Daar was \u2019n tyd toe Rawsonville geen elektrisiteit, telefone of motors gehad het nie; toe al die paaie stofpaaie was en babas meesal in mense se huise gebore is.<\/p>\n
Vir een inwoner is di\u00e9 tyd nog helder in die geheue. Dr. Danie Joubert (101) is weliswaar die oudste inwoner van die Goudini-distrik, maar sy gesels herinner \u2019n mens hoe geweldig die w\u00eareld in die laaste 100 jaar verander het.<\/p>\n
Hy onthou die twee vleie wat die dorp begrens het \u2013 waar Agrico vandag is en aan die noordekant \u2013 voor die rivier later afgekeer en die vleie gedreineer is.<\/p>\n
Hy gesels oor naamsveranderinge. Die plaas Grootvlakte was op ou landmeterkaarte eers Klipdrif, soos die Smalblaarrivier eers die Molenaarsrivier was.<\/p>\n
Hy onthou \u2019n meulsloot wat water van die eerste brug in Du Toitskloof na Klipdrif gebring het vir die maal van koring, en ook vir besproeiing.<\/p>\n
As seuntjie het hy die eerste gruispad voor sy o\u00eb sien vorm kry. Die gruis is met \u2019n stoomaangedrewe vragmotor aangery. Hy was in \u2019n plaasskooltjie waar Die Eike-gastehuis vandag is, \u2019n klipgooi van hul plaas Palmboombad, langs vandag se Goudini Spa.<\/p>\n
Hy het grootgeword in die dae toe \u2019n perdekar die enigste vervoer was. Daarmee is sy gesin Ceres toe, deur Bainskloofpas en selfs so ver as Montagu.<\/p>\n
Die eerste plaasfone het seker so 1922 gekom, vertel dr. Joubert. (Voor dit het skielike siekte in die nag beteken iemand moet perd opsaal om \u2019n dokter na die huis te gaan ontbied.) Dit was die dae van partylyne, toe tien of wat gesinne dieselfde lyn gedeel het. \u201cSoms het jy gehoor die en daardie vrou het ingeluister, want sy haal van nature hard asem. Soms het jy gehoor die en daardie vrou het ingeluister wanneer die horlosie hard slaan in die eetkamer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dit was ook die dae dat babas tuis gebore is. Dr. Joubert, sy broer en \u2019n vriend het een slag by Brandvlei gaan visvang. Toe hulle kort voor middernag besluit om huiswaarts te keer, het iemand hulle langs die pad ontmoet met die nuus dat sy skoonsuster in kraam is. By die huis gekom, was \u2019n dr. Van der Merwe reeds by haar, besig met die bevalling.<\/p>\n
Dr. Joubert het vir die eerste keer by elektriese lig geleer toe hy in 1932 en 1933 in die Paarl skoolgegaan het, want in die eerste dae van elektriese krag het net die kerk en \u2019n paar welaf mense plants<\/i> gehad. Dit was glo \u2019n kragbron bestaande uit \u2019n klomp batterye wat in \u2019n vertrek in die huis gehou is.<\/p>\n
Die eerste motors het ook in die vroe\u00eb dertigerjare in Goudini aangekom. Die eerste motor met \u2019n opdraairuit (voorheen is deursigtige klappe gebruik om wind en re\u00ebn uit te hou wanneer dit nodig was), was glo so \u2019n groot attraksie dat mense planne beraam het om daarna te gaan kyk.<\/p>\n
Rawsonville was \u2019n boerdorpie waar mense \u2019n eenvoudige bestaan gemaak het. Baie het druiwe gehad en rosyntjies gemaak. Vandag word daar glad nie meer rosyntjies gemaak nie.<\/p>\n
Oor die mense van vroe\u00ebrjare s\u00ea hy dat die meeste hard gewerk het en met die minimum tevrede was. Selfs die welaf mense \u2013 soos twee prokureurs se dogters saam met wie hy Paarl toe gereis het \u2013 was tevrede om trein te ry. Van motor ry was daar nie sprake nie.<\/p>\n
Natuurlik was die dorp \u2019n totaal ander plek toe dr. Joubert in 1992 teruggekeer het Rawsonville toe n\u00e1 hy in Stellenbosch gestudeer en \u2019n groot rol in akademiese kringe by Elsenburg gespeel het.<\/p>\n
Vandag is dit byna soos Willem Viljoen (st. 10) in die Ho\u00ebrskool Goudini se Eeublad van 1958 voorspel het: \u201cBes moontlik sal dit (in die jaar 2000) \u2019n vreeslik gejaagde en gemoderniseerde samelewing wees.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seker so. Maar rustigheid en vrede is nog in Rawsonville te kry . . .<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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