IN Tamboekiesvlei in die hartjie van die Katriviervallei woon een van di\u00e9 kontrei se legendes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johannes Lodewyk Loots, alombekend as oom Wykie, is \u2019n boorling van Hertzog waar van ons felste Xhosa-oorlo\u00eb in toeka se dae geveg is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Wykie is op 2 Februarie 1931 op die plaas Groepskloof in Tamboekiesvlei by Hertzog gebore. Hy het onlangs sy 87ste verjaardag gevier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luidens oom Wykie het hy net tot standerd vyf op Hertzog Prim\u00ear, die oudste skool in die Katriviervallei, skoolgegaan. Daarna het hy saam met sy broers met hul pa op die landerye gaan werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Katriviervallei was in \u2019n stadium die hartland van die tabakbedryf. Op die naburige dorpie Balfour staan vandag nog \u2019n gebou wat destyds gebruik is om tabakblare vir die uitvoermark te droog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Wykie se eerste werk was in 1950 by \u2019n bakkery op Oos-Londen, maar hy het later brood en koeke vir motors verruil. In Port Elizabeth het hy onder meer vir Ford, General Motors asook Citro\u00ebn gewerk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Wykie dink met heimwe\u00eb terug aan die pampoene, aartappels en ander groente wat in sy tyd uit Tamboekiesvlei se lande geoes is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten tye van die apartheidsjare se gedwonge verskuiwings onder die destydse Lennox Sebe-regime was oom Wykie een van die rebelle wat volstrek geweier het om uit Hertzog te trek en op Fremersheim naby George hervestig te word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het tot \u2019n paar jaar gelede nog met dorperskape op Hertzog geboer, maar diefstal het hom daarvan laat afsien. Deesdae hou hy net \u2019n koei of twee aan vir melk vir sy en vroulief se koffie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skertsend verklaar hy dat hy deesdae net leef vir sy \u201cgoose\u201d Louisa met wie hy nou al 26 jaar getroud is. Sy eerste huwelik het nie uitgewerk nie en in die skeihof ge\u00ebindig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Wykie is tans ouderling van die VGK-Kerk op Hertzog en is \u2019n groot voorstaander van naasteliefde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy een swak punt is dat my o\u00eb baie naby my blaas sit. Ek praat graag by begrafnisse, maar as ek my kom kry vloei die trane vrylik,\u201d erken hy met gryse eerlikheid. Oom Wykie bestuur nog sy geliefde Toyota bakkie en ry nog na begrafnisse oor die ganse Oos-Kaap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom pla die ore en o\u00eb so bietjie en wil die gewrigte ook nie meer so lekker saamspeel nie, maar terwyl daar nog samboksalf op winkels se rakke is sal hy en sy \u201cgoose\u201d mekaar se pyne uitsmeer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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