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Die dorp se erfenis is ge-skend,\u201d s\u00ea Frans Swanepoel, \u2019n plaaslike sakeman wat die belange van die dorp op sy hart dra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie oorspronklike slot by die deur is verwyder en iemand het \u2019n ander slot aangebring. Di\u00e9 slot is geknip en daarna is \u2019n ander slot en ketting aangebring wat binne \u2019n week \u00f3\u00f3k geknip is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Swanepoel is daar heelwat erfenisstukke skoonveld wat onvervangbaar is. Onder di\u00e9 stukke is die drie groot plakboeke waarin alle dorps-artikels geplak is sedert die ontstaan van Despatch in 1945. Die oorspronklike burgemeestersketting het ook voete gekry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWie gaan daardie plakboeke vat en hoekom? Die boeke is groot, omtrent \u2019n meter lank, dik en baie swaar. Die h\u00e9le geskiendenis van Despatch is nou weg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVandale sou beslis nie di\u00e9 boeke gevat het nie, tensy hulle baie graag alles oor die dorp se geskiedenis wil oplees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn die sport afdeling is net Johan Botha, ons Protea-krieketspeler, se krieketklere weg. Die ou Suid-Afrikaanse oranje-blanje-blou landsvlag is weg. So-ook \u2019n ou geweer en saalsak wat uit die Anglo Boere-oorlog kom. Die goed was deel van die De Mist Kommando se versameling,\u201d s\u00ea Swanepoel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die koperplaat van die bekende Totteridge-huis wat \u2019n nasionale gedenkwaardigheid was voordat dit afgebrand het, is ook weg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs ek so kyk na van die goed wat weg is kry ek die idee dit mag dalk iewers in iemand se kroeg of braaiplek hang,\u201d s\u00ea Swanepoel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens hom is daar \u2019n alarm geinstalleer maar dit is nie geaktiveer nie. Atlas sekuri-teit het hom ses maande gelede gekontak en aangebied om kameras aan te bring en om gratis di\u00e9 museum te monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaarvoor moes ek \u2019n amptelike brief van die munisipaliteit kry vir toestemming om di\u00e9 sekuriteit en kameras aan te bring. Niemand kon of wil my help nie,\u201d s\u00ea Swanepoel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raadslid Francois Greyling s\u00ea, \u201cdie hele situasie met die Despatch Museum is nie regtig iemand se skuld nie. Nadat die    museumkomitee ontbind het, het dinge agteruit gegaan en die res was \u2019n sameloop van \u2019n reeks onvoorsiene gebeure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy het bevestig dat Atlas-sekuriteit aangebied het om op hulle onkoste \u2019n alarm en kameras in die museum aan te bring en om dit gratis te monitor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie gebou behoort aan die munisipaliteit en is in \u2019n goeie toestand. Die probleem is die inhoud behoort aan die nasionale erfenisraad en nie meer aan die mense wat dit ge-skenk het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit val onder provinsiale bemagtiging en is buite ons beheer. Ons mag die inhoud nie verwyder nie, ons moet h\u00falle toestemming kry,\u201d s\u00ea Greyling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie museum is nie my verantwoorde-  likheid nie. Probleme het begin toe die     museumkomitee ontbind het. Hulle het ges\u00ea mense stel nie meer belang om dit te besoek nie. Boonop was daar ook nie meer fondse om dit aan die gang te hou nie. Daarna het hulle die sleutels by ons kantoor afgegee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greyling s\u00ea hy sal wykskomiteefondse bewillig indien \u2019n museumkomitee weer op die been gebring word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar is baie werk agter die skerms gedoen om die situasie te help beredder. 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