{"id":44282,"date":"2024-08-15T12:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/agter-die-skerms-van-duiwesport-in-die-oos-kaap-20240814-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:58:00","slug":"agter-die-skerms-van-duiwesport-in-die-oos-kaap-20240814-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/agter-die-skerms-van-duiwesport-in-die-oos-kaap-20240814-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Agter die skerms van duiwesport in die Oos-Kaap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"InfoBlock\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_7452a439\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\u201cDie eerste gedagte wat by my opkom n\u00e1 die versoek om iets te skryf oor \u2019n oudonderwyser se nuwe boek is \u2018Hoekom dan nou nie?\u2019 Toe sien ek waaroor die boek gaan en dit word \u2018O gaats, wat weet ek nou van duiwesport?\u2019\u201d Anika de Beer het wel \u2019n ding of twee daaroor geleer toe sy \u2019n draai by Ben Gerber gaan maak het om oor sy nuwe boek te gesels.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit was vir Ben Gerber \u2019n historiese oomblik toe hy sy nuwe boek, pas van die drukkers afgelewer, in sy eie hande kon voel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy het in 2011 eendag agter sy rekenaar gaan sit en begin skryf aan <em>Die Duifboer en sy Geveerde Vriende<\/em>. Sekerlik het hy nooit gedink dit sou dertien jaar wees voor die eerste uitgawe voltooi is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerber, \u2019n inwoner van Despatch en self \u2019n duiweboer wat gereeld aan wedvlugte deelneem, het \u2019n begeerte gehad om die geskiedenis van die sport neer te pen saam met die kennis en raad van die duiweboere in die Oos-Kaap voordat dit verlore gaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie boek is \u2019n bietjie biografies van aard om \u2019n storielyn te skep. Maar die klem in die boek val nie op my nie,\u201d het hy vertel. \u201cMy visie is om eers al die ouer duiweboere uit te vra oor die sport voordat hulle nie meer met ons is nie, sodat daardie inligting verewig vasgel\u00ea is. Die nuwer geslag kan altyd later bykom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerber is die eerste skrywer van \u2019n duiweboek in die Oos-Kaap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Die Duifboer en sy Geveerde Vriende<\/em> is ook die enigste duiweboek wat in Suid-Afrika in meer as tien jaar gepubliseer is. \u2019n A4-grootte Afrikaans duiweboek met 99 kleurfoto\u2019s, dis enig in sy soort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En dit is vir beginner-duiweboere geskryf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie beginners wat leesstof soek, kry dit nie sommer nie. Dit wat daar is, is baie lank terug geskryf en jy sukkel om daai boeke in die hande te kry,\u201d het Gerber ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buiten sy eie ervaring met die sport, is daar ook gedeeltes in die boek wat handel oor duiwe-veilings, die geskiedenis van die Despatch Posduifklub wat vandag nog bestaan, die jargon wat duiweboere gebruik en sowat 47 profiele van duiweboere in die Oos-Kaap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die profiele is een van die redes hoekom Gerber so lank aan die boek geskryf het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het duiweboere besoek en vraelyste uitgedeel en hulle uitgevra om my feite reg te kry,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die duiweboere wat hy ondervra het, het staaltjies en wenke met hom gedeel oor hoe om te weet wanneer \u2019n duif \u2019n goeie duif is, wat jy moet doen om \u2019n wedvlug te wen, hoe om wedvlugduiwe te voer en wat n\u00e1 die wedvlugseisoen kom, om net \u2019n paar te noem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs die beginners mooi tussen die lyne lees, gaan hy genoeg informasie kry om \u2019n suksesvolle duiweboer te word. Jy kan by elke hoofstuk in die boek iets vir jouself vat en toepas en bietjie eksperimenteer tot dit vir jou werk. Want daar is dalk basiese dinge wat elke duiweboer moet weet en doen, maar daar is nie net een wenresep nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHierdie boek gaan nie oor kampioen-duiweboere nie. Dit gaan oor die gewone, nederige, kleinskaal duiweboere. Die kampioen-duiweboere wat ook deel van die boek is, is net \u2019n bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerber, \u2019n oudonderwyser van die HTS Daniel Pienaar, het selfs \u2019n hoofstuk in die boek geskryf waar hy vrae wat sy leerders oor duiwesport gevra het, beantwoord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk wil met die boek iets teruggee vir die duiweboer in die Oos-Kaap. Ek hoop dat beginners ook daaruit kan leer met die doel dat hulle dan nie die sport sal verlaat nie, want dit is \u2019n kwynende sport. So die boek se verdere doel is om die mense te motiveer om by die sport te bly en ook om tot die sport toe te tree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoewel die fokus van <em>Die Duifboer en sy Geveerde Vriende<\/em> hoofsaaklik op die Oos-Kaap en sy duiweboere is, is Gerber vasbeslote dat hy dit verder wil vat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is \u2019n lewenstaak vir my gewees wat nog nie voltooi is nie. Ek gaan die boek vorentoe nog opdateer en ek gaan ook boeke oor duiwesport in ander provinsies skryf as hierdie een \u2019n sukses is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Die Duifboer en sy Geveerde Vriende\u2019&nbsp; is nou een  van vier<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerber het in 2021 as onderwyser afgetree en sy groot visie is nou om voltyds te skryf nadat hy dit vir soveel jare net deeltyds kon doen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buiten sy nuutste boek het hy al drie ander geskryf, twee digbundels en \u2019n jeugverhaal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het grootgeword met <em>Trompie en die Boksombende<\/em>. My begeerte was om vir die moderne jongmense \u2019n ander weergawe daarvan te gee: <em>Bennie en die Uilbende<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_75b596b2\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ben gerber \" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/12109\/0537d23652fd4cc1b0a271bfa21b463d.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/22eb79b631c842c7809cc9521f88aa46.jpg\" title=\"Twee van Ben Gerber se ander boeke, \u2019n digbundel en \u2019n jeugverhaal.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Twee van Ben Gerber se ander boeke, \u2019n digbundel en \u2019n jeugverhaal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\">Foto: Anika de Beer<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Die jeugverhaal is op ware verhale en gebeurtenisse baseer en handel oor Gerber se stout kinderdae in die ou Southdene en Suideinde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Die Duifboer en sy Geveerde Vriende<span id=\"U102301575000oHD\" style=\"font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;\" xml_lang=\"af\"> is beslis \u2019n groot verskil van die ander drie, om te skryf \u00e9n om te lees.<\/span><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDi\u00e9 is my aktiewe stokperdjie. Dis \u2019n heel ander ervaring. Ek het net begin skryf. Elke keer as ek voor my rekenaar gesit het, het ek gevoel ek is besig met iets mooi; ek is besig met iets mooi en ek kan nie nou terugdraai nie,\u201d het hy van die duiweboek vertel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die proses met hierdie boek het hom ook \u2019n ding of twee geleer. Die duiweboek is self deur Gerber gepubliseer en hy het met moeite tegniese vaardighede aangeleer terwyl hy met sy rekenaar baklei het oor tikkery, bladuitleg en voorblad ontwerp. En om nie te praat van die proeflees nie\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>Om \u2019n kopie van <\/span> <em>Die Duifboer en sy Geveerde Vriende<\/em> <span> in die hande te kry, besoek Arthur\u2019s Pet Shop of Van\u2019s Pet Shop in Gqeberha, of kontak Ben Gerber by gerberbernie9@gmail.com.<\/span> <span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDie eerste gedagte wat by my opkom n\u00e1 die versoek om iets te skryf oor \u2019n oudonderwyser se nuwe boek is \u2018Hoekom dan nou nie?\u2019 Toe sien ek waaroor die boek gaan en dit word \u2018O gaats, wat weet ek nou van 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