 3515<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dit is nou al meer as sewe weke vandat die oorstromings die Overberg letterlik lamgel\u00ea het \u2013 mense is dakloos gelaat, paaie is gesluit en sakeondernemings trek 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