Foto: Verskaf<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cEk hou daarvan om met my hande te werk en kreatief te wees.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deur die jare het die Rautenbachs verseker dat hul besigheid tred gehou het met \u2019n era van tegnologiese ontwikkeling en die implementering daarvan in die werksplek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nou en dan sluip \u2019n nostalgiese ondertoon in in Gerrit se vertellinge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk onthou hoe my pa \u2019n sakrekenaar van oorsee af teruggebring het. Baie keer het my pa nie die sakrekenaar se berekeninge vertrou nie. Eers as hy op papier by dieselfde antwoord uitgekom het as die sakrekenaar, was hy oortuig daarvan dat dit korrek was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy onthou hoe sy pa \u2019n handgedrewe afrolmasjien met wasvelle gebruik het. Daarna het die fotokopieerder sy opwagting gemaak. Hul was ook een van die eerste besighede wat \u2019n faksmasjien gebruik het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOngelukkig is my pa oorlede voordat hy by rekenaars kon uitkom.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gerrit se ma, Sya Maria Rautenbach, was geheel en al betrokke by die breiwerk en naaldwerk op die fabrieksvloer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy ma was \u2019n vaardige vrou en \u2019n kwaai tannie!\u201d lag Gerrit. \u201cSy het my gestuur om masjiene reg te maak waarvan ek niks geweet het nie. Dan het ek maar voor die masjien gaan sit, oopgemaak en myself geleer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met Gerrit en Derick se agtergrond, kennis en kundigheid kan hul al die masjiene in die fabriek regmaak wanneer nodig en sien hul kans vir elke uitdaging. \u201cNiemand kan ons vertel dit kan nie gedoen word nie. As iets reggemaak moet word, maak ons self reg.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is hierdie kombinasie van trots, outydse waardes, vakmanskap en vaardigheid wat die besigheid se sukses verseker het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In vandag se verbruikersgedrewe kitsw\u00eareld, glo die besigheid steeds in volhoubaarheid en hergebruik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVir ons is niks belangriker as ho\u00eb kwaliteit en dienslewering nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar is soveel herinneringe opgesluit in di\u00e9 geboue. Die produktiewe geroesemoes van fabrieksgeluide \u2013 breimasjiene, naaimasjiene en die werknemers wat stik en skep en ontwerp \u2013 is deel van die Rautenbachs se leefw\u00eareld. Gerrit en Derick het as klein seuntjies sommer in bokse op die vloer aan die slaap geraak het en het as kleuters gefrustreerd geraak wanneer die wolletjies in hul loopringe se wiele verstrengel geraak het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deesdae sluit Gerrit se passies valskermsweef en avontuur motorfietsry in, maar wanneer sy \u201cbattery herlaai\u201d is, keer hy maar altyd weer terug na die familiebesigheid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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