AFRICA NEWS
Cricket SA signs deal with Kemach JCB
Corrie van Zyl (general manager, Cricket SA).
Equipment to our team of commercial
partners and look forward to fruitful and long-
lasting partnership with them,” concluded
Moroe.
Les Lothian, Kemach JCB CEO, said:
“We are really excited to be able to assist
Cricket SA with the equipment needed to
improve facilities that will develop talent in
underprivileged areas and grow the talent
pool.” ■
On Monday, 27 November 2017 Cricket South
Africa (CSA) welcomed Kemach Equipment
on board as an official supplier of tandem
drum and walk-behind rollers, as well as the
associated training for groundsmen, on a three-
year contract that will run until October 2020.
Through the contract, Kemach Equipment,
the South African dealer for JCB earthmoving
machinery, will play an integral role in providing
resources to maintain and upkeep facilities
for all 62 of CSA’s hubs and Standard Bank
Regional Performance Centres.
“This will be another big boost for our
development programme as we roll out
more and more community hubs around the
country,” said CSA acting chief executive
Thabang Moroe. “It is extremely heartening
to see companies involving themselves
at grassroots level and particularly in
underprivileged areas where the need is the
greatest.”
“As costs continue to rise in maintaining
and upkeeping our facilities in underprivileged
areas, this deal will go a long way to assist us
in ensuring we develop the best talent in the
areas, as they will now have the resources to
maintain their facilities. We welcome Kemach
From left: David Mokopanele (manager: Mass Participation, Cricket SA), Pieter Scholtz (CFO, Kemach
JCB), Corrie van Zyl (general manager, Cricket SA), Les Lothian (CEO, Kemach JCB), and Mark Senyard
(national support and marketing manager, Kemach JCB).
From left: Driver Andries Malebane (groundsman), Les Lothian (CEO, Kemach JCB), Pieter Scholtz (CFO,
Kemach JCB), Harmony Ntshinga (head coach, Dobsonville RPC), and Jason Maswanganyi, head coach,
Alexandra Hub).
KwaZulu-Natal-based safety equipment
supplier FTS Safety Group received the
prestigious Lieutenant Award for KZN at
the BBF Awards’ ceremony after having the
highest volume of sales for BBF footwear
in one calendar year. The organisation
distributed thousands of units of footwear
throughout South Africa and abroad, the
majority of which went to members of
the agriculture, manufacturing, and oil
and gas industries. The BBF Awards were
established in 2010 and serve as a way
to encourage distributors and suppliers of
safety equipment, while rewarding deserving
organisations. The event also shows
appreciation to dedicated clients, who are
invited to attend. Following the chairman’s
annual overview, the several award
categories are announced, including the
various brand awards and seven provincial
Lieutenant Awards.
Concord Cranes, a crane-hire and
specialised transport service company
in the InServe stable, has completed
the Mthatha River bridge project in the
Eastern Cape for main client Haw &
Inglis. The project involved construction
of a 90m-long bridge comprising three
32m-long spans, with an average height
from ground level of 8m. The substructure
comprised two abutments and two piers.
The 750t crane was sourced from group
company Concord Castle, which brought
it in from Germany, as the 550t crane
included in the original quote — the
largest available in Concord Cranes’ fleet
at the time — would have necessitated
construction of large platforms requiring
stabilisation on the 3m-deep silt riverbed
to extend the crane’s reach.
Spartan-based vibrating screen specialist
Kwatani is supplying a large exciter-driven
grizzly feeder capable of feeding over 750tph
of ore, and a single-deck, motor-driven sizing
screen of the same throughput capacity to
the Gamsberg zinc project near Aggeneys in
the Northern Cape. As the flagship of miner
Vedanta Zinc International/Black Mountain
Mining, Gamsberg is set to exploit one of the
largest known, undeveloped zinc ore bodies
in the world, with SA-based ELB Engineering
Services conducting the engineering,
procurement, and construction (EPC) services.
Built with cast manganese grizzly bars for
durability, this robust unit will withstand
maximum lump sizes of up to 1.5m in size.
After fabrication, the equipment was fully
tested on Kwatani’s in-house test bench at its
17 000m 2 facilities near OR Tambo airport.
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