Daar is heelwat boeke in die Bellville-biblioteek wat al minder van di\u00e9 instelling gesien het as wat Saartjie Singh het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy was in die oggende daar toe die biblioteek oopmaak \u2013 klaar met vullis in die hand wat sy op pad soontoe opgetel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soos die dag aangegaan het, het sy skoongemaak, leners bygestaan en \u2019n klomp ander take voltooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar soos baie goeie stories \u2019n einde het, moes di\u00e9 algemene werker ook einde verlede jaar aftree nadat sy vir 32 jaar daar gewerk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sowat 40 mense het verlede week by die biblioteek byeengekom om van Saartjie afskeid te neem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy was \u2019n instelling self, beaam Marietjie Bessinger, die senior bibliotekaresse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c(Sy) het haar pad in almal se hart ingegrawe, en volgens die getuienis van die mense wat haar afskeid bygewoon het, was almal dit eens dat sy jou aangeraak het en deur haar optrede \u2019n blywende indruk op almal gemaak het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die biblioteek was eintlik \u2019n interessante plek vir iemand om te werk wat aanvanklik ongeletterd was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ongeletterd, miskien, maar verskriklik intelligent, s\u00ea haar nou oud-kollega, Paulita Sias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het altyd \u2019n mening oor alles,\u201d s\u00ea Bessinger, \u201cen sy weet van alles wat in die w\u00eareld gebeur\u201d \u2013 selfs toe sy ongeletterd was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Singh, \u2019n enkelma, het geweet van hard werk en het buiten haar gewone werk by die biblioteek ook na ure as huishulp gewerk om haar drie kinders te versorg en die beste moontlike skoolopleiding te gee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHulle is almal vandag suksesvol in wat hulle doen en dit is slegs deur haar toedoen,\u201d s\u00ea Bessinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sias s\u00ea sy bewonder Singh se deursettingsvermo\u00eb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het nog altyd ges\u00ea sy gaan vir haar \u2019n huis koop. Noudat sy aftree lyk dit of sy regtig een op die platteland gaan koop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bessinger en Sias s\u00ea \u2019n unieke eienskap van Singh is haar volstrekte weiering om enige Engels te praat. Sy sal met \u2019n Engels-magtige persoon praat, maar altyd in Afrikaans. Sy het, ten spyte van haar vol werkprogram, altyd vir mense in haar gemeenskap omgegee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns moes almal help om werk te soek vir iemand, of ons het klere gebring wat uitgedeel is aan mense wat niks het nie; selfs die rondloperhonde in haar buurt kry kos by haar,\u201d s\u00ea Bessinger. \u201cOns mag niks weggooi nie. Saartjie maak alles bymekaar om te herwin; sy maak teesakkies droog vir \u2019n werkskeppingsprojek, of le\u00eb toiletrolle vir skole in die omgewing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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