DIE eerste keer toe \u2019n Marokkaanse avonturier sy fiets op sy Afrika-toer met \u2019n slot sluit, word dit gesteel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was in die gewilde Oos-Kaapse vakansiedorp Jeffreysbaai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yassine Ghallam (32) het al sowat 23 500 km op die saal van \u2019n fiets bestee terwyl hy Afrika verken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het die ekspedisie, wat in Januarie 2017 begin het, aangepak sodat hy eendag boeke oor die w\u00eareld se verskillende kulture kan skryf, s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar Vrydag is sy reis deur \u2019n fietsdief onderbreek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het sy fiets voor Jeffreysbaai se Islamitiese Sentrum vasgemaak om die sentrum te gaan verken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was binne tien minute weer buite en my fiets is in daardie tyd gesteel. Ek kon dit nie glo nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGelukkig was my bagasie nie daarop nie,\u201d s\u00ea Ghallam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kapt. Gerda Swart, polisiewoordvoerder, s\u00ea \u2019n saak is Sondag aanhangig gemaak, maar die fiets is nog nie teruggevind nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ghallam s\u00ea hy is gewaarsku oor misdaad in die gebied en daarom het hy sy fiets vasgemaak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het al deur baie plekke in Afrika gery, insluitend Ghana, Nigeri\u00eb, Gaboen, die Kongo, Angola en Namibi\u00eb. Van al die plekke waar ek was, het ek nie gedink dit sal hier (in Jeffreysbaai) gebeur nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ghallam s\u00ea hy het die fiets in \u2019n toerfiets met rakke omskep om sy tent, kombuisgoed, slaapsak en klere van 68 kg te kan dra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie fiets noem ek Mama Africa en dit is soos my vrou. Sy is heelpad saam met my.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ghallam s\u00ea hoewel Mama Africa al sy \u201ctweede vrou\u201d is nadat hy in \u2019n ligte botsing in Nigeri\u00eb betrokke was, was di\u00e9 sy gunsteling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy eerste fiets is in Nigeri\u00eb afgeskryf. \u2019n Motor het oor die fiets gery en ek moes \u2019n nuwe een kry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het gehoop die tweede fiets, my tweede vrou, sal my deursien op die Afrika-toer. Ek hoop nou die derde vrou is die een wat ek kan hou,\u201d skerts Ghallam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea \u2019n radiostasie in Johannesburg het intussen aangebied om hom te help om \u2019n nuwe fiets te koop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFietse is baie duur, maar ek moet \u2019n fiets kry om my toer te voltooi. Ek gaan nie hierdeur gestop word nie, want daar is nog so baie wat ek wil sien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c \u2019n Mens kan nie in dieselfde land gebore word en doodgaan nie. Die w\u00eareld is te groot daarvoor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sodra Ghallam sy nuwe fiets kry, is hy van plan om koers te kies na George, Knysna en Kaapstad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKaapstad is die een plek in Afrika waarvan ek droom. Dit is my eindpunt hier. Daarna vlieg ek na Madagaskar, dan die Seychelle-eilande en laastens Tanzani\u00eb.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ghallam wil daarna Suid-Amerika op sy fiets verken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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