{"id":2743,"date":"2025-07-24T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:04:24","slug":"64-olga-craig-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/2025\/07\/24\/64-olga-craig-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"#64 ~ Olga (Craig) Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2743\" class=\"elementor elementor-2743\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3edc671b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3edc671b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2efa512f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2efa512f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e11f821 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3e11f821\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">#64 ~ Olga (Craig) Jones<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-389ec4d6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"389ec4d6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38ab7ddc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"38ab7ddc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f00a70b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1f00a70b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c0642e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2c0642e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2748\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Unknown-2.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Unknown-2-320x427.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Unknown-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Unknown-2-9x12.jpeg 9w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33e19001 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"33e19001\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">#64 ~ Olga (Craig) Jones<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1afe943f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1afe943f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68c0d3fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68c0d3fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Op skool was ek maar stil en het ek my eenkant gehou. N\u00e1 matriek is ek met \u2019n onderwysbeurs Tukkies toe om BMus te studeer, maar teen April was dit duidelik dat ek sou sukkel om in te pas by die konserwatiewe politieke atmosfeer. Gelukkig het Wits my eerste jaar erken, en ek kon ook my honneursgraad daar voltooi.<\/p><p>Die HOD het my glad nie aangestaan nie en het my summier opgeskop toe ek gevra is om by Menlopark standerd 8 tot 10 musiekklas waar te neem. Dit was heerlik om les te gee en met klein groepies belangstellende leerlinge te werk.<\/p><p data-start=\"710\" data-end=\"950\">Ek en Brian is reeds saam van einde 1974 af en is toe aan die einde van 1979 getroud. Renate Lippert, Nerine le Roux en Christel van der Berg was by ons troue. Ons is nou al 46 jaar getroud en woon al die afgelope 40 jaar in dieselfde huis.<\/p><p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1448\">Na sy BA aan Wits het Brian as joernalis by <em data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1006\">The Star<\/em> in Johannesburg begin werk.<br \/><br \/>Einde 1980 het ek \u2019n pos aanvaar as cellodoseent by die destydse konservatorium in Windhoek. Aanvanklik sou ons net vir twee jaar bly \u2013 maar ons is steeds hier. Namibi\u00eb is \u2019n heerlike plek om te woon, kinders groot te maak, te werk en veral om te gaan kamp. Daar is soveel wonderlike plekke om te ontdek. Omdat Namibi\u00eb se bevolking so klein is, kry mens baie geleenthede \u2013 \u201cWe are all big fish in a small pond.\u201d<br \/><br \/><\/p><p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1448\"><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2749 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-1200x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-1-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><p data-start=\"1450\" data-end=\"1949\"><br \/>Brian het later al hoe meer betrokke geraak by natuurbewaring, veral CBNRM (Community-Based Natural Resource Management). In 1996 was hy instrumenteel in die opstel van beleid wat gelei het tot die aanneming van die wet in die parlement wat kommunale inwoners die reg op hul natuurlike hulpbronne gee. Vandag is daar reeds 86 kommunale bewaringsgebiede (conservancies) in Namibi\u00eb. Sy werk het hom dikwels veld toe geneem \u2013 en as gesin het ons ook baie gebaat deur saam na afgele\u00eb plekke te kon reis.<\/p><p data-start=\"1951\" data-end=\"2112\">Omdat ons soveel tyd in die veld deurgebring het, het Namibiese inheemse plantegroei \u2019n groot belangstelling by my geword. \u2019n Mens wil immers weet waarna jy kyk!<br \/><br \/><\/p><p data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2644\"><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2750\" src=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-1200x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-1200x894.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-320x239.jpg 320w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-2048x1527.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Olga-2-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><p data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2644\"><br \/>Ek was 14 jaar lank by die konservatorium, maar die druk van jong kinders, \u2019n reisende man en geen familie naby nie, was te veel. Sedert 1994 gee ek egter privaat musieklesse \u2013 cello en klavier \u2013 en ek geniet dit steeds. Ek speel ook gereeld in die Namibiese Nasionale Simfonieorkes (NNSO) as leier van die celli. Verder word ek dikwels genooi om as dosent op te tree by musiekkursusse vir jongmense. Verskeie van my leerlinge het reeds as soliste by ons Konsertfeeste opgetree \u2013 sommige het selfs internasionale musikante geword.<\/p><p data-start=\"2646\" data-end=\"2735\">Ons twee seuns woon in Kaapstad en Centurion onderskeidelik \u2013 heeltemal te ver na my sin.<\/p><p data-start=\"2737\" data-end=\"2832\">Dit sal baie interessant wees om julle almal n\u00e1 50 jaar weer te sien. Ek hoop ek herken iemand<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op skool was ek maar stil en het my eenkant gehou. Na matriek was ek met n onderwys beurs Tukkies toe om BMus te gaan studeer, maar teen April was dit duidelik dat ek sal sukkel om in te pas by die konserwatiewe politieke atmosfeer. Gelukkig het Wits my eerste jaar herken, en kon ook my honeurs graad daar voltooi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}