{"id":115428,"date":"2026-06-29T05:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/?p=115428"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:36:17","slug":"ivor-swartz-brings-a-message-of-hope-and-second-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/2026\/06\/29\/ivor-swartz-brings-a-message-of-hope-and-second-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivor Swartz bring \u0149 boodskap van hoop en tweede kanse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div data-parent=\"true\" class=\"vc_row row-container\" id=\"row-unique-0\"><div class=\"row limit-width row-parent\"><div class=\"wpb_row row-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_column pos-top pos-center align_left column_parent col-lg-12 single-internal-gutter\"><div class=\"uncol style-light\"  ><div class=\"uncoltable\"><div class=\"uncell no-block-padding\" ><div class=\"uncont\" ><div class=\"uncode_text_column\" ><\/p>\n<p>\u0149 spreker, mentor en jeugleier wie se lewensverhaal getuig van hoop, verandering en tweede kanse.<\/p>\n<p>Ivor is bekend vir sy werk onder jongmense en is sedert 2007 betrokke by skole, kerke, tronke en jeugkampe. Sy boodskap is gebore uit sy eie ervaring. As \u0149 jong seun het hy uit moeilike omstandighede probeer ontsnap, maar in die proses verkeerde keuses gemaak wat uiteindelik tot tronkstraf gelei het.<\/p>\n<p>Juis daar het sy lewe egter \u0149 nuwe rigting ingeslaan. Met die ondersteuning van \u0149 onderwyser het hy matriek voltooi en besluit dat dit tyd is vir \u0149 nuwe begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEk wil keer dat ander jongmense dieselfde pad stap,\u201d vertel Ivor. \u201cDaar is altyd hoop, maak nie saak hoe donker jou omstandighede lyk nie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e1 sy vrylating in 2005 het hy hom daaraan toegewy om jongmense te inspireer. Vandag besoek hy jaarliks sowat 80 skole deur sy organisasie, Youth the Future, waar hy \u0149 boodskap bring van hoop, verantwoordelikheid en hoe om goeie lewenskeuses te maak.<\/p>\n<p>Akademies het Ivor ook sy merk gemaak. Hy het teologie gestudeer en in 2015 \u0149 BTh-graad behaal, gevolg deur \u0149 honneursgraad in 2019. Hy dien tans as jeugleraar by Oosterlig Gemeente in Pretoria en is betrokke by die #IMAGINE-tienerbeweging. Sy boek, <em>Die verlore seun vannie Gaatjie<\/em>het in 2020 verskyn en is later met die Desmond Tutu\u2013Gerrit Brand-prys bekroon. In 2022 het <em>Kies die lewe: Leer dans in depressie<\/em> gevolg, asook \u0149 televisiereeks op VIA.<\/p>\n<p>Op 1 April het Ivor \u0149 kragtige boodskap van hoop, liefde en omgee gedeel tydens die kinderhuis se jaarlikse Passiespel.<\/p>\n<p>Vir ons kinders was sy besoek \u0149 herinnering dat omstandighede nie die laaste woord het nie, en dat elke kind die kans verdien om \u0149 nuwe storie te skryf.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><script id=\"script-row-unique-0\" data-row=\"script-row-unique-0\" type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"vc_controls\">UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById(\"row-unique-0\"));<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivor Swartz bring \u0149 boodskap van hoop en tweede kanse<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thinkrank_schema_form_data":"","_thinkrank_selected_schema_type":"","_thinkrank_additional_schemas":"","_thinkrank_canonical_url":"","_thinkrank_og_title":"","_thinkrank_og_description":"","_thinkrank_og_image":"","_thinkrank_twitter_title":"","_thinkrank_twitter_description":"","_thinkrank_twitter_image":"","_thinkrank_imported_from":"","_thinkrank_focus_keywords":[],"_thinkrank_focus_keyword":"","_thinkrank_robots_meta_enabled":0,"_thinkrank_robots_meta":"","_thinkrank_advanced_robots_meta":"","_thinkrank_exclude_from_search":0,"_thinkrank_exclude_from_archives":0,"_thinkrank_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,73],"tags":[76,78,242],"class_list":["post-115428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-newsletters","tag-recent-news","tag-newsletters","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115431,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428\/revisions\/115431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}