DIE engel wat waghou oor Engelpark tussen die stadsaal en die ewe bekende NG Grootkerk is skielik minstens een groot gegrafeerde koperplaat kwyt, asook kleiner dekoratiewe koper- afwerkings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDis is eintlik nie \u2019n engel nie, maar die Griekse godin van oorwinning in tye van oorlog en vrede,\u201d verduidelik Brian Hough, voorsitter van die dorp se plaaslike erfenisstigting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graaff-Reinet is die vierde oudste dorp in die land, en die meerderheid inwoners is baie trots op die geskiedkundige skatte in di\u00e9 gewilde toeristebestemming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die standbeeld is opgerig ter nagedagtenis aan soldate uit di\u00e9 distrik wat in die Eerste W\u00eareld-oorlog gesneuwel het, en is op 7 November 1923 deur sy koninklike hoog-heid, prins Arthur van Connaught, kleinseun van koningin Victoria onthul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie standbeeld is eintlik een van die munisipaliteit se waardevolste skatte,\u201d meen inwoner Leonie Fouch\u00e9, wat Vrydag op pad huis toe n\u00e1 werk skielik tweekeer moes kyk toe sy opmerk dat daar iets met die standbeeld skort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ook Nicola Woods, voormalige organiseerder van \u2019n gemeenskapsmark wat in di\u00e9 park gehou is, is ontsteld oor die skade wat aangerig is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het lankal voorgestel dat iets gedoen word om die park te bewaar,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMense gooi gemors en koshouers om die standbeeld terwyl hulle op die trappies sit en eet, en daar word selfs teen die standbeeld ge- urineer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anziske Kayster, bestuurder van die Graaff-Reinet Museumkompleks, is van mening dat die bewaring van alle Suid-Afrikaanse erfenis- skatte prioriteit moet geniet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs erfenispraktisyn en navorser het ek ondervind dat die verlede altyd weer relevant raak, of dit oor 10 jaar of \u2019n duisend jaar is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit word beinvloed deur die betekenis wat ons aan erfenisprodukte op sekere momente in tyd heg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWanneer ons erfenisprodukte vernietig, vernietig ons nie net bewyse van die verlede nie, maar ook die moontlike respek en verdraagsaamheid wat ons vir mekaar behoort te h\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit sorg vir verdere verdeelheid en verdere spanning in die toekoms. Dit byges\u00ea as die vandalisme \u2019n politieke motief gehad het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Hough sal die erfenisstigting n\u00e1 afloop van \u2019n volledige ondersoek na die omvang van die skade die saak onder die polisie se aandag bring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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