MANNETJIE Kemp, \u2019n geliefde inwoner van Graaff-Reinet, is op 4 September in Aurora-hospitaal in Port Elizabeth oorlede n\u00e1 \u2019n siekbed van ses maande. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy was die afgelope 24 jaar superintendent by Huis Eybers, koshuis van die Laer Volkskool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mannetjie en sy eggenote, Jaco, het saam studeer aan die destydse onderwyskollege op Graaff-Reinet en is einde 1981 in George getroud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle is reeds nagenoeg 37 jaar inwoners van Graaff-Reinet, waar Mannetjie aanvanklik verbonde was aan die destydse buitelugskool, voordat hy diens as koshuisvader by die laerskool aanvaar het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jaco het net mooi herinneringe aan haar eggenoot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy was baie lief vir kinders, en het baie kinders se harte geraak. Hy was die eerlikste mens wat ek nog ooit geken het. Sy werk was sy alles. Hy was absoluut regverdig, en het nooit een kind bo \u2019n ander bevoordeel nie. Ook in koshuisaangeleenthede sou hy dinge altyd goed oordink en goeie raad gee en met wysheid optree. Hy was \u2019n uitstekende beplanner,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die kinders wat tuisgaan in Huis Eybers het op 5 September op die sportveld byeengekom en ballonne vrygelaat ter nagedagtenis aan hul geliefde koshuisvader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was nodig vir hulle,\u201d het Jaco vertel. \u201cSy afsterwe laat \u2019n groot leemte in hulle lewens, en dit was vir my \u2019n gepaste manier om hom te groet so op \u2019n sportveld, want hy was baie lief vir sport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DJ van Wyk, \u2019n vriend en mede-geesdriftige, het vertel dat Mannetjie baie lief was vir sy Harley Davidson-motorfiets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In \u2019n huldeblyk op Facebook het Van Wyk vertel \u201c . . . hy het beskuit gebak, hy het vleis gewerk, konfyt gemaak en wat nog alles gedoen. Hy en tannie Jaco het ure saam spandeer om allerhande sulke dinge vir hulself, of die koshuis waar hul koshuisouers was, of hul eie kinders, of wie okal te doen! Hy kon stoei met geloofskwessies. Hy het sterk gestaan en vrae gevra. Nooit was hy bereid om net ruggraatloos saam met die stroom te swem nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gideon van der Mescht, \u2019n onderwyser by die Laer Volkskool en 38 jaar lank bevriend met Mannetjie, onthou hom as \u2019n beginselvaste, behulpsame vriend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy sou 02:00 in die nag opstaan om \u2019n vriend in nood te help. Hy was hardwerkend en gasvry \u2013 hul huis staan altyd oop, of dit nou \u2019n koningsmaal of roosterbrood en eiers is, mens is altyd welkom. En hy was baie lief daarvoor om tyd te spandeer op hul plaas buite Victoria-Wes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mannetjie laat sy eggenote Jaco agter, asook sy seun De Klerk, dogter Ri-Ellen en twee kleindogters. Die skool en gemeenskap het Maandagmiddag tydens \u2019n lofprysingsdiens van Mannetjie afskeid geneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het nie \u2019n tradisionele begrafnis gehou nie, want dit is nie wat hy sou wou gehad het nie. Mannetjie was s\u00f3 lief vir jongmense, musiek en sang! Hy was lief vir die lewe, en s\u00f3 sal ons hom onthou,\u201d het Jaco aan Mid-Karoo Express<\/i> ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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