Baie min mense sal weet dat die ontslape bekende rolprentman van Suid-Afrika, Jamie Uys, se wortels in Worcester gesetel l\u00ea \u2013 en dit in Russellstraat, om presies te wees.<\/p>\n
Wanneer \u2019n mens aan Russellstraat dink, sal hierdie straat altyd aan die bekende Jacobs-familie verbind wees, wat vir vier geslagte in hierdie straat gebly het.<\/p>\n
By Russellstraat 64 (op die hoek van Russell- en Stockenstr\u00f6mstraat) is die ou historiese Jacobshuis \u2013 een van Russellstraat se mees geskiedkundige geboue. Jacobus Johannes (\u201cJacobus\u201d) Jacobs (1836 \u2013 1921) is op Harmonie in Brandwacht gebore, waar sy pa, Petrus, \u2019n wamakery op die oewer van die Hartebeesrivier, langs die grootpad tussen Tulbagh en Worcester, bedryf het. Dit is die eerste wamakery as jy uit Worcester ry en die laaste wamakery voordat jy Worcester ingekom het.<\/p>\n
Thomas Tennant Heatlie het Jacobus Jacobs omstreeks 1870 gekry om sy historiese L-vormige huis op Glen Heatlie na \u2019n U-vormige woning te verander en as deel van die vergoeding, het hy \u2019n lening van \u00a31 100 aan Jacobus toegestaan om die hele hoek van Russell- en Stockenstr\u00f6mstraat te koop.<\/p>\n
Jacobus moes hierdie lening terugbetaal en hy was \u2019n vernuftige man, wat letterlik en figuurlik baie ysters in die vuur gehad het: Hy was \u2019n kuiper, \u2019n meubelmaker, \u2019n naafdraaier (van wawiele), \u2019n transportryer, \u2019n volstruisboer by Kleinplasie, \u2019n wamaker asook \u2019n regeringskontrakteur, verhuurder van sy eiendomme as fotografie-ateljee, tuiskamers en winkels, en uiteindelik ook \u2019n belegger. Hy het van sy geld in die destydse Worcester Gold Mining and Exploration Company van Johannesburg bel\u00ea, wat 300% wins opgelewer het. <\/p>\n
Hierdie opbrengs het hom in staat gestel om \u2019n draaibank met perdekrag \u2013 wat deur \u2019n Fucks-bakkiespomprat aangedryf is \u2013 aan te skaf. Gevolglik was sy wamakery op daardie hoek teen die 1890\u2019s die mees gevorderde in Worcester. <\/p>\n
Jacobs was getroud met Helena Catharina (Viljoen) Jacobs (1843-1928) van Doornrivier en sy het ook behoorlik haar kant gebring, want in Russelstraat 63 is op massiewe skaal kos gemaak.<\/p>\n
Om hul inkomste verder aan te vul, het Jacobus die kontrak gekry om al die gevangenes in die Worcester-tronk (wat destyds by die Russell- en Somersetstraat-aansluiting gestaan het) te voorsien.<\/p>\n
Om sy inkomste verder aan te vul, het Jacobus die boonste verdieping spesiaal so ingerig en laat verander, sodat hy hierdie ruim deel dan as \u2019n ekstra inkomste aan fotograwe as \u2019n ateljee kon verhuur. Dus was Russellstraat 63 Worcester se eerste fotografie-ateljee.<\/p>\n
Die kuns van fotografie en die gepaardgaande negatiewe en maak van rolprente was natuurlik vir die Jacobs-seuns en kleinkinders almal baie interessant en vir almal in daardie stadium was hierdie tegnologie nog baie ongewoon. <\/p>\n
Kort voor Jacobus Jacobs se afsterwe op 23 Augustus 1921 het hy vir sy kinders \u2019n \u201cmagic lantern\u201d \u2013 soos wat in daardie stadium na \u2019n filmprojektor verwys was \u2013 as Kersgeskenk vir daardie jaar gekoop, sodat hy vir hulle rolprente in \u201chome cinema<\/span>\u201d-formaat kon wys.<\/p>\n Jacobus en Helena Jacobs het 12 kinders gehad. Een hiervan is na sy oupa genoem, maar het bekend gestaan as Jamie Uys, (1921-1996), wat die befaamde rolprentmaker geword het.<\/p>\n As kind het Jamie en sy gesin Worcester gereeld besoek en hy en sy sibbe het hul oupa se \u201cmagic lantern\u201d gebruik om rolprente teen mure te projekteer. <\/p>\n Sy grootste en bekendste rolprent was natuurlik The Gods Must Be Crazy<\/span>.. <\/span>Die skrywer van hierdie arikel, raadslid Julian Kritzinger, is die Burgemeesterskomiteelid vir plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling, toerisme, kuns en kultuur van die Breedevallei-munisipaliteit.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Baie min mense sal weet dat die ontslape bekende rolprentman van Suid-Afrika, Jamie Uys, se wortels in Worcester gesetel l\u00ea \u2013 en dit in Russellstraat, om presies te 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