{"id":52060,"date":"2020-09-03T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/kareedouw-is-dorp-van-die-jaar-20200902-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:35:29","slug":"kareedouw-is-dorp-van-die-jaar-20200902-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/kareedouw-is-dorp-van-die-jaar-20200902-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kareedouw is Dorp van die Jaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_43387bfc\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3201\/4dccc248c63b42aa8ee3542917eaf131.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3201\/3cb62e8115264262a81732249b164ef4.jpg\" title=\"Kareedouw, gele\u00eb tussen die Tsitsikamma- en Suuranysberg, is Sondag op kykNET as die joernaalprogram, Kw\u00eala, se Dorp van die Jaar aangewys. Wilna Moolman en Francois was die dryfkrag agter Kareedouw se veldtog.    foto:MONIQUE BASSON\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Kareedouw, gele\u00eb tussen die Tsitsikamma- en Suuranysberg, is Sondag op kykNET as die joernaalprogram, Kw\u00eala, se Dorp van die Jaar aangewys. Wilna Moolman en Francois was die dryfkrag agter Kareedouw se veldtog.    foto:MONIQUE BASSON<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KAREEDOUW roem met \u2019n spogtitel.<\/p>\n<p>Di\u00e9 dorp tussen die Tsitsikamma- en Suuranysberg is Sondag op kykNET as die joernaalprogram, <em>Kw\u00eala<\/em>, se Dorp van die Jaar aangewys.<\/p>\n<p>Die titel word toegeken aan die dorp wat die meeste SMS-stemme in die laaste stemweek van die kompetisie gekry het.<\/p>\n<p>Wilna Moolman, een van die dorpverteenwoordigers en dryfkrag agter Kareedouw se veldtog saam met Francois Strydom, s\u00ea sy het amper haar \u201cgeloof weggeskrik\u201d toe Kareedouw as wenner aangekondig is. \u201cEk kan dit vir niemand beskryf nie; dit is \u2019n ongelooflike lekker gevoel om te weet so \u2019n klein dorpie het s\u00f3 saamgestaan en net gestem en gestem en gestem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Almal met wortels in Kareedouw het ingespring: jongmense van oorsee het geld gestuur vir lugtyd, asook plaaslike besighede en boere. Vriende van die stede het ges\u00ea ons stem Kareedouw\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_6f3e231b\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3201\/6d53c3c0abc14cf5a6a28700a5b3bbff.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3201\/4af776f7b51c4934bd041630e96f05cd.jpg\" title=\"Wilna Moolman en Francois Strydom (middel) van di\u00e9 dorp hou die wentjek was. Karen Meiring (Kanaalhoof: kykNET), Hannes van Wyk (Kw\u00eala-aanbieder), Christo Valentyn (bemarkingsbestuurder: KIA) en Loren Greyling (toesighoudende vervaardiger: kykNET) wens hulle geluk. Foto: VERSKAF\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Wilna Moolman en Francois Strydom (middel) van di\u00e9 dorp hou die wentjek was. Karen Meiring (Kanaalhoof: kykNET), Hannes van Wyk (Kw\u00eala-aanbieder), Christo Valentyn (bemarkingsbestuurder: KIA) en Loren Greyling (toesighoudende vervaardiger: kykNET) wens hulle geluk. Foto: VERSKAF<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Volgens Strydom is die grootste bate van die dorp sy mense. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKareedouw is \u2019n mense-mense-plek met \u2019n fantastiese klimaat, van die beste boerewors, unieke heuningbier, \u2019n historiese kerk, die oudste dranklisensie in die land en talle geleenthede vir inwoners en toeriste,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEn die ligging is perfek: Karee-douw is slegs 8km van die N2, net meer as 30 minute se ry van Jeffreysbaai en ongeveer 60 minute van Plettenbergbaai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns het goeie dokters en winkels. Vir mense met kinders het ons \u2019n goeie skool. Alles is hier, saam met die rustigheid. Ons kan regtig nog spog met \u2019n groot veiligheidsfaktor en het nie \u2019n geskiedenis van geweld nie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoonop het ons met twee vryvloeiende waterbronne.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Die ander twee dorpe in die top drie is Swellendam in die Wes-Kaap (tweede) en Port Edward in KwaZulu-Natal (derde).<\/p>\n<p>Swakopmund in Namibi\u00eb was verlede jaar se wenner, terwyl Jeffreysbaai in 2018 met die wentitel wegge-stap het.<\/p>\n<p>As die wenner kry Kareedouw uitsendingstyd ter waarde van R1 miljoen om die dorp te bemark. 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