Arnold van der Nest het vier jaar gelede gedink sy lewe het verander toe hy \u2019n werk en huisvesting in Paradisepark gekry het. Hy was voorheen op straat, werkloos en op die verkeerde pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het die Here gedank vir \u2019n tweede kans en gedink dit is \u2019n nuwe begin,\u201d vertel hy hartseer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar drie weke gelede het dit vir hierdie 52-jarige man van Hermanus weer gevoel asof alles om hom net inmekaargetuimel het toe hy op 22 Augustus uit sy huis in Paradisepark gesit is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het soos \u2019n misdadiger gevoel toe hulle daardie Maandag my meubels en al my besittings uit my huis gegooi het. Alles wat ek het, alles waarvoor ek so hard gewerk het, is net so op straat gegooi. Ek weet vir party mense is die bietjie wat ek het niks, maar dis my besittings; goed wat vir my belangrik is.\u201d S\u00f3 vertel Arnold van sy ondervinding toe die balju en wetstoepassers die inwoners wat op \u2019n lys was van di\u00e9 wat onregmatig in Paradisepark bly, uitgesit het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het n\u00earens om te gaan nie. Ek het my meubels by mense gestoor en party van my goed staan onder \u2019n seil in die wind en weer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Arnold het hy geen ander keuse gehad as om in die berge naby Hermanus vir hom \u2019n ander heenkome te gaan soek nie. \u201cEk het hier kom kamp opslaan. Ek bly tussen die bome en daar is \u2019n waterstroompie met vars water,\u201d vertel hy. Hy s\u00ea verder hy bly saam met \u2019n man wat gereeld mense se huise in Onrus verf, en hulle voel baie veilig. \u201cOns uitsig is asemrowend. Ons sien tot die liggies van Gansbaai en hoor elke aand die see baie duidelik.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arnold, wat \u2019n gelowige man is, glo dat \u2019n uitkoms nog vir hom sal kom. \u201cEk glo daar is hoop en sien al die lig aan die einde van die tonnel. Ek gaan nie moed opgee nie. Ek gaan bly glo, al is dit moeilik om positief te bly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat vir Arnold die hartseerste is, is die feit dat die hele Paradisepark-saga so onmenslik is. \u201cAs hulle dit net beter hanteer het; as hulle ons net soos mense hanteer het, was dit \u2019n ander saak,\u201d vertel hy hartseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Arnold weet hy van hulle bly onwettig daar, maar s\u00ea hulle het geen ander behuisings-geleenthede nie. \u201cEk is n\u00earens op \u2019n lys vir \u2019n huis nie, en daardie Maandag het hulle ges\u00ea ons kan in die Thusong-saal in Hawston gaan bly, maar die Hawstonners wil ons nie daar h\u00ea nie. Selfs Standford se mense, waar glo plek vir ons is, wil ons nie h\u00ea nie. Wat nou?\u201d vra hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Hermanus Times <\/i>is oorval met oproepe van inwoners van Stanford wat ongelukkig is oor di\u00e9 voorstel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henry Gibson van Stanford het in \u2019n brief ges\u00ea die langverwagte behuisingsprojek in Stanford kan maar net nie aan die gang kom nie weens die gerugte dat Paradisepark se inwoners na Stanford verskuif gaan word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie aandag word dan meer gefokus op Paradisepark se inwoners, wat die inwoners van Stanford onthuts laat \u2013 soos met die vergadering van 6 September in die gemeenskapsaal. Die burgemeester, dr. Annelie Rabie, die raadslid Dudley Coetzee en ander amptenare was teenwoordig om die gemeenskap in te lig oor die bou van die aantal huise en wie daarvoor sal kwalifiseer. Maar die vergadering is gekenmerk deur \u2019n oor-en-weer-pratery . . . oor die inwoners van Paradisepark wat hier gehuisves gaan word,\u201d skryf hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom het die amptenare geweet die vergadering gaan die humeure laat opvlam, want die polisie en veiligheidspersoneel was teenwoordig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cStanford se behuisingsprojek moet nou tot sy reg kom voordat na die inwoners van Paradisepark omgesien word. \u2019n Beroep is op die raadslede gedoen om die inwoners meer in te lig hieroor en oor sake wat hulle raak,\u201d het hy verder geskryf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs ons almal saamwerk en Stanford se mense eerste stel, sal die projek slaag.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arnold van der Nest het vier jaar gelede gedink sy lewe het verander toe hy \u2019n werk en huisvesting in Paradisepark gekry het. 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