{"id":46534,"date":"2021-07-06T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/komani-karoo\/groot-boom-van-cradock-het-geval-20210607\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:04:27","slug":"groot-boom-van-cradock-het-geval-20210607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/komani-karoo\/groot-boom-van-cradock-het-geval-20210607\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Groot boom&#8217; van Cradock het geval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_c031644b\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacques Jordaan (tweede van links) saam met sy seu\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10039\/c7c70503e70e426b8e8551518858b1a7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10039\/06adc5d62c6141dfa63301704ff6e01a.jpg\" title=\"Jacques Jordaan (tweede van links) saam met sy seuns Shaun (links) en Jaco, sy vrou Mirie en dogter Adel Grobbelaar. Foto: Facebook\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Jacques Jordaan (tweede van links) saam met sy seuns Shaun (links) en Jaco, sy vrou Mirie en dogter Adel Grobbelaar. Foto: Facebook<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuus dat Jacques Jordaan (64) \u2013 een van Cradock se bekendste sakemanne \u2013 oorlede is, het soos \u2018n veldbrand deur die dorp versprei.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die woorde \u201c\u2019n groot boom het geval\u201d is verskeie kere op sosiale media gesien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordaan was \u2018n Cradock-seun wat op die dorp skoolgegaan en grootgeword het. Almal het hom geken en hy was bekend daarvoor dat hy sy besigheid, CAT Motors, van die grond af opgehou het. CAT Motors is \u2018n Isuzu-handelaar op di\u00e9 dorp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_4d6732e6\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacques Jordaan saam met sy vrou, Mirie. Foto: Fac\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10039\/15c1633b11304456a87af72e6fc081c0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10039\/390066a48a2047ceb1578882ef193149.jpg\" title=\"Jacques Jordaan saam met sy vrou, Mirie. Foto: Facebook\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Jacques Jordaan saam met sy vrou, Mirie. Foto: Facebook<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Die besigheid was vir omtrent 40 jaar in Kerkstraat op die dorp, maar het 10 jaar gelede na \u2018n ruim en moderne perseel met meer as 20 personeellede langs die pad na Middelburg verskuif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens sy personeel was hy \u2018n \u201cfantastiese baas en mentor wat alles vir die besigheid en sy personeel sou doen\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy was ook bekend vir sy bydraes in die plaaslike gemeenskap en was een van die eerstes om \u2018n groot Isuzu-trok te borg om die Cradock Gemeenskapsforum te ondersteun in hul pligte om die dorp skoon te maak en op te hef. Jordaan het ook plaaslike liefdadigheidsorganisasies ondersteun en het jaarliks nuwe bakkies tydens die Cradock-kanomarathon verskaf vir die vervoer van media, buitelandse roeiers, noodhulpbystand en meer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy het ook die plaaslike karavaanklub begin, was \u2018n lid van die gholfklub, asook van die Mansklub op die dorp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordaan was ten tyde van sy afsterwe in \u2018n hospitaal in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) waar hy \u2018n operasie aan sy hart ondergaan het. Hy het aan komplikasies wat daarop gevolg het, beswyk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy word oorleef deur sy vrou Mirie, twee seuns, Jaco van Port Elizabeth en Shaun van Cradock, wat saam met sy pa by CAT Motors gewerk het. Sy dogter Ad\u00e9l is die eggenote van ds. Jan Grobbelaar van die Cradock Oos-gemeente. 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