{"id":50335,"date":"2021-08-26T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/n-tolbos-in-die-gamtoosvallei-20210825-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:16:49","slug":"n-tolbos-in-die-gamtoosvallei-20210825-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/n-tolbos-in-die-gamtoosvallei-20210825-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019n Tolbos in die Gamtoosvallei"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Tolbos\"<\/p>\n
Tolbos het op 17 Augustus sy 33ste bestaansjaar gevier. Foto: Joan\u00e9 Azenha<\/div>\n
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\u2019n TOLBOS kan grootliks beskryf word as die blare en blomme van sekere plante wat, wanneer dit volgroei en droog is, vanself loskom van die wortel of stam en dan rol dit weg in die wind. <\/p>\n

Alhoewel daar \u2019n definitiewe inheemse lekkerte aan die naam is, sal \u2019n mens definitief nie die vlugtige natuur van hierdie plantsoort met die restaurant wat hy as naamgenoot het, vereenselwig nie. <\/p>\n

Tolbos restaurant en winkel op die lieflike plaasdorpie Patensie, het op 17 Augustus sy 33ste bestaansjaar gevier. Dit is voorwaar \u2019n mylpaal, veral op \u2019n dorpie waar daar in 1988 bitter min behalwe stofstrate en plaasimplemente te siene was.<\/p>\n

Kouga Express<\/em> het met ma- en dogterspan Hetsie en Karin Scheepers gaan gesels om meer hieroor uit te vind. <\/p>\n

Tolbos is die breinkind van twee formidabele boervrouens, en beste vriendinne, Hetsie Scheepers en Tosca Joubert, toe hulle meer as dertig jaar gelede \u2019n plek buite die huis gesoek het om hulle stokperdjies te beoefen, onderskeidelik pottebakkery en naaldwerk. Hulle het \u2019n klein huisie agter die destydse voetbalveld geneem, so bietjie gewerk en geskaaf aan die plek en so is Tolbos gebore. <\/p>\n

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\"Tolbos\"<\/p>\n
Ma-en-dogterspan Hetsie en Karin Scheepers. Foto: Joan\u00e9 Azenha<\/div>\n
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Hetsie vertel: \u201cIn daardie jare het ek elke dag naaldwerk gedoen en uitrustings gemaak en ek het spasie nodig gehad om dit te doen. Ons besluit toe om \u2019n diens te lewer aan die gemeenskap deur \u2019n klein winkel te begin waar mense vanuit die gemeenskap hul tuisgemaakte produkte kon verkoop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later het hulle besluit om hul dienste uit te brei na di\u00e9 van \u2019n baie be-skeie teetuin, waar hulle slegs tee en botterbroodjies (scones<\/span>) kon ver-koop, omdat hulle net \u2019n mikrogolf en \u2019n ketel as kombuistoerusting gehad het. Die verversings is geniet by rofgetimmerde dwarsl\u00eaerbankies wat deur die vriendinne se mans aanmekaargesit is. <\/p>\n

\u201cLater het ons modeparades gehou met my uitrustings \u2013 dan hou die vrouens van die vallei hul lywe model en vertoon die uitrustings wat ek gemaak het. So het ek my klere verkoop en ons kon die winkel uitbrei.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tolbos het vinnig \u2019n kletsplek vir die dames van die distrik geword en die twee vriendinne het besluit om hul spreekwoordelike grondgebied te vergroot. <\/p>\n

Karin vertel hoe hulle na skool moes help in die winkel. Toe die winkel begin tuisgebakte brood ver-koop, moes elke kind na skool \u00e9\u00e9rs \u2019n skottel deeg knie voor hulle kon gaan speel. Die brode is dan deur die nag deur Hetsie gebak en het elke oggend getrou op Tolbos se rakke verskyn. <\/p>\n

\u201cDestyds was ons nie baie ingenome met die werk nie, maar dit was wonderlike tye Ek verruil dit vir niks op die aarde nie\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019n Koerantartikel wat op Donderdag, 18 Augustus 1988 in \u201cDie Oosterlig\u201d verskyn het. Links is Tosca Joubert en regs is Hetsie Scheepers. In die middel is die destydse minister van Buitelandse Sake, Kobus Meiring, familielid van Tosca Joubert, wat die winkel kom open het. Foto:VERSKAF<\/div>\n
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Op 9 Januarie 1994 het hulle na die perseel verskuif waar hulle vandag staan. Deur die jare is baie veranderinge aangebring. Tosca het in 2016 besluit dat sy graag haar aandeel in die besigheid wil verkoop om af te tree, en Karin, met haar kinderdae diep in die winkel ingewortel, besluit toe om Tosca se aandeel uit te koop en saam met haar ma in die besigheid te tree. <\/p>\n

Met haar agtergrond in modeontwerp en spyseniering was Karin die perfekte persoon om hierdie baken die toekoms in te neem. Vandag be-dien die restaurant veel meer as skons, en kli\u00ebnte kan \u2019n heerlike spyskaart verwag, met alles van ontbyt tot middagetes en soetgoed uit hul eie voltydse bakery. <\/p>\n

Hul bestanddele en benodigdhede word so ver moontlik van plaaslike verskaffers gekoop, want die ekonomie van die vallei is vir hulle baie belangrik. \u201cOns moet mekaar onder-steun, anders sal \u2019n klein dorpie soos hierdie nie kan oorleef nie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dit verseker ook natuurlik dat alles wat jy daar eet plaasvars is. <\/p>\n

Die Scheepers-gesin het hulle oor die jare ook beywer met die stigting van die eerste toerisme-maatskappy wat die Gamtoosvallei en die Ba- viaanskloof vir mense toeganklik gemaak het. Hulle is vandag nog baie betrokke by toerisme in die omgewing en is ook \u2019n toerismekantoor, waar \u2019n mens meer inligting oor aktiwiteite in die omgewing kan bekom. <\/p>\n

Tannie Hetsie is self \u2019n kranige reisiger en kan besoekers alles vertel van staproetes, kampeerplekke en 4×4 paaie van Patensie tot bo in Afrika. Dit is opwindend om te weet dat Tolbos, met sy wortels diep in die gemeenskap, sal voortbestaan en die volgende generasie bedien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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