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Die gemeenskap van St. Helenabaai en die rugbygemeenskap is in rou gedompel n\u00e1 die dood van drie plaaslike inwoners \u00e9n die besering van n\u00f3g familielede in ‘n motorongeluk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy Fillies, ‘n kranige St. Helenabaai-rugbyspeler, sy ma, Heidi Alexander, en sy suster, Rach\u00e8ma Fillies, het in ‘n motorongeluk in die vroe\u00eb oggendure van Vrydag 8 Augustus gesterf. Die tragiese gebeure het naby Wolseley plaasgevind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die wyle Randy Fillies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Volgens raadslid Tyrone Williams, woordvoerder van die familie, het die 4×4-bakkie waarin die familie onderweg na ‘n begrafnis in Mosselbaai was, reg van voor met ‘n vragmotor gebots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volgens Williams was daar sewe passasiers in die bakkie. “Tans is die pa, Peter Alexander, steeds in die hospitaal en veg hy om sy lewe. Die een kind is ook in hospitaal en nog twee kinders word gemonitor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die wyle Rach\u00e8ma Fillies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Die nuus van die ongeluk het soos ‘n veldbrand versprei en medelye op sosiale media het ingestroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die St. Helenabaai-rugbyklub het op hul Facebook-blad geplaas dat die St. Helenabaai gemeenskap, die rugbyklubfamilie en die hele rugbygemeenskap in diepe rou is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hierdie tragedie het ons almal hard getref en die hartseer l\u00ea swaar op ons harte. Ons het nie net geliefdes verloor nie, maar ook mense wat ons lewens en harte op \u2019n unieke en onuitwisbare manier aangeraak het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die wyle Heidi Alexander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In tye soos hierdie word ons herinner dat ons as gemeenskap en as klub meer as net spanmaats of bure is, ons is familie. Ons dra mekaar se laste, ons huil saam, en ons vind krag in mekaar se teenwoordigheid. Die nalatenskap van liefde, lojaliteit en passie vir rugby en vir St. Helenabaai wat Randy en Ma Heidi agterlaat, sal ons altyd dra en inspireer. Ons gedagtes en gebede is by Peter Alexander, die Fillies- en Alexander-families,” het die plasing gelees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams meen hy het al baie families gesien wat geliefdes verloor het, maar hierdie is ‘n heeltemal ander prentjie. “Die familie is platgeslaan en stukkend.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fillies\"
Peter Alexander veg tans vir sy lewe in die hospitaal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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