Vir Margaret Botha sal jy nie sommer sonder \u2018n stuk breiwerk in die hand te\u00ebkom nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy woon al die afgelope 46 jaar op Despatch en so, op die maat van die ritmiese geklik van haar breipenne, ontvou haar storie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy maak gebruik van bokhaar en suiwer wol en haar handewerk het net soos haar familie al ver gereis: van die Oos-Kaap tot in die Wes-Kaap; selfs al die pad tot in Engeland, Ciprus, en in dorpies langs die Mediterreense See. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy liefde vir brei kom van my ouma af. Toe ek vier jaar oud was, het sy my begin leer hoe om te brei, te hekel en naaldwerk te doen. Sy het haar ou Singer naaimasjien van Engeland af gebring en van kleins af het ek haar gehelp om some in te sit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Margaret se liefde vir brei is dig met haar liefde vir haar Britse afkoms en die reise van haar voorvaders verweef. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar pa is in 1909 in Oldham, Engeland, gebore. Hy het onder meer in katoenmeulens gewerk en later jare in Malta ge\u00ebindig, waar hy sy trouvrou ontmoet het. Aan die begin van die Tweede W\u00eareldoorlog moes hulle uit Malta vlug en het via die Suez-kanaal na Egipte gegaan. Vandaar is hulle na Durban waar hulle in \u2018n vlugtelingkamp gewoon het voordat Margaret se pa werk in Oos-Londen gekry het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was in di\u00e9 Ooskus-stad se hawe waar van Margaret se kosbaarste herinneringe nog helder in haar gedagtes vasgevang is. Haar pa, wat ook \u2018n Anglikaanse predikant was, het gereeld by die Seamen\u2019s Institute gaan werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy het gereeld pastorale sorg aan die skeepskapteine van die Union Castle Line skepe verleen wanneer hulle anker in Oos-Londen se hawe gegooi het. As kind het ek saamgegaan en die pragtige skepe met hul gebo\u00eb spiraaltrappe en trapleunings het my gefassineer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEn die elegante kelners met hul wit handskoene wat ons tydens etes met skeepskapteine bedien het bly my nog altyd by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk droom nou nog daarvan om \u2018n skeepsvaart om die w\u00eareld te onderneem.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Margaret het nou wel nog nooit op haar skeepsvaart gegaan nie, maar het al vele vlugte na die anderkant van die w\u00eareld onderneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar groot verlange na familie en herkoms word ten minste een keer \u2018n jaar so gestil wanneer sy Engeland besoek. Dit is daar waar haar twee seuns en vier kleinkinders vir hulle \u201cGranny\u201d van Despatch wag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is lief vir die Engelse platteland, die westelike deel van Londen, die mooie Teemsrivier en die groen parke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar wanneer \u2018n mens se wortels op twee plekke geplant is, is daar \u2018n dubbele gevoel van behoort. Volgende maand b\u00eare di\u00e9 vrou van Despatch vir \u2018n wyle haar breipenne in die vliegtuig se vragruim voor sy die drade van haar familie weer in Engeland gaan optel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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