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PAGE 6 PHALABORWA HERALD - Friday 5 February 2010 GENERAL<br />
Besoek towerwêreld<br />
van modelmotortjies<br />
André Buys<br />
POLOKWANE- Dit is ‘n towerwêreld<br />
wat jou meevoer na nostalgiese<br />
her<strong>in</strong>ner<strong>in</strong>ge van die<br />
verlede en ook die hede.<br />
Dit gryp die verbeeld<strong>in</strong>g van<br />
sowel k<strong>in</strong>d as ouer aan as jy jou oë<br />
oor meer as 2 000 modelmotortjies<br />
<strong>in</strong> swierige vertoonkaste<br />
laat gly.<br />
Verskillende tydperke van die<br />
motor bedryf en veel meer is <strong>in</strong> die<br />
versamel<strong>in</strong>g van Pieter de Jager, ‘n<br />
sakeman van Polokwane vervat.<br />
Voor-oorlogse modelmotortjies<br />
spog <strong>in</strong> die mooiste kleure en<br />
mens kan nie anders as om ‘n rooi<br />
1947 Ford raak te sien nie, want<br />
die meeste Fords wat ouer mense<br />
van die era gesien het was swart.<br />
Spoggerige koetse van verskillende<br />
groottes, kompleet, elk met<br />
sowat agt perde vooraan, staan<br />
daar, gevries <strong>in</strong> tyd.<br />
Pieter vertel dit is koetse van<br />
kon<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> Elizabeth se tyd.<br />
Hy meen sy versamel<strong>in</strong>g is<br />
sowat R1 miljoen werd en dit is<br />
een van die grootste modelmotortjies<br />
versamel<strong>in</strong>g noord van<br />
Pretoria.<br />
Mense sal wonder waar sy liefde<br />
vir dié besondere stokperdtjie<br />
vandaan kom. "Dit het al sedert<br />
kle<strong>in</strong> tyd <strong>in</strong> my beg<strong>in</strong> posvat elke<br />
keer as die plaaslike haarkapper<br />
aan my ‘n karretjie belowe, as ek<br />
mooi so stilsit terwyl hy my hare<br />
s k e e r. "<br />
Hy het reg aan sy pragversamel<strong>in</strong>g<br />
laat geskied deur dit <strong>in</strong> ‘n<br />
museum te omskep, wat die<br />
Classique Modelcar Collection<br />
Museum genoem word.<br />
Hy is ook lid van Pietersburg<br />
Diecast Club wat sowat 35 lede<br />
sterk is.<br />
Pieter het ‘n woonstyel bokant<br />
sy meubelw<strong>in</strong>kel- Classique Furnishers<br />
<strong>in</strong> Schoemanstraat <strong>in</strong> ‘n<br />
museum omskep. Hy het geen<br />
moeite ontsien om reg aan sy<br />
versamel<strong>in</strong>g te laat geskied nie en<br />
die kaste met die lugdigte vensters<br />
is van kersiehout. Spesiale beligt<strong>in</strong>g<br />
sorg dat daar nie<br />
skaduwees is nie. Volvloer matte<br />
maak dit so ‘n aangename<br />
omgew<strong>in</strong>g en mense kan op sowat<br />
26 stoele sit en die versamel<strong>in</strong>g<br />
bewonder, want glo my dit gaan ‘n<br />
tydjie neem.<br />
Pieter sê hy voel soos ‘n k<strong>in</strong>d<br />
tussen sy versamel<strong>in</strong>g. "Vandag se<br />
k<strong>in</strong>ders weet nie van sulke goed<br />
soos gietyster modelletjies nie,"<br />
skerts hy.<br />
Oor wat sy versamel<strong>in</strong>g behels,<br />
gesels hy geesdriftig. Elke modelletjie<br />
is eg en die groottes wissel<br />
van baie kle<strong>in</strong> tot 1:18de skaal.<br />
Die versamel<strong>in</strong>g verteenwoordig,<br />
Duitse, Franse, Britse en<br />
Amerikaanse modelle, maar dit<br />
e<strong>in</strong>dig nie hier nie. Dit word<br />
aangevul deur twee tre<strong>in</strong>tjies,<br />
grondverskuiw<strong>in</strong>gsmasj<strong>in</strong>e- rie,<br />
oorlogtuig, soos tenks, motorfietse,<br />
helikopters en vliegtuie en<br />
nog meer.<br />
"Wat die versamel<strong>in</strong>g meer<br />
werd maak, is dat ek nog die<br />
oorspronklike verpakk<strong>in</strong>g van<br />
elke modelletjie het en elkeen is <strong>in</strong><br />
‘n uitstekende toestand en lyk<br />
spl<strong>in</strong>ternuut. Beperkte produksie<br />
van baie modelle maak dit nog<br />
meer werd en ek het ook sertifikaatjies<br />
as bewys daarvan."<br />
Hy sê party modelletjies kos tot<br />
R5 000 elk en is "so swaar soos ‘n<br />
baksteen."<br />
Die publiek is welkom om sy<br />
versamel<strong>in</strong>g te gaan besigtig.<br />
Hulle kan dit per afspraak kom<br />
bewonder en sy werk telefoonnommer<br />
is : (015) 297 2037.<br />
Quent<strong>in</strong> kry groot verrass<strong>in</strong>g<br />
‘n Lekker vet verrass<strong>in</strong>g so vroeg <strong>in</strong> die nuwe jaar. Quent<strong>in</strong> Zwane, l<strong>in</strong>ks het deelgeneem aan ‘n gelukkige sms<br />
kompetisie wat Gallito’s aangebied het. Hier ontvang hy sy plasma skerm televiesiestel van die eienaar, Zonja Beukes.<br />
Beukes is die eienaar van Gallito’s <strong>in</strong> Tzaneen en Phalaborwa. Zwane is ‘n <strong>in</strong>woner van Phalaborwa en het sy geskenk<br />
<strong>in</strong> Tzaneen <strong>in</strong> ontvangs geneem.<br />
Three prom<strong>in</strong>ent <strong>member</strong>s back<br />
As part of its ‘Come Back Home Campaign’, the ANC of<br />
Mopani Region welcomed three prom<strong>in</strong>ent <strong>member</strong>s of the<br />
Congress of the People back to its ranks dur<strong>in</strong>g a press<br />
conference held at the party’s regional offices <strong>in</strong> Tzaneen on<br />
Tu e s d a y.<br />
The three are Benny Moshobane, Morgan Lewele and<br />
Peter Modike who left the party more than a year ago to jo<strong>in</strong><br />
the breakaway political party, Cope.<br />
Moshobane, the <strong>for</strong>mer Chief Executive Officer of<br />
Kgapane Hospital, was the Sub-regional Chairperson of<br />
Cope <strong>in</strong> the Greater <strong>Letaba</strong> Municipality. He was also<br />
serv<strong>in</strong>g on the regional and prov<strong>in</strong>cial committees of the<br />
p a r t y.<br />
Morgan Lewele, who was a <strong>member</strong> of the executive<br />
committee of the De Oaks branch of Cope, was very<br />
<strong>in</strong>strumental <strong>in</strong> the <strong>for</strong>mation of Cope <strong>in</strong> Maruleng. He was<br />
part of a cont<strong>in</strong>gent to move out from the ANC to <strong>for</strong>m Cope<br />
<strong>in</strong> the area.<br />
Meanwhile, Peter Modike, <strong>for</strong>mer ANC councillor <strong>in</strong> the<br />
Greater Tzaneen Municipality be<strong>for</strong>e jo<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Cope - just<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e the previous general elections - was a senior <strong>member</strong><br />
of the Mhlaba branch as well as Tzaneen Sub-region of<br />
Cope be<strong>for</strong>e he decided to re-jo<strong>in</strong> the rul<strong>in</strong>g party.<br />
The three were welcomed back <strong>in</strong>to the ranks of the rul<strong>in</strong>g<br />
party by the ANC’s regional executive committee, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the Chairperson, Joshua Matlou, Deputy Chairperson,<br />
David Maake, and Secretary, Bricks Manz<strong>in</strong>i.<br />
Speak<strong>in</strong>g at the press conference, Matlou said the ANC<br />
still expects a mass exodus of Cope <strong>member</strong>s to come back<br />
home, because it is the only home <strong>for</strong> South Africans.<br />
“We will cont<strong>in</strong>ue to engage all the people of South Africa<br />
to be part of the trans<strong>for</strong>mation agenda as lead by the ANC,”<br />
Matlou said.<br />
Matlou further expla<strong>in</strong>ed that their ’Come Back Home<br />
Campaign’ will be launched throughout the region to<br />
ensure that all those comrades who jo<strong>in</strong>ed Cope and other<br />
political parties are warmly welcomed back <strong>in</strong>to the<br />
p a r t y.<br />
He also <strong>in</strong>dicated that the three, like any other <strong>member</strong>,<br />
would be given tasks to assist <strong>in</strong> build<strong>in</strong>g the organisation.<br />
Speak<strong>in</strong>g on behalf of the three, Moshobane said they<br />
were not pushed to rejo<strong>in</strong> the ANC, but did it of their own<br />
free will.<br />
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