\u2019n Nuwe memoire wat gedeeltelik in Lutzville en die Weskus afspeel, is pas gepubliseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Herman Lategan word wyd as joernalis gerespekteer, en is beide berug \u00e9n beroemd vir sy uitgesprokenheid en kwinkslae oor alles onder die son. In sy memoire Hoerkind<\/i>, die memoires van \u2019n randeier<\/i> [randeier: buitestander] vertel hy sy lewensverhaal uit die hart, sonder om doekies om te draai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is vroeg reeds \u2019n hoerkind (onder meer deur die NG kerk) genoem omdat hy in 1964 buite die eg in Kaapstad gebore is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As seuntjie het hy brandarm grootgeword met \u2019n skaarste aan kos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy en sy ma het gereeld op witbrood en swart koffie oorleef. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op ses is hy vir \u2019n jaar kinderhuis toe. Van jongs af het hy soos \u2019n weggooimens gevoel, want hy is deur grootmense, wat die lewe op onvaste voet betree het, van die een stel hande na die ander aangegee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy ma het later met \u2019n druiweboer van Lutzville getrou. Tydens skoolvakansies, toe hy gaan kuier het, het die boer besope geraak en hulle aangerand. Hy het Herman probeer verkrag, maar sy ma het dit gestop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 boer noem hom aanhoudend \u2019n \u201choerkind\u201d en skiet met \u2019n geweer op hulle. Vele nagte moes hy en sy ma in die wingerde gaan skuil. Toe sy \u2019n mastektomie moes ondergaan, het haar man haar na die spaarkamer verban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op 13 het Herman in die kloue van \u2019n geslepe pedofiel, \u2019n bekende Afrikaanse koerantman, beland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pas n\u00e1 sy 18de verjaarsdag, toe sy molesteerder met hom klaar was, is hy sonder seremonie voor die deur van sy vervreemde alkoholis-pa afgelaai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In sy tienerjare was hy bevriend met Afrikaanse digters soos Sheila Cussons, Ina Rousseau, Barend J. Toerien en Casper Schmidt. Hy het onder die akteur Babs Laker studeer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle het as mentors opgetree en sy denke verbreed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 skool het hy diensplig gedoen, maar is oneervol ontslaan en het in 1986 in New York aangekom, waar hy onder andere die kunstenaar Andy Warhol op straat agtervolg. In hierdie groot stad is hy aan \u2019n kosmopolitiese w\u00eareld blootgestel en het hy \u2019n samelewing sonder apartheid beleef, waar mense van alle kleure gelukkig saamwoon. Dit het hom nuwe insigte oor Suid-Afrika gegee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terug in di\u00e9 land het hy alleen en verarm op straat beland, maar is deur \u2019n vriendin se ma gered. Hy het later opgang gemaak as joernalis wat na die wydste hoeke van die w\u00eareld reis, ook Antarktika. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As volwassene het hy \u2019n stryd met drank en dwelms gevoer en oor \u2019n kort tydperk in vyf rehabilitasiesentrums beland. Hy het selfs \u2019n jaar in die Heilsle\u00ebr gewoon. Omdat hy aan bipol\u00eare gemoedsteurnis ly, was hy met sy gemoedskommelinge vir menige werkgewer die nagmerrie wat hulle die ergste vrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Herman is een aand gyselaar gehou en met \u2019n mes gesteek. Hy het byna sy been n\u00e1 \u2019n motorongeluk tydens \u2019n besoek aan die oudrugbyspeler Mannetjies Roux se plaas verloor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Hoerkind<\/i> is \u2019n aangrypende relaas oor verlies \u00e9n oorwinning wat jou sal laat lag, en jou hart \u2019n paar keer sal breek. Jy sal jou kop skud oor die wreedheid van \u2019n w\u00eareld waar mense aan mekaar uitgelewer is, maar jy sal verwonderd staan oor die omvang van goedheid, juis omdat mense op mekaar aangewese is..<\/span> Herman Lategan is \u2019n bekroonde joernalis en skrywer van Groenpunt. Oor die jare skryf hy vir meer as 50 tydskrifte, koerante en webblaaie, onder meer Vogue Entertaining + Travel<\/i>, Time Out<\/i>, House and Leisure<\/i>, Cape Style<\/i>, Mail & Guardian <\/i>en Vrye Weekblad<\/i>. Sy Rapport<\/i>-rubrieke is in twee bundels byeengebring. \u2019n Aantal gedigte en kortverhale het al verskyn. Hy het ook vir e.tv gewerk en vryskut-insetsels vir etlike radiostasies soos FMR en Cape Talk gelewer..<\/span> Hoerkind<\/i>, die memoires van \u2019n randeier<\/i>, word deur Penguin uitgegee. 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