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Hy het ook die Suid-Afrikaanse o.21-span in 2010 afgerig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die gemeenskap van Robertson het met groot hartseer van sy onverwagse afsterwe verneem en huldeblyke het van oral ingestroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die span wat hy tans afgerig het, Worcester Villagers, het die tyding van sy afsterwe Saterdagoggend, kort voor hul vertrek na Touwsrivier, ontvang. Hulle gaan hul deelname aan die <a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/worcester-villagers-wen-vir-n-top-12-plek-in-die-boland\/\">Top-12-kompetisie<\/a> aan hom opdra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alridge, &#8216;n gebore en geto\u00eb Robertsonner, het sy skoolloopbaan aan die Laerskool De Villiers en Langeberg Sekond\u1ec7r voltooi. Hy het sy tersi\u1ec7re opleiding aan die destydse Pentech &#8211; deesdae die Kaapse Skiereiland- Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) voltooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy onderwysloopbaan het by Arcacia Sekond\u1ec7r in Bonteheuwel begin, waarna hy by Ashton Sekond\u1ec7r gewerk het voordat hy na die Ho\u00ebrskool Bonnievale toe is, waar hy Sakestudies gegee het. Hy het die onderwys in Augustus 2022 weens gesondheidsredes halt geroep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mercuur was lank by Boland Rugby betrokke en het veral op die ontwikkeling van jong rugbyspelers gefokus. Hy het &#8216;n Vlak 3- internasionaal geakrediteerde afrigtingsertifikaat gehad en is as een van net &#8216;n handjievol elite-afrigters gereken. Hy is ook nie net in 2010 as afrigter van die SA o.21-span aangewys, wat onoorwonne was, nie maar was ook van 1993 tot 1997 deel van die Stormers se afrigterskorps onder leiding van Harry Viljoen en Alan Solomons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mercuur was ook betrokke by verskeie amateurklubs, waaronder Robertson, voordat hy in 2018 by Worcester Villagers as hoofafrigter aangestel is. Intussen het sy niere probleme begin gee en het hy ook nierdialise begin ondergaan. Hy moes egter in 2020 &#8216;n driedubbele hartomleidingsoperasie ondergaan en boonop het hy ook intussen Covid-19 opgedoen. 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