Die Overberg het definitief nie \u2019n tekort aan staaltjies nie \u2013 van walvis-stories tot kuiers op plase en nog meer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een so \u2019n storie is \u201cVissers en skuit ry perd op walvis se rug\u201d, wat op 12 Mei 1960 in Die Burger<\/i> verskyn het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit lui so: \u201c \u2019n Spelerige walvis het mnr. W.H. Steinberg en twee kleurlinge, Reginald en Frits, gister groot skrik op die lyf gejaag toe dit die skuitjie waarmee hulle visgevang het, uit die water opgelig het. Die skuitjie was \u2019n paar oomblikke op die walvis se rug voordat dit afgegly en in die see teruggeplons het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMnr. Steinberg, wat vir plesier visvang, was op soek na snoek, wat die laaste paar dae hier goed byt. Hy en die twee kleurlinge was in \u2019n skuit van twaalf voet met \u2019n buiteboordmasjien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy vertel dat die water troebel, maar kalm was en dat hulle doodgerus in die lekker sonskyn rondgevaar het om na tekens van snoek te soek. Skielik was hulle nie langer in die see nie, maar met skuit en al \u2019n paar voet in die lug bo die water. \u2019n Paar oomblikke het die skuit bo die geweldige dierasie \u2018gehang\u2019 en toe stadig water toe gegly. Toe eers het die drie mans besef dat hulle op die rug van \u2019n walvis was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie skuit het skeef van die walvis se rug afgegly en heelwat water geskep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al drie moes styf vasklou om nie uit te val nie. Die rug van die walvis, wat langs die skuit geswem het, was toe nog sowat drie voet bo die water. \u2019n Rukkie later het hy weggeduik en hulle het hom nie weer gesien nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMnr. Steinberg vertel dat toe hulle op die walvis se rug te lande kom, hy \u2019n harde gebrul gehoor het, maar dit het alles so gou gegaan dat hy nie weet of dit die walvis was wat die geluid gemaak het of die buiteboordmasjien nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAl drie mans was waternat. Hulle moes eers die skuit leeg skep voordat hulle verder kon visvang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKort daarna het hulle vyf walvisse in die nabyheid gesien. Die grotes het die skuit met rus gelaat. Die kleurlinge het aan mnr. Steinberg ges\u00ea dat hulle maar liewer nie see toe wil gaan solank die walvisse hier rondswem nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSover vasgestel kon word, is mnr. Steinberg-hulle die eerste mense op Hermanus wat op \u2019n walvis se rug gery het.\u201d.<\/span> In nog \u2019n skrywe op \u2019n reisblog deur Eleanor Damon skryf sy: \u201cEk het saam met my oupa Ed in Duitsland grootgeword. Ouma Juna was toe al oorlede en ek kan haar nie onthou nie. Oupa het daarna by ons kom bly. Hy het my die wonderlikste stories oor Afrika vertel \u2013 veral oor Ouma, sy groot liefde, die oorlog en sy vlug na Duitsland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs hy eers begin sing \u2018Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten Dass Ich so traurig bin . . .\u2019 weet ek dat hy na haar en sy geboorteland verlang. As hy dan begin vertel oor hul ontmoeting in Westcliff skitter sy o\u00eb soos diamante en rol die trane vrylik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLuister mooi, Kindjie \u2013 jou ouma was die mooiste mens wat ek ooit geken het. Dit was net so n\u00e1 die Anglo-Boere-oorlog dat ek my so verboos het vir die onregverdigheid van mense. Ons het hard geveg, die oorlog gewen en toe ons medaljes moes kry, is ons hare kwansuis nie goed genoeg nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c \u2018Hare, Oupa?\u2019 \u2018Ja, hare. Kyk altyd na mense se hare. In my land, Mzanzi, is hare baie belangrik. Daar is kroes, krullerig, glad, geel, swart en rooi hare. Ek stam uit die krulhaarmense. Jy moet my belowe, al lewe ek nie meer nie, dat jy jou ouma se mense sal gaan soek op Westcliff.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c \u2018Waar is Westcliff, Oupa?\u2019 \u2018Dis in \u2019n dorpie, Hermanus, langs die see. Hulle noem dit die walvisw\u00eareld. Dis \u2019n plek waar daar \u2019n treinstasie is sonder \u2019n treinspoor.\u2019 As hy dit vertel, lag hy dat hy krul van lekkerte. Hy het Ouma altyd daaroor geterg, s\u00ea hy. Dan het sy hom in hul moedertaal slegges\u00ea sodat Westcliff se see hom nie sou kon afwas nie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c \u2018Die mooiste plek op aarde, s\u00ea ek jou. Ek los vir jou genoeg geld en jy koop vir jou \u2019n huis daar en jy vertel die mense daar dat jou oupa sy bruid daar kom haal het. Maar, ek moet jou waarsku \u2013 die geelhaarmense glimlag, maar lag nie. Hul o\u00eb is leeg. Die kroeshaarmense praat net met hul eie mense en hulle is baie hardwerkend. Die krulhaarmense praat en lag met almal. Hulle is die vissermanne en hulle het warm harte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c \u2018Toe ek met jou ouma daar weg is, het ek myself belowe om nooit terug te gaan nie. Maar noudat ek oud geword het, wil ek h\u00ea jy moet gaan kyk wat ek gesien het en waar ek my hart verloor het.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit was twintig jaar gelede. Oupa Ed het gesterf en in sy testament het hy vir my \u2019n groot som geld gelos met die voorwaarde dat ek \u2019n huis in Westcliff moes koop. Ek was gevestig en gelukkig en het nooit gedink ek sal Oupa se wense waar maak nie. Ek het alles verkoop en Westcliff toe gegaan toe ek per toeval \u2019n advertensie in die plaaslike koerant sien:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c \u2018Dis nie waar nie. Oupa, doen jy dit nou so? As ek moet gaan, moet ek gaan. Die koop is afgehandel en ek land met net twee tasse klere om my nuwe lewe te begin. Julle, die w\u00eareld is verby mooi en die geld nog mooier. Dis glad twintig keer meer werd in my nuwe land. Hier wil ek sterwe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy eerste uitstappie is vir kos. Oral in die restaurante en op die sypaadjies sit mense lustig en eet. Toe ek na my sitplek gewys word, kom ek agter dat iewers hier \u2019n orde is wat ek vaagweg uit Oupa se vertellings onthou. Die geelhaarmense eet en die krul- en kroeshaarmense bedien. Almal praat egter dieselfde taal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk sal baie vinnig hierdie taal moet leer, anders sal ek nie die mense verstaan nie. N\u00e1 my ete vra ek in my mooiste Engels waar ek inkopies kan doen. In die supermark merk ek dieselfde orde op. Hierdie keer is die geelhaarmense die supervisors<\/i>, terwyl die res van die personeel die mense bedien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk keer met \u2019n verwarde gemoed terug huis toe. Sien ek dinge raak wat nie bestaan nie, of is dit die onregverdigheid waarvan my oupa my vertel het? Ek probeer hierdie gedagtes uit my kop kry deur \u2019n staptog deur die buurt te neem. As dit is soos Oupa my vertel het, sal ek rondvra waar Ouma Juna se mense bly en so met my familie herenig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk waai by \u2019n kafee in en vra uit oor my mense. Die dame agter die toonbank kyk my met groot verbasing aan. Ek weet nie of ek dalk \u2019n fout gemaak het en of ek miskien onwetend gevloek het nie. N\u00e1 \u2019n rukkie van stilte probeer sy my in gebroke Engels vertel dat die krulhaarmense nie meer in Westcliff bly nie. Hulle is verskuif na Mount Pleasant. Ek moet daar by die skool of kerk navrae doen en ek sal definitief my mense kry. 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Ek wil haar nog vra om my haar taal te leer, en hoe verskuif \u2019n mens \u2019n mens, maar dit sal moet wag tot \u2019n volgende keer.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die Overberg het definitief nie \u2019n tekort aan staaltjies nie \u2013 van walvis-stories tot kuiers op plase en nog 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TE KOOP IN WESTCLIFF, HERMANUS!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n