Sy stem het stil geraak, maar sy gees sal voortleef. Abdul Tajoodien, oftewel Oom T, was vir baie jare \u2019n vriend van Weskus Nuus<\/i> en ons het oor die jare verskeie projekte saam met die ikoniese figuur aangepak. Hy was ook die koerant se grootste kritikus en in dieselfde asem sy grootste vriend. Weskus Nuus<\/i> het by verskillende organisasies en leiers kers opgesteek oor hul verhouding met en herinneringe aan di\u00e9 \u201cvader van duisende\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janine Passenz van Survivors Haven s\u00ea: \u201cMr Tajoodien, soos ons hom genoem het, was nie net \u2019n gemeenskapsleier nie, maar ook \u2019n pa vir soveel mense. As SHF was ons gese\u00ebnd om Oom T deel van ons te h\u00ea. Hy was nie altyd die maklikste mens nie \u2013 ons het soms sommer baie verskil en gestry, maar hy het \u2019n hart van goud gehad. Ons kan kli\u00ebnte sien by \u2019n kantoor wat hy vir ons borg. Mr Tajoodien was verskriklik oor tyd; jy kon hom nooit laat wag as ons na \u2019n vergadering toe gaan nie. Hy ry weg, net om by die vergadering te hoor ons is \u2019n uur vroeg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy was one of a kind<\/i>. Hy het dieselfde passie gehad oor GBV (geslagsgeweld) en ons uitgetrap as kli\u00ebnte moes wag. We will treasure his memories forever. Rest In Power!<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fiona Abrahams, voormalige ANC-raadslid, s\u00ea: \u201cMr. Tajoodien was deel van my lewe nog voordat ek in politiek betrokke geraak het \u2013 nog in ons Jeugforum-dae. Toe ek die politieke w\u00eareld betree, was hy nie net \u2019n mentor nie, maar het my as sy dogter beskou. Hy het my behoorlik op my tone gehou en toegesien dat ek deliver<\/i>, en het met soveel vertroue mense na my verwys. Hy het in my geglo. Hy\u2019t ook verskriklik baie geskel en was nie altyd \u2019n maklike mens nie, maar ek is baie dankbaar vir sy rol in my lewe. Woorde kan nie die leemte beskryf nie. Hamba kahle<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JP Smith, burgemeesterskomiteelid vir veiligheid, s\u00ea: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOom T was \u2019n kampvegter vir die veiligheid van sy gemeenskap. Die man het nooit geskroom om \u2019n ding op sy naam te noem nie en sou ook nooit \u2019n lappie om \u2019n gesonde vinger draai nie, maar die belangrikste was om probleme diplomaties op te los. Sy humeur \u2013 somtyds aggressief, dog altyd vriendelik \u2013 sal gewis gemis word. Hy was legendaries en groter as die lewe. Ons het een van ons grootstes verloor; mag hy nooit vergeet word nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reagen Allen, die Wes-Kaapse LUR vir gemeenskapsveiligheid en polisieoorsig, s\u00ea, \u201cHoewel my gedagtes en gebede in hierdie tyd by die familie is, vertrou ek hulle sal vertroosting vind in die feit dat sy nalatenskap sal voortleef deur al die GPF\u2019s en veiligheid- belanghebbendes wat hy deur die jare ge\u00efnspireer en ondersteun het. Ons is dit nou aan Oom T verskuldig om die aflosstokkie oor te neem en saam met die regering voort te gaan om buurtwagte, GPF\u2019s en geakkrediteerde veiligheidorganisasies te ondersteun en te ontwikkel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Atlantis-polisie het in \u2019n gesamentlike verklaring ges\u00ea: \u201cAs voorsitter van die Atlantis GPF was hy wel bekend aan die gemeenskap vir sy omgee-hart en aktiewe betrokkenheid by die gemeenskap deur verskeie projekte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOm misdaad in Atlantis en omliggende gebiede te bekamp, het hy verseker dat buurtwaglede in hul honderde kom om in brandpuntgebiede sigbaar te wees en aan gesamentlike optredes deel te neem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Tajoodien was passievol oor goeie vennootskap tussen die polisie en die gemeenskap en wou altyd goeie dienslewering aan die gemeenskap h\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy was \u2019n mentor, \u2019n vriend, \u2019n vaderfiguur en \u2019n inspirasie vir so baie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns by Atlantis-polisiekantoor gaan hom gewis mis. Ons het soveel by hom geleer. Ongelukkig het hy ook soveel saam met hom graf toe geneem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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