\u2019n Groot man met \u2019n ewe groot hart wat vir die mense n\u00e1 aan hom \u2013 sy gesin, sy familie en die lede van sy motorfietsklub \u2013 \u2019n anker teen die lewe se storms was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul Pretorius (47), die klubpresident van die Megaforce Weskus-motorfiets\u00adklub en die Kaapse Streekpresident van Megaforce Suid-Afrika, het Saterdag 15 Februarie naby Klawer met sy motorfiets verongeluk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is ernstig beseer toe hy omstreeks 17:15 met sy motorfiets om \u2019n draai teen \u2019n aankomende motor se bestuurskant gebots het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Noodpersoneel was vinnig op die toneel en het bykans \u2019n uur lank probeer om Pretorius te red, maar dit was tevergeefs. Hy het gesterf met sy seun, Paul Jnr. Pretorius (23), en van die klub se bestuur en ander lede om hom. Die botsing het net 500 meter van hul bestemming by die Nama Bike Camp naby Klawer gebeur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog \u2019n lid van die klub, Edward Kruger, het ook geval as gevolg van die ongeluk en sy motorfiets is afgeskryf, maar hy is ongedeerd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pretorius se dood is \u2019n geweldige verlies vir die motorfietsryw\u00eareld aan die Weskus. Hy het sentraal gestaan om die klubs in die Weskus te herenig en het oral waar hy gegaan het, vriendskapsbande gesmee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul was nog klein toe sy ouers van Pretoria na De Doorns naby Worcester getrek het, en hy het matriek aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Drostdy in Worcester voltooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir sy vrou, Emmy Pretorius (45), is dit \u2019n geweldige slag. Hulle twee was onafskeidbaar nadat hul paaie 27 jaar gelede gekruis het. Hulle is in 2001 getroud en die gesin het in Junie 2011 Velddrif toe getrek, waar Paul PePe Motors in Kerkstraat geopen het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het vir \u2019n paar jaar in Afrika gewerk en met sy terugkeer in 2019 het hy The Works Automotive, \u2019n werktuigkunde-onderneming, in Vredenburg geopen en die gesin het daarheen verhuis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul het tussen 2021 en 2023 ook aan ovaalbaanwedrenne by die Weskus-ovaalbaan in \u2019n Ford Sierra in die \u201cHeavy Metals\u201d-klas deelgeneem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die egpaar se twee kinders, Paul Jnr. en Lize-Mari (21), is verpletter, want hul pa was hul held en rolmodel. Hulle het albei aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Hopefield gematrikuleer, waar Lize-Mari vandag werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy onbaatsugtige liefde vir Emmy, hul kinders, hul familie en die lede van sy klub sal Emmy altyd bybly. \u201cHy was net s\u00f3 \u2019n goeie mens. Hy sou sy lewe vir ons gegee het \u2013 ons was sy \u00e1lles gewees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir Gerrie Pieterse, die voorsitter van die Weskus-motorfietsvereniging, was Paul \u2019n groot aanwins sedert hy sowat \u2019n jaar gelede as ondervoorsitter verkies is. \u201cHy was \u2019n man op wie se woord staatgemaak kon word, met groot insae in die plaaslike motorfietsklubs. Sy impak en leierskap het nie net in sy eie klub nie, maar in die hele motorfietsgemeenskap respek afgedwing \u2013 sonder dat hy probeer het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns gaan sy insae, logika en geselskap baie mis. Ons harte gaan uit na sy familie en ons glo dat God se genade oor hulle sal wees,\u201d het Pieterse ges\u00ea..<\/span> Begrafnisre\u00eblings word nog getref en besonderhede daaroor sal op Megaforce Weskus se Facebook-blad gedeel word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2019n Groot man met \u2019n ewe groot hart wat vir die mense n\u00e1 aan hom \u2013 sy gesin, sy familie en die lede van sy motorfietsklub \u2013 \u2019n anker teen die lewe se storms 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