{"id":43740,"date":"2025-03-10T06:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/weskuskind-nou-landdros-20250305-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:46:27","slug":"weskuskind-nou-landdros-20250305-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/weskuskind-nou-landdros-20250305-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weskuskind nou landdros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Waar en hoe het jou liefde vir die reg begin? My liefde vir die reg het begin as \u2019n klein vyfjarige dogtertjie. My oorlede ouma Angela Odendaal was baie lief om <span>Judge Judy <\/span>te kyk. Dit het ook een van my gunstelinge geword; veral wanneer sy daai hamer so geslaan het, het dit net iets in my wakker gemaak. Ek het vir myself ges\u00ea, eendag as ek groot is wil ek ook die hamer slaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wat het jou studies alles behels? Ek was \u2019n leerder by Panorama Prim\u00ear, daarna Ho\u00ebrskool Weston toe. Toe ek op Weston kom, het ek geweet regte is my passie en liefde. Ek het baie hard geleer op ho\u00ebrskool en is daarna aanvaar by Nelson Mandela-universiteit. As \u2019n Weskuskind was dit \u2019n baie groot besluit vir my ma om my na \u2019n vreemde stad te stuur, sonder enige familie of vriende. Maar soos ek altyd vir my ma ges\u00ea het, mamma hoef nie bang te wees nie, ek gaan dit maak, want ek gaan vir my droomloopbaan. Uiteindelik het ek my regsgraad voltooi op die ouderdom van 23 en begin werk as kandidaatprokureur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tans is jy \u2019n landdros in George, hoe was jy eers betrokke in die Weskus? Ek was \u2019n plaaslike prokureur by die Regshulpraad, Legal Aid, soos ons almal dit ken in Vredenburg, van 2018 tot en met 2024 en het howe soos Vredenburg, Laaiplek en Hopefield gedien. Ek het die landdrospos in George in Junie 2024 gekry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jy is een van die jongste landdroste in George, wat beteken dit vir jou? Om eerlik te wees, toe ek die oproep ontvang het, kon ek nie glo ek word \u2019n landdros op die ouderdom van 34 nie. Ek het baie gehuil van blydskap en dit wys net God is goed en harde werk dra vrugte. Ek weet my kollega noem my \u2019n baba, maar ek beskou dit nie as \u2019n belediging nie, ek sien dit as \u2019n kompliment. Dit wys, ongeag hoe jonk jy is, jy kan dit doen. Ek leer baie by my ouer kollegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die rol as landdros kan gewoonlik gesien <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>word as \u2019n mans-gedomineerde beroep. Wat is jou denke hieroor? Dit is so waar, wanneer \u2019n mens nog kyk na die howe is dit steeds meer mans as vroue. My ervaring is dat mense manlike landdroste meer respekteer en vrees as vroue. 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