Afrikaans Notes Donker Web
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,Hoofstuk 1
● Greg Owen bly saam met sy ma in hulle huis in Sandhurst.
Greg Owen lives with his mother in their home in Sandhurst.
● Hy beskryf die atmosfeer in die huis as skemer en hoofsaaklik klankloos.
He describes the atmosphere in the house as dusk and mainly soundless
● Depresiewe kom lê in jou as jy die huis binnestap - soos 'n opgekrulde slang.
Depressiveness comes to you when you step into the house – like a coiled
snake.
● Greg het hierdie swaar gevoel ervaar die dag toe hy teen die middel van
matriek Lawson Kollege verlaat het - ongeveer 'n jaar en 'n half gelede.
Greg experienced this heavy feeling the day he left at the middle of matric
Lawson College – about a year and a half ago.
● Hy dink aan die moeilike tyd gedurende sy pa se hofsaak.
He thinks of the difficult time during his father’s court case.
● Thomas Lawson, TJ se oupa, het wel eendag vir sy ma blomme gebring en
gesê sy moet hom kontak as sy iets nodig het.
Thomas Lawson, TJ’s grandfather, did bring flowers one day to his mother
and told her to contact him if she needed something.
● Nadat alles verby was - skool, Dok, sy pa se hofsaak, die media -vreetfees -
het die depresiewe gevoel agtergebly.
After everything was over – school, Dock, his father’s court case, the media
freenzie– remained behind the depressed feeling.
● Greg stel baie belang in 'n Conrad Botes skildery uit sy "Temptations to Exist"
- reeks
Greg is very interested in a Conrad Botets painting from his “Temptations to
Exist” – series.
● Greg kyk na al sy bagasie wat gereed is vir sy vertrek na Stellenbosch
(Maties) Universiteit die volgende dag.
Greg looks at all his bags that are ready for his departure to Stellenbosch
(Maties) University the next day.
● Greg sukkel om te slaap omdat hy skuldig voel dat hy sy pa in die tronk laat
beland het en as gevolg van die donker skaduwees van die verlede.
Greg struggles to sleep because he feels guilty that he’s got his father into
prison and because of the dark shadows of the past.
● Hy gaan na sy oorlede broer, John, se kamer.
He goes to his late brother, John,’s room.
● Sy ma het sedert John se dood niks in sy kamer verander nie.
His mother hasn’t changed anything in his room since John’s death.
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,● Om die herinnering aan John lewendig te hou dink Greg aan die tye wat hy en
sy broer saam deurgebring het:
To keep the memory of John alive, Greg thinks of the times he and his brother
spent together:
● Hulle het saam gaan reksprong spring by Orlando-towers
in Soweto.
They went to bungee jumping at Orlando towers in
Soweto.
● Hulle was by die reuse-touswaai by die Moses Mabhida-
stadium in Durban.
They were at the giant rope swing at the Moses Mabhida
Stadium in Durban.
● John het aan Greg gesê hy hou van die val en die vrees -
die adrenalien storm.
John told Greg he likes the fall and the fear – the
adrenaline storm.
● John het altyd vir Greg saamgesleep op sy avonture: bungee jumping, white-
water rafting op die Oranjerivier en rotsklim in Kaapstad.
John always dragged Greg on his adventures: bungee jumping, whitewater
rafting on the Orange River and rock climbing in Cape Town.
● John het die grens van die lewe gekry toe hy selfmoord gepleeg het deur pille
te drink.
John got the boundary of life when he committed suicide by drinking pills.
● Toe Greg en sy ouers by die hospitaal aankom het John op pad in die
ambulans gesterf.
When Greg and his parents arrived at the hospital, John died on the way in
the ambulance.
● Greg se pa het iets vir hom in die motor gese, nadat sy ma na die ambulans
geloop het, wat hom so geskok het dat hy dit nooit aan enige iemand
oorvertel het nie.
Greg’s father said something to him in the car, after his mother walked to the
ambulance, which shocked him so much that he never told it to anyone.
● In John se kamer is al sy sport medaljes en die rugbybal wat in Lawson
kollege se gedenkmuseum was.
In John’s room all his sports medals and the rugby ball that was in Lawson
College’s memorial museum are there.
● Sy vertel vir Greg dat sy dan dikwels die deure en vensters toegemaak en
hard geskree het want sy het pyn gehad en was eensaam.
She tells Greg that she then often closed the doors and windows and shouted
loudly because she had pain and was lonely
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, ● Dit is die eerste keer dat Rina Owen vir Greg hiervan vertel.
This is the first time Rina Owen told Greg about it.
● Rina voel dat almal vir wie sy lief is van haar weggevat word.
Rina feels that everyone she loves is taken away from her.
● Greg voel baie jammer vir sy ma.
Greg feels very sorry for his mother.
Hoofstuk 2
● Hy is besig om sy bagasie in die motor te laai.
He is busy loading his luggage in the car
● Hy neem ook die Conrad Botes-skildery saam en neem met sy selfoon 'n foto
van John se foto in die ingangsportaal.
He also takes the Conrad Botes painting and with his phone takes a photo of
John’s photo in the entrance portal.
● Sy ma se afskeidswoorde aan Greg is dat hy nou paaie gaan loop wat nie vir
John toegelaat is nie. Gelukkig vir Greg en jammer vir John.
His mother’s farewell words to Greg is that he is now going to walk roads that
were not allowed for John. Fortunately for Greg and sorry for John.
● Sy sê ook aan Greg dat die dinge wat hy inpak is die dinge wat hy saam met
hom moet dra.
She also tells Greg that the things he does pack are the things he must carry
with him.
● Wanneer Greg vertrek voel dit vit hom soos die einde van 'n hoofstuk in sy
lewe.
When Greg departs it feels like the end of a chapter in his life.
● Op die lang pad haal die Spoke van die verlede vir Greg in:
On the long road, the ghosts of the past catch up with Greg:
○ Hy onthou hoe verpletter hy was toe hy uitgevind het van Eckhardt
Wilken se verraad (deceit).
He remembers how crushed he was when he found out of Eckhardt
Wilken’s betrayal (deceit).
○ Hoe hy as hacker (kuberkraker) 'n sosiale manipulering aanval (social
engineering) op die Owen-gesin geloods het.
How he, as hacker launched a social manipulating attack (social
engineering) on the Owen family.
○ Greg se pa, Chris Owen, was saam met Dok betrokke by die
binnehandel (insider trading). (onwettige besit van vertroulike
informasie van maatskappy) en die omkooptrañsaksie met regter
Gericke.
Greg’s father, Chris Owen, was involved with Dock in the negotiating
(insider trading. (illegal possession of confidential information from
company) and the bribery trañsaction with Judge Gericke.
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,○ Dit het tot die regter se verdwyning en vermoedelike moord gelei
waarvoor Dok Pienaar verantwoordelik was.
It was until the judges disapperance en presmably murder for which
Doctor Pienaar was responsible.
○ Greg het onder leiding van Eckhardt die hele Project Nursery Rhyme
oopgevlek wat gelei het tot Dok Pienaar se arrestasie, maar onwetend
het Greg ook sy eie pa in die tronk laat beland.
Greg was headed by Eckhardt to open the entire Project Nursery
Rhyme, which led to Doc Pienaar’s arrest, but unwittingly Greg also
landed his own father in prison.
○ Toe Greg se pa tronk toe is, was hulle geld veilig in trustfonds gebêre
en dit het hulle finansieel beskerm
When Greg’s father was jailed, their money was securely stored in trust
funds and it protected them financially
○ Greg se gesin is eintlik uitmekaar geskeur.
Greg’s family is actually torn apart
○ Toe hulle Greg se besittings by die koshuis gaan haal het, het die hoof
(die stigter van Lawson Kollege) Meneer Thomas Jean Lawson gevra
dat hulle hom moes kom spreek.
When they went to get Greg’s possessions at the hostel, the head (the
founder of Lawson College) asked Mr Thomas Jean Lawson to come
and speak to him.
○ Dit was onaangenaam en sommige leerders het lelike opmerkings oor
Greg en sy familie gemaak.
It was unpleasant and some learners made ugly remarks about Greg
and his family.
○ Greg het die flitslig en blinddoek, wat hy in graad 8 tydens die tonnel-
ritueel gekry het, in sy bed kassie se laai gelos.
Greg left the flashlight and blind fold, which he got in Grade 8 during
the tunnel ritual, in his bedside table.
○ Kwanele, die nüwe hoofseun, het vir Greg vriendelik kom groet met die
Kollege se géheime handdruk. (Greg was verbaas daaroor)
The new headboy came to Greg kindly greeted him with the College’s
secret handshake. (Greg was surprised at it)
○ Toe hulle by die skoolhek uitgery het, het Plank, sy vriend agter die
motor aangehardloop.
When they drove e out the school gate, Plank ran after his friend
behind the car.
○ Greg het sy matriekjaar en eindeksamen by in tiardolsonium voltooi.
Greg completed his matric year and final exam at homeschool.
○ Greg het ook vir Plank vertel dat hulle alles van die Owen-seuns uit die
skool se gedenkmuseum verwyder het en aan hulle teruggegee het:
Greg also told Plank that they had removed everything from the
school’s memorial museum and returned them:
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, ■ Al Greg se trofees.
All Greg's trophy.
■ John se skoolbaadjie,
foto's en getekende
rugbybal.
John’s school rugby
jersey, photos and
signed rugby ball.
● Greg sal nou 'n eerste jaar student wees, want hy het 'n jaar afgevat- hofsake
Greg will now be a first year student, because he has taken off school for a
year because of the court cases.
● Tydens sy pa en Dok se verhoor het hy 'n vrou met swart hare en 'n donker
raam bril opgemerk, maar nie weer daarna nie.
During his father and Dock’s trial, he noticed a woman with black hair and a
dark framed glasses, but not again after that.
● Greg slaap oor by 'n gastehuis. - Beaufort west
Greg sleeps over at a guest house. – Beaufort West
● Hy gaan soek iets om te eet en sien hoe meisies, so jonk as tien jaar, by 'n
truckstop rondhang om geld te maak en hy sien dit as die donker web van
armoede.
He’s going to look for something to eat and sees how girls, as young as ten
years, hang around at a truckstop to make money and he sees it as the dark
web of poverty.
Hoofstuk 3
● Tydens ontbyt in die gastehuis, herken 'n vrou vir Greg en pla hom met
opmerkings en vrae oor sy pa.
During breakfast in the guest house, a woman recognizes Greg and bothers
him with comments and questions about his father.
● Chloe is bale vriendelik en vra baie vrae en flankeer openlik met hom, maar
Greg is afsydig en wil nie eintlik gesels nie.
Chloe is very friendly and asks many questions and flirts openly with him, but
Greg shows no interest and doesn’t actually want to chat.
● Plank se Lawson-handdruk vang vir Greg onkant. (Greg weer verbaas - soos
met Kwanele)
● Plank's Lawson hand shake catches Greg by surprise. (Greg once again
surprised – as with Kwanele.)
● Nicole se ouers het Greg verbied om haar te sien nadat hulle uitgevind het
van sy kuberkrakery (hacking).
Nicole’s parents prohibited Greg from seeing her after finding out about his
hacking.
● Greg sê die verhouding was in elk geval besig om dood te loop.
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