I was first on Wednesday with a story in Die Burger newspaper on the teacher Barend van Vuuren who stunned and absolutely wowed the crowd and judges with his poem at the auditions of SA's Got Talent that starts on 1 October at 19:30 on SABC2.
I just followed it up with a story on the front page of Die Burger today after i tracked and traced him for two days. I spoke with him yesterday back in his classroom in George.
Barend certainly has the Susan Boyle factor - unassuming . . . and then. . . AMAZING! He certainly could make it far in this reality show if judged by the wonderful and loud applause he got from the audience.
You can read the story in Die Burger here (sorry I'm still figuring out how to make ''nice'' links):
