CJ Langenhoven het ges\u00ea: \u201cOm af te breek, is geen kuns nie; \u2019n klein babatjie kan \u2019n blommetjie verniel wat dit \u2019n God gekos het om te maak.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar is min mense wat di\u00e9 woorde van Langenhoven so goed verstaan soos Paul van den Berg, \u2019n jarelange inwoner van Graaff-Reinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van den Berg is bekend vir sy jarelange onbaatsugtige en opbouende diens aan di\u00e9 dorp en sy gemeenskap en daarom het die Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) vanjaar besluit om hom te bekroon met die gesogde Baanbrekertoekenning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Mei vanjaar het die FAK \u2019n Oos-Kaapse toer gedoen, ter herdenking van die ondertekening van die Vrede van Vereeniging wat 120 jaar gelede plaasgevind het. Tydens hul toer het di\u00e9 organisasie se Kultuurnetwerke in die Kaapprovinsies besoek afgel\u00ea in om hulde te bring aan Boere wat tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog deur die Britse regering tereggestel is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met hul aankoms in Graaff-Reinet het hulle kennis gemaak met Oom Paul, soos hy in di\u00e9 dorp bekend staan. \u2019n Man wat vir meer as 20 jaar lank al eiehandig, jaar na jaar sorg dat die graf van Gideon Scheepers, \u2019n gevalle ABO-held uit die geweste, onderhou word. Van den Berg re\u00ebl ook \u2019n jaarlikse kranslegging op die herdenking van Scheepers se teregstelling, 18 Januarie (1902).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van den Berg het die FAK se Baanbrekertoekenning ontvang tydens \u2019n byeenkoms van die FAK-Graaff-Reinet-Kultuurnetwerk, nadat die groep \u2019n kranslegging gedoen het in die dorp se begraafplaas by die gesamentlik graf van die burgers wat tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog tereggestel is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy belangstelling in Gideon Scheepers het begin toe hy tydens sy diensplig in die Gideon Scheepers-regiment een van die kisdraers was van Scheepers se ma met haar begrafnis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Paul het ook oor die jare omgesien na die graf vir die tereggestelde rebelle in die begraafplaas en op sy eie onkoste later \u2019n steen vir Gideon Scheepers by die ander sewe stene op die graf bygevoeg. Hy was ook betrokke by die instandhouding en herstel van die Gideon Scheepers-monument.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n UITGEREIK: FAK<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CJ Langenhoven het ges\u00ea: \u201cOm af te breek, is geen kuns nie; \u2019n klein babatjie kan \u2019n blommetjie verniel wat dit \u2019n God gekos het om te 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