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Glasgow medal haul for Murray Richard Murray from Durbanville has won two medals in triathlon – a bronze and a silver – at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. He won a bronze medal in the individual race and two days later won a silver medal as part of the South African team, which also included Henri Schoeman, Gillian Sanders and Kate Roberts. “It was only during that last leg that the magnitude of the occasion finally dawned on me. I have talked about the games and the possibility of winning a medal during the year, but it was only in the race that it finally became real that I am competing for my country. “And it’s not like in the other races on the World Triathlon Series. Here I was part of the South African team competing for our country, not just representing South Africa,” said Murray after winning South Africa’s first medal in Glasgow. Murray is next off to Stockholm in Sweden for the penultimate race in the World Triathlon Series on 23 August. The WTS Grand Finale is in Edmonton, Canada on 1 September.
Richard Murray from Durbanville is applauded by a supportive crowd while finishing third in the individual race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. PHOTO: WESSEL OOSTHUIZEN, SASPA
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is moeilik om te glo dat past. Henry Pike van Durbanville, wat pas aangewys is as die wenner van Radio Tygerberg se gospel-talentsoek-sangkompetisie, op sy dag die voorste bakleier in ’n kroeg op ’n myndorpie was. Maar die littekens op die gesig van Henry (32), mede-pastoor by Die Bron-kerk, wat die afgelope drie jaar op Sondae in die Barnyard-teater in Willowbridge vergader, is die
getuienis hiervan. Hy het op Fochville in Noord-Wes gematrikuleer en het op skool reeds alkohol misbruik, later met dwelms eksperimenteer. Hy het kort na matriek by Lewis Stores begin werk, maar wou daar wegkom. Hy het by ’n De Beers-diamantmyn op Lime Acres in die Noord-Kaap begin deur met ’n graaf te spit. Na twee maande is hy tot toesighouer bevorder en was op twintig die jongste voorman by die myn. Hy is daarna na ’n swartklipmyn op Northam naby Rustenburg.
Maar hy was verslaaf aan dwelms soos LSD, khat, dagga en “slow boats”. Hy was gewelddadig en was by talle kroeggevegte betrokke, vertel hy. “My bekering was dramaties. Daar het ’n tannie in die woonstel langs my en drie ander gebly. “Sy was ’n sendeling op klein plattelandse dorpies, meestal in Botswana.” Die tannie, wat hy net onthou as Lillemore, was tevore ’n eiendomsagent in ’n ryksmansbuurt in Pretoria-Oos. “Sy het vir my vertel die Here het haar ge-
sê om Northam toe te kom en dat daar vier jong mans langs haar gaan intrek, waarvan een voltyds geroepe is vir die bediening,” vertel hy. Sy het baie met hom gesels. “Ons was rof. Sy het dikwels saam met ons gesit as ons drugs gebruik het. Sy het nie ’n woord gesê oor dit wat ons gedoen het nie; ons nooit aangespreek nie.” “Tussen al die drugs deur was daar in my ’n hunkering na liefde. Ek het na die Here gesoek,” sê hy. V Na bladsy 2.
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