Once you get settled in life, it’s a good idea to write to your childhood hero again. Just so he knows you’re okay, says Willem van der Berg.Almost all the letters I wrote as a schoolchild started that way. I was crazy about cricket and especially about Jonty Rhodes . People even called me Jonty. In my mind there was no doubt: One day I would play for the Proteas, probably as a bowler. Bowling and fielding were my favourite disciplines.
I wasn’t the best batsman, even though I had a Gunn & Moore bat just like Jonty’s. Jonty received letters from Reddersburg, George, Theunissen and Olifantshoek – all the towns I lived in as a child. My last letter to him was probably written in Olifantshoek. But in a small school in the Kalahari, cricketing dreams easily turn to dust. No one called me Jonty any more. Proteas don’t grow in the desert. This made me sad, but luckily, at the age of 16, it was easy to come up with a new dream career. Miss Clara Aucamp instilled in me a passion for languages and writing and I started to believe that I would become a write
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