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Swartland Gazette
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Local insurer joins Hollard, becomes SA’s second largest The integration of Etana Insurance with the Hollard Group will give expanded benefits to brokers and their clients because size determines how innovative and market-responsive an insurer can afford to be in creating new products to meet continually changing conditions as well as determining reinsurance treaties and claim capacities that insurers can negotiate. “And there is no industry with more and continuous environmental change than agriculture,” says Malmesbury resident and agri insurance specialist, Andre van der Walt. He is the former chief executive officer and shareholder of Etana Agri, now integrated with the Hollard Group with the goal of creating South Africa’s second largest insurer. Globally, Hollard has offices in 10 countries on four continents and a premium annual turnover of over R10 billion. Andre “Hollard is also the largest privately owned insurance company in South Africa, which means they are free to take a long term view when introducing new products and benefits because they don’t have to answer to shareholder demands for immediate profits. This is important
van der Walt consumer information when looking for fair deals in insurance.” Specialist agri insurance has its roots in Malmesbury the local innovation has become nationally known. “The Hollard presence in our Swartland area will grow on the
foundation laid locally by Sentrisure Agricultural Underwriters (Pty) Ltd that I established 2007. We partnered Etana in 2011, becoming Etana Agri. Now the integration with Hollard Insurance makes us Hollard Agri with a greatly expanded offering of products and specialists to our brokers and their clients. “Our local team has an amazing combined 141 years of experience and we are all proud to have gone from strength to strength from our Swartland roots. Our management and staff is unchanged except for the additional specialists that we have appointed as we developed. “We retain a financial interest in the new Hollard Broker Markets division and our specialist support of Agri in South Africa is our major passion.” Andre says the importance of agriculture in Africa is a given. “Africa must become self sufficient in all food production. Hollard is socially comitted to assist, train and arrange for specialist advisors and support for African Farmers. We are already in Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia and there is more to do.”
SAFARI-RAAISELRIT: Die Wingerdstudiegroep het Saterdag hul jaarlikse wingerdsafari op die plaas Jakkalsfontein buite Malmesbury gehou waar meer as 100 mense in 40 voertuie aan die gebruiklike raaiselrit deur die wingerde deelgeneem het. Jaco Geldenhuys, die hooforganiseerder van dié dag, sê die safari was ’n groot sukses met meer as 200 mense wat deur die hekke gekom het. Terwyl die grootmense die raaiselrit gedoen het, het Toeloe Basson (van links), Arno Loots, Phillip Schutte en Lieb Loots op hul motorfietse baljaar.
Die braaiers en hul assistente het gesorg dat niemand honger huis toe gegaan het nie. Van links is Hein Marais, Johan Basson, Cherise da Silva, Marlene Botha en JJ Sprong. FOTO’S: LIZETTE SMIT
Sowat 50 kinders het saam met hul ouers die dag meegemaak en is besig gehou met aktiwiteite soos hierdie waterglybaan. FOTO’S: LIZETTE SMIT
Een van die voertuie met safari-gangers kom by die eindpunt aan. Elke span het ’n vraestel gekry waarvan die antwoorde langs die roete beskikbaar was. Liam Viljoen en Jaco Geldenhuys merk die vraestelle sodat die beste safari-gangers hul geborgde pryse later dié dag tydens ’n prysuitdelingseremonie kon ontvang. FOTO: LIZETTE SMIT
Deelnemers vergelyk die antwoorde op hul vraestelle en bespreek die oggend se raaiselrit. FOTO: LIZETTE SMIT