{"id":53535,"date":"2016-07-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/53535\/paulus-oorleef-al-23-jaar-diep-in-die-berge\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:36:55","slug":"paulus-oorleef-al-23-jaar-diep-in-die-berge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/28\/paulus-oorleef-al-23-jaar-diep-in-die-berge\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Paulus oorleef al 23 jaar diep in die berge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulus wat in 1993 saam met \u2019n regse groep die berge in is om van die nuwe Suid-Afrika te ontsnap.<\/p>\n<p>Saam met hom was kolonel Ernie Griesel, wat al in 1991 saam met sowat tien ander mense na hierdie onherbergsame landskap uitgewyk het.<\/p>\n<p>Hulle het \u2019n waternetwerk, riolering en selfs battery opgewekte elektrisiteit gevestig.<\/p>\n<p>Igloes is opgerig en ondergrondse skuilings gebou, met \u2019n kerkie diep onder die aarde en gangetjies wat die skuilings verbind.<\/p>\n<p>Daar is selfs \u2019n klavier afgedra en in die skuiling staan gemaak.<\/p>\n<p>Boerbokke moes vir melk en vleis sorg en daar is piesangbome en lemoenbome geplant vir kos. Tee en medisyne is uit die veld gekry.<\/p>\n<p>Op Barberton in die Laeveldse berge het nog so regse groep hulself gevestig.<\/p>\n<p>Kol. Griesel het later weggetrek en hom in Amerika gaan vestig.<\/p>\n<p>Al die ander inwoners het een na die ander getrek en nou, na 23 jaar, is daar net een oor, Paulus, Paulus en sy Zimbabwiese vrou Heather.<\/p>\n<p>Die Barberton groep het ook uitmekaar gespat.<\/p>\n<p>Annie van Zyl, van <em>www.mobserver.co.za<\/em> is sukkel-sukkel, nat en koud, Dinsdag die berge in.<\/p>\n<p>Sy was verstom oor die wyse waarop Paulus Ferreira steeds oorleef.<\/p>\n<p>Sy grootste \u201cvyand\u201d is \u2019n luiperd wat byna al sy boerbokke doodgebyt het.<\/p>\n<p>En dan die natuurskoon, asemrowend.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul lives in the mountain near Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ymqg-8uHjP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paulus s\u00ea vandag sy vrese van 1993 het waar geword: Suid-Afrika is \u2019n misdadige land en hy sal daar diep in die berge bly, tot die dag van sy dood.<\/p>\n<p>Wanneer jy tussen bome en rotse, weer die berg uit, onder toegegroeide bome deur, breek die lig sonstraal helder oor Suid-Afrika&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>En daar onder oorleef Paulus, Paulus en sy Heather, Paulus en die luiperd wat hom so pla&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lees ander stories hier:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/51745\/complaints-against-absa-on-the-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Complaints against ABSA on the rise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 33658 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates. You can also WhatsApp us on this number 079\u00a0426 1396<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongelooflik! Die een oomblik is jy op die plato naby Loskopdam, die volgende oomblik sak jy loodreg af na Paulus se skuiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh and Annie van Zyl ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}