{"id":55799,"date":"2022-01-14T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T08:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/eindfluitjie-blaas-die-laaste-keer-20220112-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:32:55","slug":"eindfluitjie-blaas-die-laaste-keer-20220112-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/eindfluitjie-blaas-die-laaste-keer-20220112-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eindfluitjie blaas die laaste keer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vir die legendariese sportheld en gemeenskaps\u00admens oom Ben Saunders het die klok vir sy finale ronde op die fietsbaan gelui \u2013 of, as jy wil, die rugby-eindfluitjie vir hierdie nederige sportman op 87-jarige ouderdom geblaas.<\/p>\n<p>Sy visie as 14-jarige seun het tot die ontstaan van die beroemde Young Hamiltons-rugbyklub gelei. <\/p>\n<p>Oom Ben en \u2019n paar maats het op \u2019n wintersmiddag in Junie 1948, \u2019n dag n\u00e1 sy 14de verjaarsdag, besluit om die klub te stig. Min kon hulle raai hoeveel duisende lewens deur hul inisiatief geraak sou word.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby in SA het \u2019n seder verloor met sy sterfte en hy laat as stigterslid \u2019n klub van 73 jaar agter, met \u2019n voetspoor van groot glorie en roem op velde reg oor SA. <\/p>\n<p>Oom Ben het ook as fietsryer roem verwerf as \u2019n naelry-kampioen en is in die nasionale span opgeneem wat in 1964 aan die Nasionale Spele in Johannesburg deelgeneem het. Hy was \u2019n lid van Worcester Protea en het vertel hoe hy dikwels ter voorbereiding vir sy deelname \u201conwettig\u201d in die aand op Bolandpark moes oefen omdat bruinmense nie \u2019n baan gehad het nie. Hulle het die fietse oor die sink-omheining getel en in die donkerte geoefen. Worcester het tradisioneel vooraanstaande bruin fietsryers gehad, maar self kon hulle nooit aan die renne op Bolandpark deelneem nie en moes maar net met verlangende o\u00eb van die klein paviljoen af kyk hoe die \u201cbevoorregte jaers\u201d \u2013 vir wie hulle enige dag goeie kompetisie kon bied \u2013 baljaar.<\/p>\n<p>Baanfietsry in Worcester het in die nuwe bedeling tot \u2019n einde gekom deurdat die Esselenpark-baan in \u2019n graswalsitplek vir rugbytoeskouers omgeskep is en \u2019n sintetiese atletiekbaan op Bolandpark aangebring is. <\/p>\n<p>In 2018 tydens Hammies se 70ste verjaarsdag is hul laaste lewende stigterslid deur die Wes-Kaapse regering as legendariese Wes-Kaap-sportster vereer \u2013 \u2019n eer wat hy oor en oor verdien het, maar tog in alle beskeidenheid ontvang het. <\/p>\n<p>Sy plek \u2013 saam met sy boesemvriend Abe Haupt \u2013 langs die veld van sy geliefde Hammies was nooit leeg nie en ironies, weens Covid-19, was sy laaste geleentheid saam met die Hammies-skare in November met die begrafnisdiens van die speler Shane Barber.<\/p>\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_72a69cd6\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grace en Ben Saunders\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/2106\/33d24f7c7e3b42af8ab693c6cc0a45b2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5d7afbda23584a96a6ff20cba3d9dc1a.jpg\" title=\"By die toekenning van sy eerbewys as legendariese Wes-Kaapse sportster was, van links, Anroux Marais (Wes-Kaapse minister van sport) en Grace en Ben Saunders. \" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">By die toekenning van sy eerbewys as legendariese Wes-Kaapse sportster was, van links, Anroux Marais (Wes-Kaapse minister van sport) en Grace en Ben Saunders. <\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Volgens sy dogter Safeera Johaar is oom Ben verlede Vrydag in die hospitaal opgeneem met \u2019n pynlike vergrote prostaat en is hy aan nierversaking oorlede. <\/p>\n<p>Hy was \u2019n ywerige lidmaat van die Calvyns Protestante kerk en het sy kerk siek of gesond gereeld besoek. 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