Die bou van die luukse Shelley Point Hotel, Spa en Gholfbaan in St. Helenabaai was \u2019n hartsaak, vertel die eienaar nadat di\u00e9 ikoniese hotel verlede week vroegoggend aan die brand geraak en tot op die grond afgebrand het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die ontwikkelaar, Gert Joubert, wat al \u2019n maand lank in en uit die hospitaal is weens gesondheidsprobleme, kon nog nie self die perseel besoek nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit gaan emosioneel baie moeilik vir hom wees, want die hotel was meer as \u2019n finansi\u00eble belegging vir hom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n kunswerk, \u2019n Mona Lisa<\/span>, wat uitgebrand het. Geld kan dit nie vervang nie. Dit is \u2019n persoonlike verlies, my skepping, wat verlore is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die brand het op Dinsdag 2 Januarie omstreeks 06:00 uitgebreek en sowat 200 gaste, sommige nog in nagklere, en personeellede genoodsaak om uit die hotel te vlug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens kapt. Tania Helfrich, polisiewoordvoerder, is niemand in die voorval beseer nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit is die belangrikste ding: dat daar nie lewensverlies was nie,\u201d het Joubert ges\u00ea. Hy het benadruk dat die personeel, wat almal hul werk kwyt is, uitbetaal gaan word, \u201cmeer as wat die staat vereis\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy noem die hoeveelheid tyd en aandag wat aan die kleinste besonderhede, soos persiese tapyte in elke kamer, spandeer is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit was die mooiste hotel in die w\u00eareld . . . wat ek nog gesien het . . . en ek kom vier of vyf keer per jaar oorsee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joubert beskryf die hotel as \u2019n onontdekte diamant, omdat hy meen Suid-Afrikaners het dit nie genoeg waardeer nie, juis omdat dit aan die Weskus was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs dit in die Kaap gestaan het, sou dit \u2019n heel ander waardering by mense gekry het; \u2019n profeet word mos nie in sy eie tyd ge\u00eber nie . . . en so was dit tot \u2019n mate ook met die hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy het die hotel gebou om waarde tot die Shelley Point-landgoed toe te voeg, en hy wou \u2019n mooi hotel bou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy het vooraf besef dat dit dalk finansieel swaar kan gaan om voete daar te kry. \u201cEk het aanvaar dat ek dit sal moet subsidieer ter wille van die gemeenskap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die hotel, wat geheel en al met \u2019n rietdak bedek was, het in 2008 sy deure geopen en het benewens 88 suites ook drie restaurante, onderdakparkering, \u2019n skoonheidsalon en spa, gimnasium, konferensielokale, twee swembaddens en twee tennisbane gehad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joubert is vroe\u00ebr in die media aangehaal dat die skade sowat R300 miljoen beloop, maar wou hom nie daaroor uitspreek totdat die versekeringsproses afgehandel is nie. Hy is wel oortuig daarvan dat dit onmoontlik gaan wees om die hotel te herbou, want alles wat nie in die brand verwoes is nie is \u00f3f deur hitte \u00f3f water beskadig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Of daar moontlik in die toekoms \u2019n nuwe gebou opgerig gaan word, kan Joubert nog glad nie eens oor bespiegel nie, en so ook nie oor die oorsaak van die brand nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daar is ten tyde van die brand uitlatings gemaak dat die brand moontlik in een van die kombuise ontstaan het, maar daar word ook ges\u00ea dat dit moontlik in \u2019n kamer aangrensend aan die kombuis ontstaan het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joubert het benadruk dat die hotel volledig toegerus was met al die toebehore om \u2019n brand te voorkom soos wat wetlik vereis word, soos \u2019n sprinkelstelsel en vuurvaste lae in die dak. \u201cOns wag nou maar vir die feite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die burgemeester, Andr\u00e9 Truter, wat heeldag op die toneel van die brand was, het ges\u00ea brandweerdienste van Shelley Point, die munisipaliteite 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