Op 16-jarige ouderdom was hy reeds in die wurggreep van alkohol- en dwelmmisbruik, soos Mandrax. Om sy dwelmgewoontes te finansier, het hy later by \u2019n bende aangesluit en dwelms verkoop om \u2019n bestaan te voer.<\/p>\n
Vandag \u2013 10 jaar nadat hy sy bende-bedrywighede vaarwel toegeroep het \u2013 het die 46-jarige Denzil van Rooi van Roodewal in Worcester \u2019n rolmodel vir baie geword.<\/p>\n
Hy is die pa van vyf kinders en is die afgelope ses jaar reeds nou betrokke by Kibbutz El Shammah \u2013 \u2019n gemeenskapsontwikkelingsorganisasie gele\u00eb in die hartjie van die bendegeteisterde Roodewal waar armoede hoogty vier.<\/p>\n
Van Rooi s\u00ea hy het grootgeword in \u2019n huis waar daar \u2019n tekort aan niks was nie. Volgens hom het hy \u2013 toe hy nog op skool was \u2013 naweke dwelms en alkohol gebruik.<\/p>\n
In 1995 het hy gematrikuleer aan Worcester Senior Sekond\u00eare Skool en in 1996 begin werk by \u2019n maatskappy wat alkohol vervaardig.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het goeie geld verdien. Jy weet, as jy jonk is en jy verdien lekker geld, het jy baie vriende om jou.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea hy het hom letterlik oorgegee aan dwelms en alkohol omdat hy toe sy eie geld verdien het.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy my werkplek was ek omring met alkohol en om toegang te kry tot alkohol was maklik, want ons het krediet gekry waarmee ons vir ons kon alkohol koop. En ek het baie wyn gekoop. Ek het toe elke dag begin drink. Later was ek \u2019n volslae alkoholis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Van Rooi het die dwelms en alkohol sy lewe so oorgeneem dat hy in 2003 besluit het om sy werk te bedank omdat di\u00e9 euwels al was waaraan hy kon dink.<\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea die meeste van die R124 000 wat sy werk aan hom uitbetaal het, het hy op dwelms en alkohol geblaas. \u201cDie hele Worcester was toe my vriende.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Rooi s\u00ea in sy laat dertigs \u2013 toe sy geld begin opdroog \u2013 het hy by \u2019n bende aangesluit en dwelms begin verkoop om \u2019n bestaan te voer. \u201cEk het toe geen vriende gehad nie en was toe soos hulle s\u00ea op die skarrel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea alhoewel die dwelmverkope goed was, was sy lewe altyd in gevaar omdat bendes die heeltyd sy bloed gesoek het. Volgens Van Rooi het hy dwelms verkoop aan kinders so jonk as 11 jaar oud.<\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea toe hy dwelms verkoop het, het hy dit nog steeds gebruik omdat hy toe vrye toegang tot dit gehad het. Volgens hom het hy baie dwelms in Roodewal verkoop.<\/p>\n
\u201cJy sal verbaas wees hoeveel dwelms di\u00e9 mense rook en hoe ryk die dwelmbase raak.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea hy self het sakke vol geld gemaak met sy dwelmverkope. Hy het vir sewe jaar dwelms verkoop.<\/p>\n
Van Rooi voeg by hy het in die proses baie mense seergemaak.<\/p>\n
Volgens hom is tuberkulose in \u2019n stadium by hom gediagnoseer. Hy s\u00ea as gevolg van die tuberkulose kon hy toe nie langer dwelms verkoop nie. <\/p>\n
Volgens Van Rooi het sy oudste suster toe \u2019n ernstige gesprek met hom gevoer waarna sy hom ingeboek het by die Salvation Army waar hy deelgeneem het aan dwelmrehabilitasieprogramme. <\/p>\n
\u201cWat vir my moeilik was, was om terug te keer huis toe. Ek het \u2019n groot taak op my skouers gehad, want ek moes kom regmaak met duisende mense \u2013 mense vir wie ek kwaad aangedoen het \u2013 my familie, my meisie, almal aan wie ek dwelms verkoop het.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Van Rooi is sy vrou, Charmaine (32), met wie hy in 2015 in die huwelik getree het, reeds jare betrokke by die Kibbutz. Hy s\u00ea in \u2019n stadium het hy \u2019n kerkdiens by die Kibbutz bygewoon. <\/p>\n
Van Rooi s\u00ea toe hy sy voete die eerste keer op die terrein van die Kibbutz sit, toe weet hy dis waar hy moet wees. <\/p>\n
In Julie vanjaar word die egpaar weer ouers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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