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AUBREY KRUGER
T RADE N E W S
MORE ABOUT YOUR SENWES EQUIPMENT WORKSHOP MANAGER
Pieter van Eeden
T
he focus this time is on Pieter van Eeden, Senwes
Equipment Workshop Manager in Bothaville.
Pieter has been involved in agriculture since 2001 and
was the Workshop Manager at Afgri Middelburg before
he joined Senwes in 2011.
Pieter and his team are at your service should you
run into problems and, with the addition of JD Link,
the efficiency of the team will continue to improve.
Pieter is a family man and “what you see is what you
get.” Pieter and his committed team work closely with
producers. He makes sure that service and price are
maintained at all times.
Pieter’s commitment, honesty and sincerity support
the producer even further. Pieter has been married to his
wife Hanlie for 10 years and they have three children,
Cherize, Lumé and Lika and the fourth addition to the
family, this time a boy, will arrive in July.
Senwes Equipment Workshop Manager at
Bothaville, Pieter van Eeden.
AUBREY KRUGER
KROONSTAD - PART 2:
BEN BRINK,
your faithful Senior Grain Procurer
BEN BRINK
is our faithful Senior Grain Procurer
in Kroonstand. I use the
word faithful because this man has
been with Senwes since 1988 and
has been in Kroonstad since 1996.
But that is not where it all started.
The interesting thing about
Ben is that he, unlike Carike
Keuzenkamp’s Aai Aai die Witborskraai, moved inland from the
Western Cape.
Although he was born in Mossel Bay, he moved to Pretoria at a
young age. He matriculated at the
Hoër Landbouskool Brits, now
known as Wagpos. He remembers
those years well and tells us that
there were 230 boys in the school,
all of whom were hostel dwellers.
“It was wonderful!” After matric
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he studied BSc Agric (Animal
Production) at the University of
Pretoria, or Tuks.
After completion of his two
years military service he returned
to the books for another year
and obtained his Higer Teaching
Diploma at Tuks. He accepted
a teaching position at Wagpos,
where he taught agricultural subjects.
EXCHANGED TEACHING FOR
AGRICULTURE
After five and a half years in the
teaching profession, he joined
Senwes as animal scientist in the
Agricultural Services division in
Klerksdorp in September 1988.
He pursued further studies and
qualified himself as agricultural
economist in 1996, when he ac-
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cepted a position in Kroonstad.
GRAIN PROCURER
When the single channel marketing dispensation changed to a
free marketing dispensation, he
accepted a position as grain procurer at Grain Marketing in Kroonstad. His primary function is
the procurement of grain. Another
important function is to provide
grain marketing information to
producers to enable them to make
informed decisions.
Ben is married to Petra and
they have two children.
Ben likes to read and enjoys
sports in his free time. Bena and
Petra try to jog 30 to 35 kilometres
at least four times a week. Ben says
that jogging is an excellent way of
relieving frustration.