Denzil Jacobs is 2013 na \u2019n onmenslik wrede aanval vir dood agtergelaat. Die blote feit dat hy vandag hier is om sy merkwaardige lewensverhaal te vertel, is nie net \u2019n wonderwerk nie, maar ook getuienis van sy onwrikbare geloof en deursettingsvermo\u00eb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacobs is in Grabouw gebore en het daar grootgeword. Sy droom om n\u00e1 skool drama te studeer, is weens finansi\u00eble redes gekortwiek. \u201cMet \u2019n enkelma was daar nie geld om te gaan leer nie. Ek het toe besluit om \u2019n verple\u00ebr te word, en het appels in die boor\u00adde gepluk om geld te verdien. Tussen kursusse het ek gereeld in die boorde gewerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wou mense help en het n\u00e1 my studies by \u2019n ouetehuis en hospies gewerk. Ek was die enig\u00adste kind, en het ook my ma versorg nadat ek haar by die hospies ingeboek het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacobs se ma is op 13 Septem\u00adber 2013 oorlede. Jacobs se lewe het in die vroe\u00eb oggendure op die dag van sy ma se begrafnis onherroeplik verander. \u201cDit het hard gere\u00ebn en ek het 02:00 die oggend wakkergeskrik met iemand wat met \u2019n tuinvurk teen my nek staan. Ek kon geen weer\u00adstand bied nie. Hulle het geld gevra. Hulle het die tuinvurk in my nek ingedruk, my uitgetrek en van die bed af gegooi. Alles het vir my in slow motion<\/i> ge\u00adbeur. Ek het spasmas gekry, want ek het gedink hulle gaan my verkrag. Hulle het \u2019n ge\u00adbreek\u00adte bottel in die gat in my nek, wat deur die tuinvurk gemaak is, gedruk en gedraai en ook die steel van \u2019n eetlepel aan die ander kant in my nek ingedruk. Dit het in daardie stadium gevoel asof iets my liggaam verlaat, soos wanneer \u2019n mens jou asem uitblaas. Ek het onmiddellik besef dat ek verlam is. Toe gooi hulle my teen die muur en probeer my met \u2019n kussing versmoor. Op daardie oomblik het ek geweet ek is dood, maar toe ek later vir \u2019n kort rukkie bygekom het, het ek twee keer om hulp geroep. Iemand wat verbygeloop het, het my gehoor. Dit was soos \u2019n engel wat die Here gestuur het. Hulle het gedink ek is dood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Ambulans het Jacobs na die Tygerberg-hospitaal geneem. N\u00e1 maande in \u2019n koma is hy meegedeel hy het \u2019n C4-ruggraat\u00adbesering opgedoen en is van die nek af ondertoe verlam. \u201cEk het rehabilitasie ontvang, maar was vir \u2019n jaar heeltemal verlam en kon niks doen nie. Ek het my bekeer en van toe af kon ek my arms beweeg. Ek het geen greep in my hande nie en kan nie \u2019n pen vashou en skryf nie, maar ek kan self eet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacobs woon by sy 74-jarige tannie, haar dogter en familie, wat hom versorg. \u201cDit was vir my \u2019n groot aanpassing, want ek was altyd die een wat ander gehelp het. Ek het nog nooit vir die Here gevra hoekom dit met my ge\u00adbeur het nie. Ek het geen gevoel van haat nie, maar ek sou so graag by my ma se begrafnis wou wees, en dit het hulle my ontneem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacobs is in die vorige verkiesing as DA-raadslid vir sy wyk in Grabouw verkies. \u201cEk is die eerste gestremde DA-raadslid in Suid-Afrika en ook die eerste gestremde raadslid in die Theewaterskloof-munisipaliteit. Ek het nou \u2019n nuwe doelwit in die lewe en vind my vreugde en berusting in wat ek doen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy boodskap oor hoe om teen\u00adoor gestremdes op te tree, is: \u201cMense wat liggaamlik en verstan\u00addelik normaal is, moet hul mindset<\/i> teenoor gestremdes verander. Mense moet meer bewus raak en hulp aanbied waar hulle kan. Hulle moet ons geensins bejammer nie. Ons moet mekaar respekteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDis wonderlik hoe die Here werk. Ons beding die weg, maar Hy bestuur die weg. Ek moet opstaan vir mense met gestremdhede. Die gemeenskap sien my nou as \u2019n leiersfiguur, maar dit het my as mens nie verander nie. Ek is steeds plat op die aarde.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacobs s\u00ea hy is baie dank verskuldig aan die raadslid Sammy Fredericks, wat hom so bystaan en wat hy as \u2019n vaderfiguur sien. Fredericks s\u00ea: \u201cOns s\u00ea altyd hy is nie disabled<\/i> nie, hy is differently<\/i>abled<\/i>. Hy wil \u2019n plaatjie neersit in die samelewing en hierdie plaatjie sal s\u00ea: \u201cNiks is onmoontlik nie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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