Min dorpe het deesdae nog sy eie lewende legendariese inwoner, maar Klapmuts kan wel spog met sy legendariese kroegman, Duggie Ntotise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is dus met baie nostalgie dat talle gereelde besoekers aan een van die oudste bestaande kroe\u00eb in die land, die Klapmuts-hotel, nou van hierdie geliefde kroegman afskeid neem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op 81-jarige ouderdom skink Duggie al vir langer as 60 jaar die voggies agter die kroegtoonbank vir talle geslagte boere, sakelui, politici en sommer net Jan en alleman in die gewilde kroeg van die Klapmuts-hotel \u2013 alles onder die wakende oog van die bekende plakkaat van \u2019n kaal vrou wat al dekades lank bo die deur hang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duggie vertel stout dat baie mans deur die jare haar telefoonnommer wou h\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die dekor van die kroeg is al dekades nog dieselfde \u2013 ook die kenmerkende knipmesse en Disprins wat agter die toonbank te koop is, knus langs die groot versameling drank wat aangebied word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duggie ken elke millimeter van die kroeg, ook die meeste van sy gereelde kli\u00ebnte se drankies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duggie is ook so \u2019n deel van die kroeg dat die talle gereelde besoekers wat hier vir \u2019n sopie aanklop, baie vinnig vir enige ander kroegman vra: \u201cWaar is Duggie?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En keer op keer ontvang Duggie sy \u201caanhangers\u201d met \u2019n bre\u00eb glimlag en \u2019n glinster in die oog. Hy sal ook baie vinnig vir jou uit \u201csy\u201d kroeg boender as jy te veel agter die blad het of rumoerig begin raak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Issie Hodes, die destydse grootbaas van die Klapmuts-hotel, het die 20-jarige Duggie, kort nadat hy uit die ou Transkei in die Kaap geland het, aangestel. Hy het eers in die kombuis gewerk, toe as kelner en van 1979 af as kroegman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaardie vroe\u00eb tye,\u201d onthou Duggie, \u201cwas \u2019n bietjie swaar, so met \u2019n swartman agter die counter<\/i>. Maar die mense wat ingekom het, was altyd happy<\/span> met my.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy kan baie stories vertel wat oor di\u00e9 ses dekades heen strek \u2013 meestal lekker, vermaaklike stories, maar ook \u2019n paar hartseerstories daarby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die jare het egter aangestap en Duggie wil vir \u2019n verandering \u2019n bietjie rus. En op die ouderdom van 81 mag hy maar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy gaan wel geweldig deur talle van sy gereelde kli\u00ebnte gemis word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Een hiervan is die bekende skrywer en storieverteller Johann C. Bakkes. Bakkes het in een van sy kortverhale oor Duggie geskryf. Hy s\u00ea hy stap oudergewoonte eendag die kroeg in en se vir Oom Duggie hy het \u2019n storie oor hom geskryf. Hierop antwoord Duggie: \u201cJohannes, ek kan nie lees nie, maar my o\u00eb is vol!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nog \u2019n skrywer wat die kroeg gereeld besoek, is Jean Oosthuizen: \u201cOom Duggie het oor die jare so deel van Klapmuts se kroeg geword soos wat daai laagwater-poster<\/i> teen die kroeg se muur deel is daarvan. \u2019n Mens kan jou skaars daardie watergat sonder oom Duggie indink.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy was veel meer as net \u2019n kroegman. Vir menige kroegvlieg was oom Duggie oor die jare biegvader, storieverteller en luisteraar par excellence<\/i> \u2013 veel beter as wat menige dominee ooit sou kan droom om te wees. Oom Duggie se kroeg was \u2019n plek waar menige dors besoeker sonder vrees vir veroordeling kon afpak oor hul lief en leed met die wete what happens in Klapmuts, stays in Klapmuts<\/i>. Met hom agter die toonbank was daar altyd \u2019n gewillige oor wat luister. By oom Duggie se kroeg het jy veilig gevoel, want daar was veel meer as net \u2019n lafenis vir die keel \u2013 lafenis vir die siel is ook opgedis. Mag daar iewers in daardie legendariese kroeg n\u00e1 oom Duggie se aftrede \u2019n plaatjie ter ere van hom aangebring word ter nagedagtenis aan \u2019n bedreigde spesie van ware kroegmanne, van wie hy waarskynlik een van die laastes was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die oud-joernalis Francois L\u00f6tter, wat gereeld op \u2019n Vrydagmiddag saam met skrywers, musikante en dies meer hier \u201cvergader\u201d, het onthou: \u201cEk was die eerste keer in die Klapmuts-hotel se kroeg toe die skrywer en my vriend Johan Bakkes my genooi het om een Vrydag saam met hom \u2019n bier te gaan drink. Dit het \u2019n kwartaallikse \u2013 soms meer, soms minder gereelde \u2013 samekoms geword, en talle ander skrywers, ensovoorts het by ons aangesluit. Die Klubmutse is gebore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHulle het van oral gekom en saam het ons gesels oor die dinge wat ons pla en wat ons dra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOom Duggie was altyd daar, behalwe as hy met verlof was. Ek kan nie onthou dat hy ooit ni\u00e9 daar was omdat hy siek was nie. Hy was maar net daar. Net soms op druk tye \u2013 gewoonlik op \u2019n Vrydag \u2013 het hy hulp gehad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOom Duggie was nooit haastig of ongeduldig nie en jy moes ook nooit haastig of ongeduldig wees as Oom Duggie sy tyd gevat het om jou bier uit die yskas of jou kleingeld uit die kasregister te kry nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKwaad of bakleierig het ek hom ook nooit gesien nie. Hy het sy werk rustig en met \u2019n ouw\u00eareldse hoflikheid gedoen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns sal Oom Duggie mis. Maar ons sal steeds Klapmuts-hotel toe gaan, al werk hy nie meer daar nie. Miskien sal ons hom die eerste keer n\u00e1 sy aftrede saamnooi sodat hy kan voel hoe dit voel om bedien te word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie Klapmuts-hotel se kroeg sal vir die Klubmutse altyd Oom Duggie se kroeg bly,\u201d voeg L\u00f6tter by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gerrit Rautenbach vertel dat oom Duggie altyd \u201cjou koue ietsie\u201d reg gehad het wanneer jy by die kroeg inloop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEn hy onthou jou naam. Met sy skuifelstappie en kugstem sorteer hy almal wat wagtend vir \u2019n ietsie is uit en vra hoe dit met jou gaan. En as jy hom vra of alles goed is sy kant antwoord hy met sy kuggie: \u201cJa, natuurlik. Altyd.\u201d \u201cOom Duggie, mag dit steeds altyd met jou goed gaan. Ons drink \u2019n loopdop op jou, oom Duggie,\u201d het Rautenbach ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die nuwe eienaar van die Klapmuts-hotel, Mark Alport, het besluit om Duggie tydens sy aftrede te ondersteun en op 2 September \u2019n veiling \u201cDoenit vir Duggie\u201d ter ere van hierdie steunpilaar van die hotel te hou. Talle opwindende items sal deur die veilingmeester Tiny van Rensburg opgeveil word. Die veiling beloof groot pret met kosstalletjies en dies meer. Die dag begin om 13:00 en die veiling om 16:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Trust is vir Duggie gestig en alle opbrengste sal daarin gedeponeer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vir skenkings (geldelik of veilingitems) kontak Deidre by 072 959 5870; Lorretta by 072 3918936; Tiny by 071 152 9753 of Mark by 074 797 7268. En dalk, maar net dalk, gaan Duggie \u2019n gas-verskyning agter die kroegtoonbank maak en vir oulaas roep: \u201cKom ons drink!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Min dorpe het deesdae nog sy eie lewende legendariese inwoner, maar Klapmuts kan wel spog met sy legendariese kroegman, Duggie 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