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Willem de
Klerk in action!
Nothing is too
much trouble
when it comes
to ploughing
back into the
community.
Hero honoured at Free State
Agriculture Congress
Many times ordinary people who do extraordinary things go unnotices. Fortunately the
good deeds of Willem de Klerk of Ficksburg did not go unnoticed.
By Aubrey Kruger
Senwes Scenario Editor
I
Willem being honoured! Francois Wilken, President of Free State Agriculture, Gerhard
Kriel, Chief Executive Officer of Free State Agriculture, Willem de Klerk, Tommie
Esterhuyse, Vice-president of Free State Agriculture and Dirk Viljoen, Chairman of the
Rural Safety Committee.
Photo: Conrad Bornman/Media Farmer.
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t reminded one of the Senwes adver-
tisement about heroes in the making
launched earlier this year, with Evert
du Preez and Mokoni Chaka, the
young heroes during the train accident
between Hennenman and Kroonstad in
January this year. During the 2018 Free
State Agriculture Congress it was the turn
of Willem de Klerk, a supervisor at the
Setsoto Municipality in Ficksburg.
Willem was honoured in Bloemfontein
by Free State Agriculture in the presence
of Francois Wilken (President), Gerhard
Kriel (Chief Executive Officer) as well as
Tommie Esterhuyse, (Vice-president) and
Dirk Viljoen (Chairman of the Rural Safety
Committee).
“The award was amazing - I really
did not expect it,” Willem said after he
received an award for selfless service to