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Hy het terwyl hy in die spoorwegpolisie was, kruis-en-dwars oor die land en selfs in Namibi\u00eb diens gedoen en 23 keer van huise verwissel. Op \u2019n stadium toe hy in Durban diens gedoen het was hy in beheer van 4 000 spoorwegpolisie-reserviste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar is nie baie van ons oor nie en manne gaan van regoor die land kom na di\u00e9 re\u00fcnie. Al wat op die program is, is kuier en nogmaals kuier. Natuurlik ook lekker eet,\u201d s\u00ea Slabbert, wat in 1954 by die spoorwegpolisie aangesluit het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs ek so na die besprekings kyk lyk dit vir my ek gaan die oudste ou daar wees. Die oudste lewende Sporie, Lukas Beukes is 90, maar hy sal nie re\u00fcnie toe kom nie. \u2018Triplple J\u2019 van Vuuren, \u2019n destydse kommissaris van die spoorwegpolisie, was die oudste lid op 97, maar hy is verlede jaar oorlede.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Slabbert is die spoorwegpolisie destyds gestig omdat die gewone polisie nie di\u00e9 diens ook kon behartig nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn die 1950s het die Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorwe\u00eb geblom en eenvoudig ontplof wat uitbreiding en werksvoorsiening betref. Daar was \u2019n stasie op omtrent elke dorp regoor die land en waar \u2019n stasie was, was daar spoorwegpolisie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDiefstal was groot. Later jare toe ek in die Baai \u2019n kaptein by die speuroffisiere was het ons ook heelwat moord- en bedrogsake gedoen,\u201d s\u00ea Slabbert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maar bedrog en omkopery binne die spoorwegpolisiediens was in daardie jare ongeken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar was soveel dissipline. 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