{"id":53150,"date":"2023-03-27T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/willem-weskus-sterf-op-79-20230322-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T12:50:50","slug":"willem-weskus-sterf-op-79-20230322-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/willem-weskus-sterf-op-79-20230322-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Willem Weskus sterf op 79"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Charl Thom, \u2019n \u201cWeskus-legende\u201d en oud-rubriekskrywer vir Weslander, <\/span>is verlede week n\u00e1 \u2019n kort siekte oorlede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charl het<\/span> Weslander<\/span>-lesers etlike jare met Willem Weskus se Op die voorstewe<\/span>-rubrieke laat skaterlag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willem Weskus en \u201cOu Buurman\u201d se eskapades en gesprekke sal nog lank in die Agterbaai onthou word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soms het Willem Weskus en \u201cOu Buurman\u201d lekker geborduur oor vroue en hul inkopietogte, ernstig rugby of politiek gepraat en vlymskerp uitgevaar teen polissmouse \u2013 en natuurlik in die proses op \u2019n paar tone getrap.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2019n Leser, Charles Hamman van Port Owen, het in 2018 in sy brief aan Weslander<\/span> geskryf: \u201cEk maak altyd Weslander<\/span> in die middel oop om eerste Willem Weskus te lees, so uit die huis en omgewing. Sy skrywe is positief met \u2019n euforie en magic<\/span> wat vir \u2019n wyle die werklikheid waarin ons leef, vervang.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audrey Thom, Charl se weduwee, het vandeesweek aan Weslander<\/span> ges\u00ea hulle het in 2020 tydens die Covid-19-pandemie die Weskus vir Simonstad verruil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCharl se gesondheid het agteruitgegaan en uiteindelik het sy liggaam net ingegee,\u201d het Audrey verduidelik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy is verlede Dinsdag, 14 Maart \u2013 ses maande voor sy 80ste verjaarsdag \u2013 oorlede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSy hart het tot op die einde na die Weskus terugverlang,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charl Thom junior het sy pa as \u2019n formidabele, diep intelligente en komplekse man, wat sy heel beste vir sy gesin probeer doen het, beskryf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHy was my held en soms my grootste vyand. Hy was mal oor \u2019n braai, \u2019n glas bokswyn en die Bulle. Voorverlede naweek se gru-verlies teen die Pumas op Loftus was dalk die laaste strooi. Hy het die Engelse rugby- en krieketspanne, pampoen en die Outsurance-televisieadvertensies verpes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charl junior s\u00ea dis \u2019n ironiese wending dat pampoen die laaste maaltyd was wat die hospitaalverpleegster hom gevoer het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charl senior laat ook sy dogter, Anso Thom, \u2019n joernalis by die Daily Maverick, agter.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie drukkers-ink vloei dik in die Thom-gesin se are,\u201d het Audrey ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTjeers op Willem en Ou Buurman en die mooie Weskus!\u201d het sy bygevoeg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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