The March Technology Evening, held at the Durban Country Club, had the benefit of receiving a polished and informative presentation on the topic ‘Electrical explosion protection with focus on flameproof ...
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Feedback from AGM The Tshwane branch AGM was held on 7th February when a new committee was voted in for the year. The members are as follows: chairman and technology: Petrus Klopper (Ai2SA); vice chairman ...
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   Northern Technical College in Ndola relaunched its SAIMC branch at the college during February by electing a new committee to steer the branch into the new year. The new committee replaces students ...
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Executive Planning Session    At the upcoming Executive Planning Session, the SAIMC will discuss various issues that need to be addressed. Some of these include:    • Driving education standards to address ...
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The plan for the year is to focus on technical evenings, site visits (Aerosud is a possibility but still to be confirmed), publishing technical papers, hosting training and speaking at events. Of course ...
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AGM    The branch AGM was held on 18 January at Honeywell HUB in Secunda. All the successes of 2017 were discussed and the new committee for 2018 was elected as follows:    • Johan Maritz (chairman, golf ...
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The branch AGM was held on 7 February at the usual Durban Country Club venue. Whilst AGMs never seem to attract the same attendance as technology evenings, we were happy with the turnout and, as usual, ...
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A quest for smooth transition Someone once said: “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant.” My ‘thank you’ moment has ...
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Annual dinner One of the highlights of the year is always the annual dinner which was held last year at uShaka Marine World, the fifth largest aquarium in the world. On the night of 25 November 2017, ...
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The branch hosted its annual year-end function at Graceland Casino and Country Club on Friday 17 November 2017. This was an event which everyone looked forward to and proved a great way to strengthen ...
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Dear industry colleagues. Welcome to 2018. Of course as I am writing this it is still 2017 and we are all wondering if there will be an ANC elective conference? Who will be the successor of Jacob Zuma? ...
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On 22 November, members of the SAIMC gave talks to some students at Mangosuthu University of Technology about the role of the SAIMC in bridging the current gap between education and the requirements of ...
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