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David Kramer tells the heartwarming tale behind his famous rooi vellies
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"Rooi Velskoene
To this day people remember me for my red velskoene. If I'm out and about and not wearing them, I get stopped and asked why I am not wearing them. They have been my trademark for the past 33 years.
Let me tell you how that came about. In 1974, when I returned to Worcester having graduated from Leeds University, I met Boet van der Hoven who was teaching art at the Hugo Naude Art Centre where I was once a pupil. We became friends and a few years later, in the early 80s, while enjoying my early success with my songs I did a concert in Oudtshoorn where Boet and his wife Sarah were now living. Boet had found a pair of "rooi velskoene" with motor car tyre soles in the local trading store and bought them for me as a present. I was delighted and wrote him a thank you note that included this little verse:
"Tjikkeling, tjikkeling, tjikkely
Een vir 'n geel pampoen
Twee vir 'n rooi velskoen
Hoe lekker kry ek nou"
This later became the chorus of one of my big hits: Stanley en die Koei which was based on Abraham de Vries's story: Die koei en die tand.
Boet died in 2003, but when I put on my velskoene, I think of him. Dankie Boet."
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