\u2019n Staatsbegrafnis het Saterdag in die Paarl plaasgevind vir \u2019n lid van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag (SANW), wat drie weke gelede in \u2019n motorongeluk gesterf het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aubrey Erasmus (58) was een van vyf lede van die SANW wat hul lewe verloor het toe die bestuurder van \u2019n voertuig, waarin hulle Saterdag 17 September in Mpumalanga gery het, beheer verloor het nadat \u2019n voorband blykbaar gebars het. Die voertuig het \u2019n boom getref.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die oorledenes was deel van 9SAI (Suid-Afrikaanse Infanteriebataljon) wat onder Operasie Corona (grensbewaking) in Mpumalanga ontplooi was. Hulle was van Zonstral na die Macadamia- operasionele basis langs die Coopersdal-pad onderweg toe die ongeluk gebeur het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aubrey, wat al die jare by die weermag in Kaapstad gestasioneer was, was sedert Maart vanjaar in Mpumalanga om opleiding aan te bied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy was een van agt kinders wat in Amstelhof grootgeword het en was in Paulus Joubert Sekond\u00ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van sy ses susters, Esmarelda Gilfillian, het ges\u00ea toe haar broer in graad 10 was, het hy eendag verdwyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy is die oggend oudergewoonte in sy skoolklere uit die huis om skool toe te gaan, maar het middag se kant nooit by die huis uitgekom nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns ma, wat bekend was vir haar kwaai houding, was briesend. Hy het eers laat die aand daar aangekom \u2013 asvaal, want hy het geweet my ma gaan die josie in wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEn toe vertel hy ewe aan ons hy en \u2019n vriend is met die trein Kaap toe \u2013 na die hoofkwartier van die Kaapse Korps \u2013 en hy gaan weermag toe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aubrey het sy weermagloopbaan in 1984 op 18-jarige ouderdom begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Esmerelda was hy uit die staanspoor die toonbeeld van \u2019n soldaat \u2013 hardwerkend, gretig om te leer, en soos enige goeie soldaat uiters netjies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTot sy dood het nie eens sy vrou ooit sy klere gestryk of sy skoene ge-polish<\/em> nie. Hy het daarop aangedring dat net hy dit kan doen soos hy dit wil h\u00ea. Hierdie houding van hom was ook tipies van ons ma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verder s\u00ea Esmerelda haar broer was baie lief vir sy familie en het nooit sy rang \u201crondgegooi\u201d nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aubrey het vinnig deur die range in die weermag geklim, vanaf korporaal as jongeling, en ten tyde van sy dood was hy \u2019n streek-sersantmajoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSelfs met sy dood het vriende na my toe gekom en ges\u00ea hulle het nooit geweet hy het so \u2019n senior posisie in die weermag beklee nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aubrey sou einde van September terugkeer huis toe en dan in Januarie 2023 sy weermagstewels opgehang het, maar die noodlot het getref.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHy wou baie graag met sy aftrede \u2019n bietjie rus en weer by rugby betrokke raak. Hy het destyds nasionale weermagkleure in rugby gehad. 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