Gees van die Labrador
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Ons eerste ervaring saam met die “Riemlanders” begin duisende kilometers verder Noord in die Sahara woestyn Wes van Kaïro. Twee reuse aanvoerders het kragte gemeet naby El Alamein. Die bloed van duisende manskappe het diep in die dorre sand van Egipte ingetrek terwyl Montgomery stadig die oorhand begin kry het oor die geslepe Rommel. Die slag was van deurslaggewende belang en het gelei tot die ontrekking van die Duitsers uit Afrika. 'n Strategiese oorwinning, wat ongelukkig diep sielkundige wonde op die oorlewendes nagelaat het. Gedurende die “hel” in die woestyn was die Riemlanders daar – dag en nag soos die kanonne en bomme wat nooit opgehou het nie. Makkie neem ons tussen hulle tente, deur die loopgrawe en tot by die hospitaal van die Rooi Kruis. Die lewens van talle jong mans het in daardie paar dae vir ewig verander.
Makkie de Beer skryf uit haar hart uit en het 'n wye ervaring van die lewe en 'n uiteenlopende vriendekring. Haar karakters voel later soos familielede en vriende wat jy bladsy vir bladsy beter leer ken en liefkry. Hulle is nie sonder foute nie en net soos ons gewone mense, probeer hulle om 'n lewe te maak vir hulleself en hulle geliefdes. Ervaar die hartklop van 'n plaas en voel saam met hulle, in hulle menslike pogings om geluk en liefde te vind. Nader aan die grond en midde in die natuur wissel die emosies soos die seisoene – van bittere koue sneeu-bedekte vlaktes tot warm luilekker somersdae.
Ontspan bietjie hierdie vakansie en gaan kuier op 'n rivierplaas in die Riemland.
Makkie de Beer
My name is Makkie de Beer, a 76 year old widow with a love of poetry rhyme and a passion for writing stories. My home is the southern foothills of the mysterious Zoutpansberg in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. I grew up at Kareepoort near Brits, my father was a farmer, Carel van Wyk and my mother Lettie hails from the diamond fields. I married my farmer / writer husband Bertus de Beer in 1953 and went on to assist him on the farm De Kroon, downstream of the Hartebeespoort Dam. On this farm along the Crocodile River, we farmed, dreamed and brought up four busy sons. They are Jaco, Karel, Bertie and Buks. (I live with my youngest son Buks and his wife Adri in Louis Trichardt). In our retirement we first stayed at Kosmos along the Western side of the Dam and later moved to Hoedspruit where my husband passed away. From there my life made a few other twists before I ended up here in Louis Trichardt. I love poetry and writing and this, my first "farm novel", is now available with the name "Gees van die Labrador”, meaning Spirit of the Labrador". The story concerns the fortunes of a few families in the "Riem Land" or Thong Country. This is a gripping story of the farming community around Rietfontein in the Eastern Free State. Unusual events that affected the lives of ordinary people, drastically changing their world and their lives. Join these families and enjoy their healthy innocent lifestyle, the lifestyles of our ancestors.
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