Laas week was ek vir \u2019n blitsbesoek Kaapstad toe om, onder meer, my visum aansoek in te dien vir \u2019n beplande toer na Oostenryk, Duitsland en die Tjeggiese Republiek oor die Kerstyd. <\/p>\n
Met die terugvlug, kom ek te lande langs \u2018n lang Duitser. Hy en sy vrou en drie kinders het van Duitsland in Windhoek geland. Hulle het sowat \u2018n week in Namibi\u00eb getoer. Ons het langs mekaar gesit op hulle vlug van Windhoek na Gqeberha. Hier sou hulle \u2019n huurvoertuig kry en hulle toer van die Tuinroete begin tot in Kaapstad.<\/p>\n
Dit was \u2019n gesellige gesprek, en hy was baie opgewonde dat ek binnekort s\u00fd land gaan besoek. Hier en daar het hy \u2019n Duitse woord ingegooi en my standerd sewe Duits het my nogal goed te staan gekom\u2026darem so \u2019n bietjie meer as \u2018Ich liebe dich\u2019.<\/p>\n
Ons het gepraat oor die wolke en son, en hoe hulle uitsien na die toer. Sy navorsing oor ons land was indrukwekkend. En toe\u2026toe kom daai vrae. Hoe veilig is dit in Suid-Afrika? Geld apartheid nog? Is hier rassisme te bespeur? Ek moes mooi dink voor ek antwoord. Gaan ek hom nou vertel van die talle onlangse massamoorde en ontvoering? Sal ek hom vertel van die politieke kaskenades en die rooi berets se uitlatings? Sal ek hom s\u00ea dat hulle tog maar versigtig moet wees waar hulle loop? Moes ek s\u00ea van die parlement wat gebrand het?<\/p>\n
O nee! Daar\u2019s nie \u2019n kans dat ek hom gaan bang praat nie. Ek het losgetrek met die verduideliking dat die naam Port Elizabeth op die naamborde en \u2018Gqeberha\u2019 dieselfde plek is. Dat Port Elizabeth venoem was na Sir Rufane Donkin se vrou, Elizabeth, en nie die koningin nie. Ook dat die nuwe naam \u2019n Khoi naam is wat na \u2019n rivier genoem is wat deur die stad loop.<\/p>\n
Ek het die lugwaardin in isiXhosa gegroet en bedank, en verduidelik dat om iemand in sy taal te groet, deure oopmaak. Ons het gewerk aan sy woordeskat. Hy kon in \u2019n ommesientjie s\u00ea \u2018molo, lekker, baie dankie, totsiens, amaBokko en mamparra.\u2019<\/p>\n
Toe spog ek met ons Duitse verbintenis, die Volkswagen fabriek op Uitenhage (Kariega), ons wonderlike wyne en waar om daarvan te gaan drink. Ek vertel met oorgawe van ons fynbos, ons groot vyf en lieflike strande aan die Tuinroete. (Ek moes darem net waarsku oor die dosyne kere wat die spoedbeperking wissel tussen Plettenbergbaai en George!) Hy moes hoor van ons spog vrugte wat uitgevoer word, en dat veral sitrus vir ons land meer geld verdien as die motorbedryf \u2013 waarmee hy bekend is.<\/p>\n
Gedagtig aan die tieners, noem ek toe van die Bloukrans rekspringery, en asemrowende staproetes in die Tsitsikammabos. Ek s\u00ea by die restaurante moet hulle bobotie, boerewors en malvapoeding bestel. Hy is n\u00e1 die vlug net so opeklits oor ons Springbok w\u00eareldkampioene, en ons entoesiastiese sportminister. Hy het dadelik notas op sy selfoon gemaak van die rooi bus in Kaapstad, die Truth koffiewinkel wat al drie keer aangewys is as die w\u00eareld se beste, die biskop Desmond Tutu museum en wonderlike Kistenbosch.<\/p>\n
Ons het hartlik gegroet op die Baaise lughawe. Ek hoor hoe hy die storie van die naam \u2018Dawid Stuurman\u2019 en \u2018Port Elizabeth\u2019 aan sy familie verduidelik. Tuis in my kooi wonder ek bekommerd of ek nie die Duitser maar t\u00f3g \u2019n paar waarskuwings moes gee nie. S\u00ea nou iets gebeur met hulle? Maar\u2026S\u00ea nou niks gebeur met hulle nie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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