{"id":51614,"date":"2020-12-03T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/korrespondent-wees-is-n-fees-20201202-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:28:38","slug":"korrespondent-wees-is-n-fees-20201202-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/korrespondent-wees-is-n-fees-20201202-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Korrespondent-wees is \u2019n fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

DIT gebeur nie dikwels dat \u2019n joernalis se woorde opraak nie \u2013 daarvoor is daar heeltemal te veel onvertelde stories! <\/p>\n

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Komani-Karoo korrespondent Elsab\u00e9 Pienaar.Foto: <\/div>\n
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Woorde ontbreek egter wanneer ek moet vertel watter waarde dit tot my lewe toegevoeg het om \u2019n korrespondent te kan wees. <\/p>\n

Ek het nie veel professionele ervaring gehad voordat ek op \u2019n advertensie vir korrespondente in die destydse Mid-Karoo Express<\/span> (nou Komani-Karoo Express<\/span>) gereageer het nie, en was op skool maar net redaktrise van \u2019n eenvoudige skoolkoe-rantjie! <\/p>\n

Gelukkig beskik Media24 oor uiters be-kwame redaksionele personeel \u2013 ek leer vreeslik baie by hulle, en hulle help mens met groot geduld!<\/p>\n

Die belangrikste eienskappe waaroor \u2019n korrespondent moet beskik, is \u2019n lewendige en opregte belangstelling in mense en gebeure om jou. Fyn waarnemingsvermo\u00eb en \u2019n \u201cneus vir \u2019n storie\u201d is ook nie te ver-smaaie nie. <\/p>\n

Ek het geleer om soos \u2019n satellietskottel te wees \u2013 ek hou sosiale media soos Facebook en dorpe se WhatsApp-groepe dop \u2013 op di\u00e9 manier hoor mens sommer baie vinnig van stories. <\/p>\n

Mens hoef nie \u2019n indrukwekkende of groot kamera te h\u00ea nie \u2013 ek het vir twee jaar net met my iPhone oor die weg gekom, en my foto\u2019s het dikwels die voorblad gehaal. <\/p>\n

Desember 2019 het ek \u2019n oulike digitale kameratjie gekry met \u2019n sterk zoemlens \u2013 dit help as mens goeie foto\u2019s wil neem maar jouself nie noodwendig te naby gevaarlike aksie wil plaas nie.<\/p>\n

Die voordeel van vryskutwerk is dat jy kan kies watter soort stories jy wil dek. Nie almal hou van aktuele nuusgebeure soos munisipale aangeleenthede of misdaadbe-rigte nie. <\/p>\n

Jy kan natuurlik kies om wel op sulke berigte te fokus, maar met plaaslike koerante soos Kouga Express<\/span> is dit veel belang-riker en lekkerder om te vertel van \u2019n nuwe eetplek, \u2019n opwindende branderplankkompetisie of \u2019n plaaslike liefdadigheidsorganisasie se goeie werk. <\/p>\n

Omdat mens nie vir \u2019n vaste salaris werk of \u2019n brandstoftoelaag ontvang nie, is dit wys om jou stories s\u00f3 te kies dat die kool darem die sous werd is. <\/p>\n

Ek het geleer om meer as een storie se materiaal bymekaar te kry wanneer ek op naburige dorpe gaan besoek afl\u00ea. <\/p>\n

Voordat ek begin skryf het, het ek vyf jaar lank sonder inkomste op \u2019n plaas gewoon en my kinders voltyds getuisskool. <\/p>\n

Om weer \u2019n inkomste te kon genereer met skryfwerk wat ek s\u00f3 geniet, was erg bevredigend!<\/p>\n

Ek sal nooit kan opsom watter avonture ek al beleef het sedert Januarie 2018 nie. Byna elke dag ontmoet ek nuwe mense en duisende lewensjare is by my eie gevoeg, want ek kry deurgaans \u2019n kykie op ander mense se interessante lewensreise, en ek voeg dit by myne soos mens bladsye in \u2019n ringl\u00eaer b\u00eare. <\/p>\n

So het ek betrokke geraak by boere- en kleindorpie-gemeenskappe, en met groot deernis geleer hoe veerkragtig die inwoners van die ongenaakbare Karoo kan wees. <\/p>\n

Ek het ook geleer om met stewels op kaal landerye en in hartseer vrugte- boorde in die son te loop agter \u2019n storie oor die droogte aan, en die volgende oomblik in hakskoentjies by \u2019n glansgeleent-heid skouers te skuur met sjeiks en ministers. <\/p>\n

Een oomblik klim jy in tekkies tot bo-op die dak van \u2019n afleweringswa om \u2019n lugfoto van kospakkies te neem, en die volgende oomblik trek jy jou skoene uit en dans saam met die kinders van \u2019n township in die strate as die water van \u2019n nuutge- boorde boorgat die lug opspuit. <\/p>\n

Ek kan nie meer onthou net hoeveel keer ek saam met my medemens in die Karoo gelag, gehuil en in verwondering gestaan het nie. <\/p>\n

Letterlik ALLES was interessant, want die lewe is vir my \u2019n onuitputlike bron van stories, ervaringe, geskiedkundige momente en grensverskuiwende avonture.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Die mees bevredigende deel van korrespondent-wees is dat ek soms oor \u2019n pro-bleemkwessie skryf en die buitew\u00eareld dan daarop reageer en dinge beter maak. <\/p>\n

Ek het onlangs in die apokriewe Boek van Thoma gelees: \u201cIf you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth, will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.\u201d <\/p>\n

Toe verstaan ek waarom ek nie meer anders kan as om die stories van die mense om my neer te skryf nie. <\/p>\n

Ek stem saam met Teilhard de Chardin wat ges\u00ea het: \u201cWe are spiritual beings having a human experience.\u201d <\/p>\n

Die voorreg om te kan skryf het \u2019n ongelooflike verdieping in my \u201chuman experience\u201d teweeggebring. <\/p>\n

As jy dit oorweeg om \u2019n korrespondent vir Kouga Express<\/span> te wees, wil ek jou hart-lik aanmoedig met die woorde uit Ballade vir \u2019n Enkeling<\/span>: Moenie dink nie. DOEN net!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elsab\u00e9 Pienaaris \u2019n korrespondent van Komani-Karoo Express, susterskoerant van die Kouga Express, sedert begin 2018. 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