N\u00e1 skool wou hy hom as onderwyser bekwaam. Toe di\u00e9 beroep hom nie beskore is nie, toe probeer hy tevergeefs die gevangenisdiens. <\/p>\n
Min het hy geweet dat \u2019n plek in die brandweerdiens eintlik lank reeds vir hom uitgesit is.<\/p>\n
Vandag (31 Oktober), n\u00e1 38 jaar getroue diens, tree Cyril Visagie (61), \u2019n senior brandbestryder van Worcester, amptelik uit die brandweerdiens.<\/p>\n
Visagie s\u00ea aan Standard Breederivier Gazette<\/span> hy wou hom n\u00e1 skool as onderwyser bekwaam, maar sy ouers, Willem en Wilhelmiena Visagie, se finansi\u00eble omstandighede het dit nie toegelaat nie. <\/p>\n Volgens hom het hy toe vir \u2019n bietjie langer as \u2019n jaar as handlanger by V&S Konstruksie gewerk en hierna \u2019n jaar by Hextex. <\/p>\n Hy het daarna by die destydse Worcester Stationery ingeval en vir sowat \u2019n jaar en drie maande as stoorman by Shoprite in Russellstraat gewerk. <\/p>\n Volgens Visagie het hy vriende gehad wat as meterlesers by die destydse Worcester-munisipaliteit gewerk het. <\/p>\n \u201cEk het altyd vir hulle ges\u00ea om my te laat weet as daar werk by die munisipaliteit is. Een Donderdagaand in September 1987 toe laat weet een van hulle my die munisipaliteit soek brandweermanne.\u201d <\/p>\n Visagie s\u00ea die volgende oggend douvoordag toe staan hy voor die munisipale gebou. N\u00e1 \u2019n IK-toets, \u2019n rits fiksheidstoetse en \u2019n onderhoud was die werk syne.<\/p>\n Volgens Visagie was hy baie fiks omdat hy in daardie stadium vir Worcester Villagers rugby gespeel het.<\/p>\n Hy het in November 1987 hy uiteindelik sy nuwe werk as junior leerling-brandbestryder begin. <\/p>\n \u201cDie gevoel was oorweldigend.\u201d <\/p>\n Visagie raak emosioneel en die trane skiet in sy o\u00eb wanneer hy vertel van hoe trots en opgewonde sy ouers oor di\u00e9 nuwe hoofstuk in sy lewe was. <\/p>\n Hy s\u00ea \u2019n week nadat hy die goeie nuus met sy ouers gedeel het, het hulle verneem sy pa het kanker. <\/p>\n Visagie s\u00ea dit was maar rof toe hy amptelik as brandweer\u00adman begin werk het. \u201cDit was toe nog die apartheids\u00adjare, dus was daar baie druk op my om myself te bewys. <\/p>\n \u201cEk het in \u2019n stadium begin twyfel en gewonder of di\u00e9 werk werklik vir my is. Dit was erg, maar die Here, my familie en vriende het my deurgedra.\u201d <\/p>\n Visagie s\u00ea die eerste groot brandvoorval wat hy moes bywoon, was op 24 Desember 1987 toe \u2019n informele struktuur langs die Ou Aan De Doornspad tot op die grond afgebrand het. <\/p>\n \u201cDie man en vrou wat in die hok gewoon het, het albei doodgebrand. Ons moes die lyke uitdra. Dit was erg. Ek onthou dit nog soos gister. <\/p>\n \u201cIn di\u00e9 werk sien jy baie dinge, maar \u2019n mens moet maar \u2019n manier vind om dit te verwerk.\u201d <\/p>\n Hy s\u00ea nog iets wat hom vir altyd sal bybly, is toe \u2019n vragmotor destyds \u2013 in latere jare ook op Oukersdag \u2013 teen \u2019n voertuig vol kleuterskoolkinders op pad na \u2019n Kerspartytjie in De Doorns, vasgery het. <\/p>\n Visagie s\u00ea sowat agt kinders het in daardie ongeluk gesterf. <\/p>\n \u201cDaar was ambulanspersoneel op die toneel wat geknak het en ons moes hulle ook bystaan.<\/p>\n \u201cEk self was baie emosioneel, want daardie tyd dink jy aan jou familie en kinders.\u201d <\/p>\n Volgens hom was hy ook een van die brandweermanne wat gaan hand bysit het toe \u2019n bom op Oukersdag in 1996 by Shoprite in Russellstraat in Worcester ontplof het.<\/p>\n Visagie s\u00ea dit was altyd \u2019n lekker gevoel wanneer jy iemand wat in \u2019n noodsituasie was, na veiligheid kon bring. <\/p>\n \u201cDaardie kameraadskap wat ons as brandweermanne oor die jare opgebou het, is ook nie iets wat jy sommer maklik vergeet nie.\u201d <\/p>\n Volgens Visagie is hy tot vandag toe nie spyt hy het by die brandweerdiens aangesluit nie.<\/p>\n Hy s\u00ea om \u2019n brandbestryder te wees, is \u2019n roeping. <\/p>\n Volgens hom is sy jongste seun, Cameron, besig om in sy voetspore te volg. 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