The new Wesselsbron Hinterland branch was built in 2014 .
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Johnny Bezuidenhout is the Hinterland branch manager .
white and yellow maize to wheat and sunflower . There are also rail outloading facilities , but road transport is used to a much larger extent . The complex has six aeration fans . An additional aeration fan has been installed at Silo 277 and two at Silo 234 ..
FORMER SILO MANAGER , DAVID MARAIS Producers in the area will remember the former silo manager at Wesselsbron . He worked for Senwes for 27 years , the last two decades of which as silo manager . He tells us that it was not unusual for the silo to be filled to the brim - this happened two to three times during his career at Senwes .
Talking about Senwesters , other well-known Senwesters in town include former Senwes director WH van Zyl and his son , Thabo van Zyl , who is a current director on the board of Senwes .
New Hinterland branch in 2014
JOHNNY BEZUIDENHOUT YOUR BRANCH MANAGER Johnny Bezuidenhout is the branch manager at Hinterland Wesselsbron . He is a man from the area , for the area . He has been working here since 1994 . He was
branch manager at Wolmaransstad and has been the branch manager at Hinterland , Wesselsbron since 2013 .
BRANCH HISTORY A bit more history - former branch manager and current relationship manager , Flip Tait , told us about the history . Flip has been working for Senwes since 1967 and he knows the history . The new branch opened at 10 PL Kotze Street in September 2014 , a year after Flip ’ s tenth anniversary as branch manager . The branch and fuel station were here in the past , since Senwes opened here in 1964 . The mechanisation division used to be in Grossman Street and the stores were situated in the industrial areas since the amalgamation with Kroonstadwes on 3 April 1991 .
UNIQUE ASPECTS ABOUT THE BRANCH Through John Deere they have a 96 % mechanisation market share . They are also the largest mechanisation division in the Senwes area . The old key for the first branch was found when 30 employees were passing boxes to one another . When one of the boxes where thrown onto the truck , the key fell out and one of the sales clerks , Vlooi Barnard , found it .
CHURCHES There are various churches in town . The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1939 and designed by Gerard Leendert Pieter Moerdijk , who was also responsible for designing the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and the Dutch Reformed church in Piet Retief .
The cornerstone of the Dutch Reformed Church-North was laid in 1966 and the church was inaugurated in 1967 . This church was designed by a Mr Hartman . AFS and APC churches were also estalblished at a later stage .
Things worth seeing
ALOE DICHOTOMA ( KOKERBOOM ) A rare aloe dichotoma can be found in Bredenkamp Street , around the corner from the old Dutch Reformed church . It is quite rare since these trees are not found in the Panneveld - they are found in Namibia and the Northern Cape .
BUSHMAN DRAWINGS Bushman drawings were found on the farm Boschkop and locals tell us that 80 Bushman engravings have been found .
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The Wesselsbron silo complex with its capacity of more than 297 000 tons is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere .
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