{"id":49370,"date":"2022-02-24T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/walvis-droom-gee-freddie-vlerke-20220223-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:01:02","slug":"walvis-droom-gee-freddie-vlerke-20220223-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/walvis-droom-gee-freddie-vlerke-20220223-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walvis-droom gee Freddie vlerke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hierdie is die verhaal van hoe \u2019n man \u2019n rampspoedige ongeluk oorleef, sy vaste beroep kwytgeraak, \u2019n boodskap in \u2019n droom gekry, dit nagevolg het en vandag weer vir homself kan sorg.<\/p>\n

Sy naam is Freddie de Jager, inwoner van Hankey, maar Kaap St. Francis se bekende \u201cwalvis\u2013man.\u201d <\/p>\n

In \u2019n rustige stemtoon vertel Freddie van d\u00e1\u00e1rdie dag toe die lewe soos hy dit geken het, vir ewig verander het. Net die trek in sy o\u00eb ver-klap die intense fisieke pyn wat hy moes ervaar het. <\/p>\n

\u201cDie grinder<\/span> (hoekslyper) het oor altwee voete gegly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freddie buig vooroor, beduie met sy regterhand oor die voorkant van sy voete.<\/p>\n

\u201cDit het baie lank gevat om gesond te word. Daarna was ek nog hoe lank in \u2019n rolstoel.\u201d <\/p>\n

Voor die ongeluk was Freddie vir 24 jaar \u2019n verwer van huise. \u2019n Onafhanklike man wat inkomste aanbetref. Hy het erg getob oor sy nuwe \u201ctoestand,\u201d want aalmoese en afhanklikheid sit nie in sy gene nie.<\/p>\n

\u201cEk is gebore in die Wes-Kaap in Villiersdorp in 1975, en het daar in Stanford skoolgegaan. Ek het my skoolloopbaan voltooi, maar daar was nie geld om verder te gaan studeer nie, toe het ek \u2019n verwer geword.\u201d <\/p>\n

Freddie praat weer oor die ongeluk, vertel hoe hy daarna gesukkel het.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn daardie stadium het ek vir myself gewerk. My eie huis. En ek het gedink oeps, iets sal moet gebeur, want ek het nie \u2019n inkomste nie. Die government<\/span> het my ses maande grant<\/span> gegee. En toe begin dinge vir my nou erger raak as gevolg van finansi\u00eble probleme en so aan.\u201d <\/p>\n

Toe kom d\u00e1\u00e1rdie Woensdagaand.<\/p>\n

\u201cEk het \u2019n droom gehad. Die droom het drie keer op dieselfde aand aan my verskyn en in die droom het \u2019n stem vir my ges\u00ea dat ek walvisse moet maak.<\/p>\n

\u201cDie volgende oggend het ek my droom gevolg. Ek het opgestaan en gesien buite in die tuin l\u00ea daar drie stukke limestone<\/span> (kalksteen). Ek het die grootste stuk gevat, die grinder <\/span>uitgehaal en ek het die walvis van die stertkant na die kop begin vorm. Dit was agtuur die oggend en twaalf-uur, was ek klaar met die vis.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\"Freddie\"<\/p>\n
Freddie de Jager het op aandrang van sy kli\u00ebnte begin om sy handtekening op elkeen van sy walvis\u2013skeppings te graveer. <\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Freddie het sy eerste walvis, geskep uit kalksteen, na \u2019n winkelier geneem. \u201cHy het vir my ges\u00ea dit is iets moois en besonders. Hy het my betaal vir die vis en ek was tevrede. Van daar af het ek net walvisse gemaak. Toe my voete herstel het, het ek nie teruggegaan na die verfwerk nie.\u201d <\/p>\n

Daardie dae was Freddie nog in die Wes-Kaap. Nadat hy in twee jaar beide sy ouers en sy broer verloor het, het hy besluit om na Hankey in die Oos-Kaap te kom omdat sy neef, Dirk Windvogel, daar woon.<\/p>\n

\u201cToe ek nou hier in die Oos-Kaap (Kouga-streek) kom, sal ek nou ontdek, \u00f4-\u00f4, hier is nie limestone<\/span> op Hankey nie. Toe het ek nou oorge-slaan van die limestone<\/span> na hout.\u201d <\/p>\n

En nou hoor \u2019n mens orals van die \u201cWalvis-man van Kaap St. Francis.\u201d Freddie knik in-stemmend. Kaap St. Francis is die naaste kusdorp aan Hankey. Hy verkoop sy beelde daar.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaar is al heelwat mense wat by my walvis gekoop het. Van die visse is al oorsee. Die meeste is in Engeland, Amerika en Australi\u00eb, en \u2019n hele paar plekke anderkant die water.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dit neem Freddie twee weke om \u2019n walvis van ongeveer 1,5 meter uit hout \u2013 die meeste afkomstig van afgesaagde uitheemse bome \u2013 te skep. \u201cJy weet mos, die windbrekerhout wat in die sitrusboorde gebruik word.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waar Freddie sit en gesels op Kaap St. Francis, troon \u2019n reuse-walvis op sy staander bo die ander houtskeppings uit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHierdie groot walvis van s\u00ea-maar vier en \u2019n half meter het my vier en \u2019n half weke geneem om te maak.\u201d<\/p>\n

Net soos met die kalksteen waaruit hy sy eerste walvisse geskep het, begin Freddie met die hout ook by die stertkant van die walvis en werk dan kop toe.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan meet ek die hout, sny die vinne, sit die vinne in en begin dan met die skuurwerk.\u201d <\/p>\n

Maar hoe sal hy wat Freddie is, sy walvis\u2013skeppings beskryf?<\/p>\n

\u201cEk sal my walvis as eie\u2013uniek beskryf. Die meeste mense wat dit sien, s\u00ea dit is \u2019n wonderlike kunswerk en dit is baie mooi. Ek moet eerlikwaar s\u00ea, dit laat my trots voel, want \u2019n mens is gebore om met sy brein en sy hande te werk \u2013 eintlik met sy hele liggaam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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