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,lLlNE 1963 Vi-rL r NO

Salute to three outstanding men by Group chairman Ola Grinaker

Mike Bush Vice-c hai rman,

ri nake

r Hold ings

35 yearc of service

Our o{ganization is approaching its fiftieth annlversary. lt is unrecognizable of course from those start-up years. ln lact, in lhe last iive years, assets managed have increased from approximately sixty million rand to nearly two hundred million rand at this time. Our gearing ratio has hardiy changed in this period. 11 is well under the norm which means our financial health is more than satisiactory. We can congralulate the mariy people who in the

past have helped to achieve this envious.ecord over these many years. Our roots were well planted and today they are very deep and firm; the trunk that leeds from them is immensely strong. Mike Bush, Peter Nuyten and Arthur Reynolds are three men amongst the group's achievers; over one hundred years in combined service. What did they have in common? Why did they have such an impact on our successes? They had perception. They had energy, outstand:ng energy. They had honesty, honesty that was simple to see and feel. They had concern lor the people with whom they worked. Their consistency of effort throughout their working lives must be admired by all o1 us. We salute lhem jn wishing them the best in thejr well deserved retirement. May they be given much more time to enjoy the f ruits of their labours. God bless them too.

Peter Nuyten Director, Grinaker Holdings, chairman of the gtoup's construction division,3S years ot service

One may well ask, "Who is going to say goodbye to Ola Grinaker himselt?" He has been with the group fot thirty-seven years and has reached retiring age. To this the chairman replies that he is staying on as

chairman (non-executive) and will still concern himself with the group's aftairc tor some time to come. He feels that goodbyes at this stage are premature.

Arthur Reynolds

Director, Ginaker Holdings, chaitman ot Amalgamated Reintorcing, 37 yearc ot service Gtinatot Gazelte June

1983

R60 million contract under way at U co

Part of the massive civil contract being undertaken by Grinaker Concrete Construction and Concor

by Howard Jones

work inc ludes structu ral steel and cladd b

ing, railway sidings

and

uild in g work.

For the benefit of the statisticians this includes 120000m3 of structural concrete Peaking at 13 000m3 per month between July

and December 1983. The average

height at which concrete is to be placed is some thirty metres above natural ground level. The shutter to concrele ratio is between two and a quarter to one and two and a hall to o ne. With the exception oI the four prestressed concrete silos on which the

Grinaker hydraulic climbing

The Grinaker flag is once again flying proudly in the CaPe Province. ln a pooled resource joint venture with old friends Concor Co nstructio n, Grinaker Concrete Construction (as principal Partner) is contracted to Anglo AlPha for the construction of a new cement factory in Ulco. The R60 million contract involves all the civil wo rk. wh ich in ad d ition

normal terracing and Gnnaket Gazette

Ju.e 1gla

the

co nc rete

shutter is beinq used, the shuttering is being carried out using standard equipment. ln add itio n to the above there are 50001 of structural steel,95000m3 0l asbestos cladding,4,5km of concrete roads. 9km of trackwork and approximately 250 000m: of ea rt

wo rks.

Under site agent Dave King (a director ot Concor West) the contract has been divided into seven

sections, each headed by a section agent. The Grinaker section

agents are Craig Mdhle, Phil Marsh, John Colman and Greg Smit. The concrete placing is being carried out by a separate

placing team and Grinaker company Amalgamated Reinfo rcing is responsible for the fixing of rernf orcement. The co-ord ination is l

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Grinaket and Concor men on site. Back: Joachim Martins, Manuel Pineito, lV Rodriques, John Gomes, Tim Fynn, Mark Alberts, Anton van der Westhuizen, Mauro Dudine, Koos Jonker, Trevor lngram, Phil Marsh, Craig Mohle, Hercules Oosthuizen. Front: Nuno Goncalves, Manuel dos Santos, Tony Laranjeira, Greg Smit, Joe Carneiro, Pierre Rousseau the responsibility of general foreman Johnny Zaremba, who also

controls the shutter yard and labour recruitment. Other G

rinaher

pe rsona lrties in volved in

the contract are Arnold Olivier, prolecl accountant. Robbie

Schmidt, plant aqent, Tim Fynn

foremen include Manuel Dos Santos, Joe Ca rne iro, John Gomes, Gustav de las Heras, Augusto Verissimo and Tony La

;

survey control and Mike

Brophy on quantities. Concrete

ranjeira.

The contract is due for completion in November 1984 and with the strong team on site we are confident of achieving this date.

Joh

nny Zaremba

G naket

Gazette

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19n3

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At the site office. Back: Mike McDonnetl, Rainer Schmitz, Dave King, Deon vah Niekerk, Gloria Badenhorst, Anita van Wyk, Howard Jones, Emily van der Merwe, Dave Price, Lizette Visser, Susan Mcllear, Karel Rost, Arnotd Olivier. Front: Jerry Tsoai, Dirk Filander, Tim Fynn

Part of the large lJlco team. Back: Joseph Kyonyape, Robett Masinga, Janie Mokoena, Gibson Ndaba, Lucas

Dlamini, Johannes Makua, Qaswel Nchabeleng, Amos Gasela, Bongolakhe Mde, Lipson Malope' Daniel Moeketsi. Middte: Poison Makua, Jongile Ndlela, John Mzwane, Mkangeli Rilityana, Joseph Chaka, Zacharia Legong, Johnson Sambo, John Sebekedi, Johannes Mafemo, Mortis Matlala, Syivester Kyopodimetse, Capson Nkwinika, Sabela Mguni, Ndzonga Tomose. Front: William Sonamzi, Shayinduku Zondo, William Mpemvana, wiltiam Selebogo, Philip Mkwanazi, Samuel Segang, George Lekalakala, Andrew Seame, Archie Mawele, July Mabela, Samens Mabotia, Doctor Phohleli G'tnake' Gazete June 1983

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ERMKER E4ZETTE The Grinaker Gazette

-'-\ I Secti

published as a house journal by Grinaker Holdinqs Limited. Viewpoints expressed are not necessarily shared by the publishers or the editor.

on lead e rs' meet ng i

Editorial offices, 5 Ronbex Road, Elandstontein, Transvaal. P.O. Box 8042, Elandstontein 1406. Telephone (011) 58-8915

EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS: O.W. Grinaker H.M. Bush A.D. Sherwood EDITOR:

Michael Sandrock PUBLISHING ASSISTANTS:

Diana Hallowes, Allyson Armstrong

ABEA CORRESPONDENTS: Peter Blof ield, Amalgamaied Reintorcing, Natal Ted Todd, Bay Stone Sales

At the Ulco village: Dina Scnmidt, Hannelie Estrella, Heidi Schmidt

An d rea

Nelson, Gweru,

Zimbabwe

Grinaker Plant: Russell Cowdrey, Harry Mahrai, Jack Denz

Schalk Vorster, Grinel Deryck Howard, Durban/New Germany Peter Kent, Grinaker Concrete Construction

Nico Maas, S.A.

Piled

Foundations

Brian Stobbart, G rin aker North lan Friend, Grinaker (Cape)

Mary Warrior, Grinaker

Precast Terry Heine, Richards Bay Berry McGee, Grinaker Mining

Grinaker Plant men at Ulco. Back: Joh n Mothelesi, Sylvester Makwae, Hawhin. Robbie Schmidt. Front: lsmael M ontsh i wa, All red Kg at hane

Johan Hamman. Ray

Front cover: one of SA Piled Foundations' auger piling machines spinning otl at the Technikon site. Picture by the Gazette.

Grnaket Gazette JLne 1943

Unibo.

gh standards demanded

Building of residence hostels tor the

by John McLaughlin

niversity of

Bo ph ut

atswana

over oI the lirst phase will be in July this year as programmed. Credit must go to a team ol men old building skills of yesterday have not been losl, by building to a style of architecture seldom seen among today's modern sq uare, g lass bu ild ing s.

who are proving that the

The overall proiect is expected to

cost R17 million. lt will incorporate a central lecture block with a seating capacity of 2200 seals and three separate residence complexes, which will house 750

The challenging project th at Grinaker Bu ild ing has under-

in L4mabatho, capital .of Bophuthatswana, as part of the expansion prog ramme for the Unrversity of Boph uthatswa na. is progressing at a fast pace. Handlaken

Gtrnakat Gazexe June 19a3

students each in his or her own bedroom/sludy. To achieve individuality in the central lecture block, the designers have tested 10 the fullest the ability of our

concrete team to work to an exactness of delail rarely experienced in civil constructio n. John [/cCormick is site agent with Gerry l\,4c Kelvie assisting him. N,4an uel Franco, George Nobrega, Alan Peel and Neville l\4organ form the structures team on the concrele, with Ray Lockhart who willsupervise the building lads. The work is on pro-

gramme and with the team spirit on the site we are confident of completing on time.

At the residence hostels we have been exposed to one of the most difficult brickwork designs; it can have jew comparisons. Fortunately we have building men with sound experience who are creating a good image tor Grinaker in their ability to do the job. Jurgen Krilper leads the building men on site with Hennie Brits as general f oreman controlling all the brickwork. Backing them is Pieter van Staden, who has the awesome task of programming the daily activities. Hennie Erasmus, Willie Barendse and Lucas Labuschagne have the respo nsibility oI h itting ou r 'b ricks laid per day targel of 23000. which is being achieved with a high local labou r content. The fo remen have been training these men on site. Sam Barnard. in control of the concrete slabs, has done a super job of keeping to the programme. A word of thanks must go to Abilio Feijao who is on loan from Grinaker Transvaal. His app roac h and perlormance for the two months he was with us was exceptional, earning him respect f rom everyone on site. The settlng out has been the responsibility of Gerry Torode, ensuring that we build the residences in the rig ht place. Keeping our plant running is Les Howard. Backing our team on site are Don Brown as senior site agent and Bill L4cKenzie and Glen Howarth as mabalanes, with young Phil Smith and Elias Serite assisting them. Alex Milne is our senior quantity surveyor on site and has the unenviable task of finding the money. Fortunately, he is better at that than find ing the d o uble on the site dartboard. Helping Alex in his never-ending search are lan Donnelly and Rob Scorgie. Danie Venter, N4alcolm Glenday and Dukes Swartz are our daily costing team; a most essential job which is being done with dedication by them.

A word of thanks goes to

beginning with advice and is always ava ilable to help. With the ever watchf ul eye of Lou Gluckman as construction d irectorguiding us, we have developed a competent team of people who are motivated to establish the name of Grinaker Boph uthaiswana as a major force in the building industry in this new environment in which we find ourselves-

Don Btown, senior site agent

Rob

Newberry, who has given his time to the job on many occasions to assist us, and to lan Decker, who

has contributed from the 6

Construction work to exacting standards on the central lecture block

Jurgen KAlper, leads the building men on site Gnnake' G.zcne,lune 19a3

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lJnibo, central lecture block team. Back: Albert Malatjie, Neville Morgan, Dyke Mofia, John Matlala, Titus Mbowane, Alan Peel, Manuel Franco, Billy Bekker, John Mccormick, Danie Venter, Ray Lockhatt. Front: Gerry McKelvie, George Nobrega, Jack Kganyago, Joseph Mashego, Headman Mnengisa .

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Building men at Unibo. Back: Sam Barnard, Petros Matube, Willie Barendse, Lucas Maine, Benedict Seleke, Lucas Labuschagne, Gaty Burford, Jan Lenjoa, Louis Doza, Abilio Feiiao, Pieter van Staden ,Hennie Brits, Hennie Erasmus, Gerry Torcde. Middle: Dirk Diraditf ile, Solomon Ngomane, Johannes Pule, Abdull Gaf oor, Silas Mohulabi, Zacharia Booysen, Jonas Masirc, Nimrod Magadlela, James Obusitfe, Samuel Kekawa, Edison Siweya. Front: Albin Charles, Willie Labuschagne, John Tasker, William Tshabile, Jacob Poho, cideon Grif f iths a Gnnaket Gazette June 1933

Construction on part of the new road from Cato Ridge to lnchanga Station being undertaken by Grinaker ( Natal )

From Cato Ridge to lnchanga main road together with 3,3km of

Colin Fowles

the past ten months. Deep sub-

passing lanes.

soils, large Armco pipes, swamp

Deep cuts and fjlls over three kilometres oI road have provided us with very interesting work over

road/rail bridge are su bstantially

excavation (18090mr) and

complete with one minor o bstac le

remaininq:

the erection of

The new road from Cato Ridge to

lnchanga station is on programme for completion early in 1984. The contract, priced at R6,6 million, provides for the construction of 7,8km of provincial 8

Completed portion of the road G .aket

Gazene JLna 19A3

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Kunene. Background: Samson Zungu

Construction on the road-over-rail bridge

reinforced earth

em ban

ment

with precast concrete lacing panels.

Site person nel, w jth a f ew changes along the way, started with An d y An derson on establish -

ment and drainage work, Chris Laqua on subsoils, Bob Wilson concrete f oreman, Gavin Ward the main surveyor with Koos van Schalkwyk g iving assistance jor three months. Bill Wain does quantities and general site man-

agement. Brad N,4ather started on the bridges, Iater to be replaced by Grant Lister-James. Earthworks loreman is Roll .Breytenbach. Elphas Mazibuko joined us in December to keep earthworks going while Rolf concentrated

At the site office. Back: Elphas Mazibuko. Middle: Everest Nsibande, Samson Mabude, Richard Thetha, George Forbay, Petros Zaca, Rolf Breytenbach, Bill Bossouw, Steyen Schalit. Front: Billy Wain, Andy Anderson, Howard Watson, Dennis Kearney

mainly on sub-base and basecover. Steve Schalit is our soils and costing expert. Jimmy Hilland is on pipes and gabions. am site aqent and Barry Willan is I

contracts manager.

Plant

controlled

N4artin

Venade with Robert Correa as toreman on site. Petros Zaca is the sile clerk. Taken f rom The Anglovaler

Titsi Jama, Frank Shezi, Grant Lister-James, Japhet Mcambi, Robert Wilson

Standing: Andreas Nene, Nkanyana Tenza, Gavin Ward, Aggreman Miggels, Jimmy Hilland, Mziwakhe Hlongwa, Skantsi Monaheng. Kneeling: Ereck zulu

,) Plantmen: Shaun Stanley, Andrew Stanley, Robert Correa, Bhekifa Zulu 10

March 1983 Addressing head office, m ine and industrial company managers after Anglovaal's annual gen eral meeting, chairman Basil Hersov foc ussed attention on inter-g ro u p trading. Th is, he felt, was not used to its full advantage and was the one area where the d ifferent companies within the group could help each other in these recessionary times. When calling for tenders, g rou p com pan ies sho u ld not favo u r f ellow members rf t heir tenders are not competitive, but at least give them the opportunity to tender in the first place. The chairman went on to say that although the group's 'lndex of Group Companies' co p ies of which are held (or should be) by all group companies gives a wide description oI services and products availab le for inter-trading, some of the specialized services are not listed and thereiore companies are not aware of the services on ojfer. But companies could easily find out by always checking wilh John Henderson, the purchasinq manaqer at Anglovaal head office, before f in alizin g ten ders or enq u iries. It appears, for instance, that many people are not aware of the discount power of Anglovaal's buying department. The department's motto is'combined purc has ing m uscle saves money'and it has recently negotiated better prices for bulk quantities of petrol, d iesel, tyres, packaging materials, p rotective overalls, etc. by pooling requirements on a g rou p-wide basis. This has meant a saving of up to twenty-five per cent in some inslances. Companies not enjoying these lacilities are welcome to do so. and interested parties shou ld co ntact Joh n Hen derson. A better rapport is needed between industrial companies, mines and buying department on the above basis as th is will lead to

mutual benefit through

exchange of goods and services available with in the group. Gtinaket Cazette JDne 19A3

'Structura' takes off

Grinaker Precasl enter ihe concrele masonry field

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Grinaker Precast's new, highly advanced, Structura factory near Halfway House

by John Siebert

ted which was versatile eno ug h to

make ali types and sizes of concrete masonry as well as paving. The factory site chosen was beset with problems when some of the neighbours objected to our re-

zoning application. This set

back a year and added greatly to my grey h air. However, Pat Green in charge of building the plant and s u bseq uent ly running it, did a grand job in promoting the Grinaker image and eventually getting our re-zoning through. The site is in Verwoerdburg, Looking back in thefiles I see that we started to gather information on concrere rasonry early rr 1977. Ou( thoughts were given impetus when Basil Gi bert and Dave Marais returned from an extensive trip overseas to evaluate many aspects of concrete masonry construction in September 1977. Ihe report produced by Basil and Dave is one of the best have seen and was oI great assistance to us as it looked at prob-

to Rossway ' Quarries near Half way House.

adjacent

Construction of the tactory, afJectionately known to us as lvl1, commenced in September '82 and all was ready tor commissioning in February'83. The plant is about the most advanced that one will see anywhere with a tine covered batching system wh ich can handle filty tonnes per hour as weil as a Jully automated prod uction set-up with computer process controls all the way. While the building of the plant

lems from the'user/customer'

side.

Grinaker Precast had been weighing up the possibilities of d ive rsifyin g into new products for some time, and finally concrete masonry was chosen. A high capacity, quality plant was seiecGtinaket Gazette Jtne 1943

Mixer and matetial handling equipment tound

mould racks in the back11

and commissioning was in progress the marketing team, headed by Jimmy Catsavis, was busy try-

ing to work out how to sellsufficient product to keep a hundred block laying teams busy. We have

adopted the generic trade name of Structura, which will apply to all our walling products, with ind ivid ual product names which emphasize the d ilfe re nt textures available. We are producing a variety of high quality products (modular masonry in seven tex-

tures

split, fluted, pitched, etc.) as well as imperial facing bricks, all in four colours, suitable for all wa llin g applications. We also jeel that we have more to offer in the commercial development field,

that is otfice blocks, industrial parks, govern ment buildings and town

h o

uses.

Our products have been well received by architec'ls and developers and we find tremendous interest in the available textures and savings of ten to twenty per

cent on wall costs.

The new company

Grinaker Masonry (Pty) Ltd, part of the Grinaker Precast group, has a strong technical back-up team on hand to advise at the design and co nst ru ct io n stag es. Pete r Sturgeon, who joined us from New Zealand in January, is our expert in the practical use of Structura and tips from him on how to speed up the job and reduce costs will be invaluable to builders.

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Structura sales team. Back: Ep Kleynhans, Mike Whittaker, Peter Sturgeon, Jimmy Catsavis, Donald Marais, John Siebert. Ladies in the middle: Batbara Batret, Heidi Wort, Orlanda Ermitao. Kneeling: Pat Green, Ken Buchanan-Clarke

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Breakthrough tn solar energy utilization

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The Camel solar-powered water pump in action at the Rand Show

At last the wraps are otf one of the

Grinaker g rou p's most closely guarded secrets. The Camel sola r-powered water pump was unveiled by Grinaker Eq uipment Company at the Rand Show on

powered pump tirst occurred to inventor Arnie de Beer in 1978. He teamed up with Grinsales in 1980 and Denys Gillillan became pro-

ject manager. Their team

Denys Gilfillan: led the proiect to

Prof

success

Bee

has

travelled the traditional path of expectation, frustration and, finally, success. They won a

March. The lirst pu blic appearance of the Camel f ollows fouryears of secret

development and testing and an investment of ap proximately R1 million. lnilial press and public reaction suggests that the Camel is seen as a breakthrough in the

practical utilization of

sola r

energy which will be ot considerable value to South Africa, several overseas counlries and the Third World in particular. lt has already been patented in more lhan thirty

countries. The idea ol an inexpensive, uncomplicated and reliable solarGtrh.ket Gazette JLne 1943

ile of r

inventor: Arnie de 13

medal for design/invention at the Rand Show. The Camel pump uses weli known heat engine principles to produce mechanical power fro rn sunshine. lt is ideal for stock and game farms, remote villages and other applications wh ich demand an utterly reliable pump to

operate unattended

lor

lo ng

periods. Needless to say, the use of su n lig ht makes operating costs minimaL It can provide water for up to 400 cattle, depending on the depth pumped. Pumping capacity is up to 20000 litres of water per day and p ressu re head s of u p to 1 00m can be handled. lnstallation is

simple and maintenance is minimal. lt is self-starting and self-

stopping and no attentio'r

needed. other than a occasional c lea n ing of the sola r collecto rs. lt

is, as Grinaker Equipment says, "the ultimate install and forget

varies around R5 000 depending on the number of solar collectors requrred. Grinaher Equipment is gearing up to meet local demand and the Iu ll potential of the Camel

is almost

rncalculable.

system ".

suitable for any part of the world where water is needed and a

A twelve month parts and Jabour warranty is provided and the price

availab le.

plenlrful supply

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Camel solar-power pump development team. Back: Dale Jessop, Arnie de Beer, Denys Giltillan, Richard van Amerom, John Edkins. Front: Unite Matlala, Philemon (casual employee) Gt)naket Gazene June 1983

Ollices and tactory extensions lor Tupperware. Design and construction by Grinaker Proiects

Tu pperwa re. a major tu rn key project Grinaker Projects is well advanced with a major turnkey p rog ra mme for Tupperware in Brakpan. The program me calls Ior substantial add itions and extensions to existing facilities with Grinaker Projects respon sible for design and construclion

plus the installation ol electrical and sp rin kle r systems. The undertaking includes a prod uction factory area of 3 360m2, a warehouse of 2 850m,, olfice block and gatehouse amounting to 1040m2 and a workshop of 250mr. The present con tract value is R3,1 million and the work should be completed by midOctober this year. Willie l\4c Gah a n is contracts manager with Rowan Griffin as site manager. Alan Bell looks

after the electrical side

the Grinaker team is plant director Colin Woodin. "Tu p pe rware has had very good growth internationally and locally," he says. "We're expandjng to relieve congestion in our present Iacilities. We're not just building for today but trying to loo k ahead. "The decision to qo ahead was

taken by our company heads in the United States, which illustrates faith in our product and South Africa. We're a quality company with a quality product so we chose Grinaker Projects to do the design and construction. We believe they can give us the quality of work we require."

and

Robert Horslield is the engjneering tech nician. Tu pperware's man dealing with

,,, Rowan Gritf in, Colin Woodin (Tupperware), Willie Mccahan and Alan Bell Gtinakat Gazelte )une 1943

deu r

Pieter Wagenaar

Junior eenheid wat met hol betonblokke gebou word

Gedurende die konstruksie van Mapetla hostel in Soweto het Grinaker Transvaal beslu it om voort te gaa n met meer hostelle in Swart woongebiede aan die Rand te bou. Dil sal aan die maatskappy

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'n groter omvang van beskikbare behuising verskaf. Onderhandelinge om'n stuk qrond te huur in die Swart woongebied Tokoza in Alberton het agtien maande gelede mel die Oos-Randse Ad m in istras ie raad begin. Gedurende Maart vanjaa r is'n huurooreenkoms onderteken deur die onderskeie partye waar Grinaker Transvaal 'n 100m by 100m stu k grond van die Adminis-

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Bekwame span by Tokoza. Agter: Pieter Wagenaat, John Molaoa, Ngodi Khumalo, George Porter, Reuben Ditsoane, Cassie McCormack. Voor: Edison Muofhe. Johannes Modika 16

trasieraad huur vir tien jaar met die opsie om dit te hernieu na h ierd ie tyd perk. Die hostel bestaan uit vyj junior en vier senior woonhede. Elke woonheid h u isves vier-en-lwin lig persone. ln die junior eenhede deel vier persone'n kamer terwyl in die senior eenhede twee 'n kamer deel. Elke eenheid het sy eie kombuis/eetvertrek, bad kamer en aparte stoorvertrek. Die gevlegde, gewapende betonvloere is 75mm dik met kantbalke van 150mm. Die mure word met hol betonblokke gebou en staal vensters en dure word gebruik. Die plafon word met veselglas geisoleer en die dak bestaan uit gegalvaniseerde IBR d akplate. Die mure word gepleister en dan geverf. Daar word ook'n staalstru ktuu r o pgerig wat as ontspanningsaal sal dien terwyl die washuis ook apart is.'n Parkeerarea word ook beplan terwyl die binneplein met gras beplant word. Die een hede is ten volle qeâ‚Źilektrifiseer en die hele kompleks is omhein deur'n 2,4m voo rafvervaa rd igde betonmuur. Die drje bekwame voormanne op terrein is Cassie McCormack, Barry Queen en George Porter. Daar word beplan om die kompleks teen die einde van Julie te voltooi. Gtinaket Gazette June 1943

the

Tileg

rin team

A 275m higjh chimney is being built at Escom's new 3 600lvlW Lethabo power station nea r Vereeniging. lt has a piled foundation, reinlo rced concrete outer windsh ield, structural steel floors and three brickwork flues. Structural design was carried out by our UK partner Tileman & Co. Ltd who have also supplied specialized rig equipment and personnel. Work lelt to be completed at this stage inc ludes the e rection of the roof and tloors, the stairs. b ric kwork, insu lation, installatio n oI lifts, electrics, lightning conductors and aircraft warning lig h ts.

The highly rllumrnated slrde rig

has become a permanent jeature

of the Vereeniging skyline

and

when the night shift slide engineers fired oII the emergencyflare, calling up the tea and scones, the local inhabitants reported sig htings of meteorites and Jalling sta rs.

Rod Sq u ier ou r vocifero us q ua lity assurance manager, has established an inf o rmal report-back

The chimney lor Escom's new power station at Lethabo inches upward to an eventual height of 275m

system, by means oJ his weekly contact with the radio announcer Robin Alexander on the all night radio station, Radio Orion. The deck crew get their instructions, req uest"s and lavou rite record in gs

At the top of the slide rig Grnaket Ga2ere June 1983

relayed to ther,t in the early hours of the morning. Robin now boasts of being the on ly rad io a n nou nce r who can handle as part of his

work schedule construction reports such as: the Iinal height of the stack is equal to twice the height of lhe Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg, there are 1300 steps in the staircase from top to bottom of the stack. the concrete used in the pile cap and windsh ield would cove r a footballf ie ld to the height of the goal-posts, the 800000 special brjcks to be used, il put end to end, would be 170km long and the reinlorcing used would produce 760 oneand-a-ha lf ton ne ve h ic les. Following the contribution in the Gazette on the piling we can now report that the circular pile cap, consistin g ot 2 400m3 of concrete, was pumped rn lwo lifts of 700m and 1500m3 using lour mobile concrete pumps during Novem6er 1982 and January 1983. The 17

rig with its sophisticated jacking and hoisting system is scheduled 'to top out by early June. Quality control items are under the control of senior quantitY control agent AndY Ackroyd, who with his team ol two qualitY con-

trol agents, lvlike BarclaY and

Ettore D'Agostino, have been producing check lists and non-

conlormance rePo rts which have kept the whole crew checking and re-checking their work. The batch plant, which also Ialls under quality control, boasts both a refrigeration plant (8000 litres per hour cooled to three degrees cenliqrade) for hot weather concreting and a hot water boiler for cold weather concreting. Concrete retardation control gives various rates of retardation from two to lilleen hours and the colou r-coded mixes, from oPerators Harry Ramokgopa, Johan nes Dipitsiand Thomas N4otau ng, d ispatched up the stack bY ground supervisors Albert NIab usela and Marks Babothatha. ensure that the slide engineers maintain Progress. All quantity surveying is carried out by Peter Hawkins. Twenty-four-hour laboratorY

control is in the hands of technicians lvan N/atyalane and Gabriel l\4th eb

Stoic general foreman Louis Le Pen has his hands full training people in how to use sophisticaled slide and heavy lilting

equipment, repairing win c hes and hoists, hosting various UK hyd rau lic, electrical and elec-

tronic experts (Kevin Coe, Brian Burroughs and Nigel Smith). He also acts as referee between Iisticuff parties at the security gates and keeps his UK/RSA team oI Brian Fitzsimmonds. Dave Harwood, Jonathan Bailey, Edd ie Da

ie, Andy Hamilton, Les

Holden, Bill Evans, Dolf Oosthuizen and Arlindo Da Costa

inching ever upwards. Plant agent Jack Denz and mechanics Nols van der Bank and Jan Hattingh, together with long lists of emergency stand by person nel, face the lormidable task ol keepinq Tom Knight's equipment producing concrete on a round the clock cycle. Ad ministration and buying forthe non-stop operation is handled by newcomer to the site Gary Grant,

Diagram to illustrate the relative heights of Lethabo chimney and othe r build ings

lvlalan Gerber and Edward Nilaboza. Peter Kent

is site con-

tract manager and Jan Engelbrecht and Bod Blunden have maintained the U K/RSA/Escom Megawatt Park lin ks.

Members ol the Titegrin team. Back: Andy Hamilton, Jon Bailey, Nols van der Bank, Edward Maboza, Peter Kent, Atbert Mabuseta, Bod Squier, Nlgel Miller, Gary Grant. Front: Louis Le Pen, Dolt Oosthuizen, Bill Evans, Jack Denz. Shift staff not present: Dave Harwood, Nigel Smith, Eddie Davie, Les Holden, Andy Ackroyd, Jan

Hattingh, Brian Butroughs, Mike Barclay, Ettore D'Agostino 18

naket Gaz.ue June 1qqi

New

h ig

h school f or Richards Bay

by Dave Lee

The new Richards Bay

High

School contract was awarded to Grinaker Zululand at the end of January 1983. lt consists of the construction of seven con nected three storey classroom blocks,

each being approximately

metres long, a single storey administration bloc k, an assembly hall, a two storey woodwork and metalwork block, changerooms and caretaker's quarters. The

Construction at an early stage on this' new project architects for the project are the Natal Provincial Administration and the consulting engineers are Messrs Scott & De Waal. The overall value of the contract is R5.0 million and it is scheduled for completion in January 1985. Contracts manager for G rinaker is Gerrard Stott and I am site

agent, ably assisted

Mark

Sparg (plan n ing engineer), Eric Duminey (concrete foreman) and Hennie Scheepers (b uild ing foreman ). The chargehandsare Louis Scheepers, Frans [/arks, Doug Jooste and Johan Jooste.

The project is in its infancy at present and the luture looks encouraging. Progress with the work is on sched u le.

Richards Bay High School team. Back: Hennie Scheepers, Frans Marks, Doug Jooste, Philemon Chemane, Johan Jooste, Eric Duminey, Louls Scheepers, Tommy Marks, Mark Sparg. Front: Ephraim Ndaba, Gerrard Stott, Joseph Mhlongwane, Dave Lee, Tom Marks Gnnaket Gaze e June 1983

The Kokstad road widening contract by Doug Sowden

More than 50km of shoulder widening required

On 25 October 1982 Grinaker

Construction (Nata l) were awarded the Kokstad contract worth R2 538 000. Site establishmenl was only slarled early this year as plan ned. The contract consists of 50.1km of shoulder widening on boih sides of the road and the

Blasting time in the quatry

will then be sealed with a single chip and spray seal. One oJ the biggesr headaches on this contract is that the work has to be carried out under tralfic as no deviations are allowed d u ring co nstruction.

Operations for crusher run requirements of 30000m3 have been set up midway along the contract. The two stage crusher went up in record time

th an ks to a

great team under Tony Calhau trom Grinaker Plant, New

overlaying of 8,3km of the existing road with a 150mm layer of crusher run basecourse. The work is on provincial roads 416, 609 and 610, stretching from Staftords Post to Brooksnek on the existing N2 route to the Cape. The new and existing roadway

Simon Sikhosana, Vallengim dos Santos, Richard Ncayana 20

Plant team at Kokstad. Back: Victor France, Caleb Sithole, Cornelia Jali,

April Kheswa, Rooiland Dimaza, George Britz. Front: Ndoda Nondaba, Kistan Naidoo, Kim Mccleod, Marcus Mason '

enna*er Aaze

June lgig

Germany. On the Plant side the staff consist

of Ioreman George

B r itz,

mechanics Kista n Naidoo, Kim [/cCleod and Richard Ncayana and a welder Vallengim dos Santos. The plant agent lor Kokstad contract is Martin

-5-{ ..*

Muntuyedwa Zuma

Members of the Kokstad team. Back: Joe Jacobs, Joe Danks, Robert Monaheng, Jordaan Nyembe. Front: Samuel Phetla, Frans Murphy, Doug Sowden Venade.

On the construction side we have

Barry Willan as contracts

ma nager and myselt as sile

agent. General foreman on site is Joe

Luka Zondi, Bob Vidima, Wilson Fullman

Part of the crusher installation Gtinaket Aazete Juna 1983

Danks, assisted by his right-hand

man

l\,4 u ntuyedwa Zuma. Our rainage f oreman is Jose Simoi. Koos van Schalkwyk is the surveyor on site and lhe costing is

Futuristic plant workshop

under the watchful eye of our student Marcus N,4ason. Site clerk on lhe contract is Caleb Sithole. Last but not least, I would like to mention Pret Oberholzer of Grrnaker North and Vaughan Mcconville of Grinaker Training who helped out in the interim period until Joe Danks was available to move on to site Jrom the Port Shepston e contract. 21

Two contracts described by Paul Turner

3 During 1982 Dave Frost, our managing director, was asked by Charles Fiddian-Green, chairman

of the

Rennies group,

lor

proposal lor a ski lilt type of hoist

to take golfers Irom the twelfth green up the hill to the thirteenth tee at the Wild Coast Holiday lnn. At th is time Dave Frosl was b usily engaged in bu ild ing up the frame-

work of the newly

Iormed Grinaker Engineering Management (GEN4) and in the midst of this a ski lift for golfers was tran kly not given priority. ings changed rapidly whenwe received a letter lrom Charles

Fiddian-Green on 4 January 1983, saying that a lift of some sort was a must. A couple of site visits later, with the help of photographs and measurements I had taken, a proposal was put together based on a railway having two running rails and a rack-and-pinion drive to haulthe car up the fifteen degree slope. The proposal and budget costs were submitted al a meetin g on 12 January. Our presentation included two water colour paintings prepared by Les Durston, giving an artist's impression oI the finished lift, showing the top and bottom land ings built ol natural stone to blend in with the

A view up the track to the top land ing of the hoist built lor gollers at the Wild Coast Holiday lnn

Derek Fuller looking after the earthworks and civils, and we starled our three metre wide filteen degree angled cut up the h

illside on 2 February. At the next

site visit this cut looked like a section oI swilchback we had hit three rock lormations along the 1

13 metre trackway. These had to

be drilled and blasted.

Thank

good ness for contingency sums. Wh ilst

the bases

the trac k and

station walls were being excavated and casl, the power supply was installed. The nearest electricity source was hall a kilometre away at a pumping station across the river, over the hill and round

At 3 p.m. the same day I received a

the other side ol the dam. Mechanical installation began on 7 March with the rails, rack and power collectors being ready to receive the travelling car on 21 March. The car is a level, open platform 3m x 2m covered with Astro turf, with stainless steel sides and meranti handrails and seating. lt is designed to carry four golfers with their equipment and caddies at a speed ol thirtysix metres per minute. Being essentially lor one-way traflic, the control circuil is arranged to be aulomatic, starting at the bottom station by a push button on the

phone call saying go ahead with the project. That must have been rapid decision-making at its best. A two-man team was tormed wilh myself as project manager and

bottom station. The completed lift was demon-

su rrou nd ings.

strated and handed over to the Holiday ln n's resident engineer and his technical staff one day early, on 28 March 1983.

car. Once the car has been. vacated at the top station it retu rns automatically to the

Then there was Umzimkulu Lime

Basically the brief here was lo take limestone rock, size minus 170mm, and reduce it via crushing and screening operations to a

number of sizes ranging from lo plus 300 microns. First, a primary crushing operation reduced the rock lrom minus 170mm to minus 50mm by means ol a prescalper and two jaw crushers. From here the minus 50mm malerial was led to one existing plant plus two new plants of our design and supply, where the material was further reduced in size using rotary impactors and screened out to the client's preferred sizes. The most difficult size required was a minus 400 micron size but with 2mm

ninety-five per cent to be retained on a 300 micron test screen. The whole operation was ot course very dusty and this we controlled using two large dust extraction filters with an automatic se lf-c lean in g operation, the collected particles being returned to the plant via rotary air locks. The working conditions for the erection of the plants were far Grnaket Gazelle JLne 19a3

of cool drink invoices

number

from good. We were required to strlp out the client's existing old plant, with the usual proviso that

everyth ing had to be ke pt work ing

right up to the last minute. With virtually no dust extraction on the old plant, the atmosphere was terrible and resulted in a large

our

rom site.

Crane installation was also

ll, with very poor access Jor to the interior of the building, necessitating many blind lifts with the boom through holes in the outside walls. if{ic

201 crane

Happily it all finally came together with successful comPletion in January 1983. lwas project manager on the contract, site engineer was Ph il Richardson

and John Wilkinson was

charqe ol electrics. The contract value was R1 .6 million.

Opening of De Aar sleeper factory Grinaker Precast's new slee pe r Iactory at De Aar which was described by Ken [,4cGregor in the l\4a rc

Gazette was officially

opened on 26 April. The ceremony was pe rlormed by group chairman Ola Grinaker. He unveiled a plaque which contained a frttrng inscflplion: "This lactory is the culmination of Mr Grinaker's personal involvement since the first concrete sleepers were manutactured by Grinaker in South Africa in 1957." Speakers were Ch ris Visser, Eugene Sadie and the chairman. Ch ris mentioned that Grinaker has produced eighteen million sleepers to date a nd th e c ha irman said: "We produce more sleepers per day (eig h't th ousand ) tha n a n y other conc rele sleeper manulactu rer in the world." Mike Bush and Peter Nuyten from head office were present. Apart from the speakers, Grinaker Precast's presence included Tony Taylor, John Siebert, Pat Green, John Havinga, Chris van den Heever. Arthur Giles and Ken McGregor. Precast's attractive trave llin g hostess, Emelia Gaspar from Brakpan, did a superb iob of

Gnnaker Gazette JLne 19A3

Group chairman Ola Grinaker inspects the gift he received at the opening. lt was a miniature sleeper made of gold. Seated are Eugene Sadie and Chrls Ylsser looking

ter the guests.

A tour of the

modern and immaculate R4,5 million lactory was Jollowed by an excellent lu nch at the De Aar Country Club

(wh ich incorporates De Aar's original farmhouse). ln a warm welcoming speech the mayor of De Aar. [,4r Sanus lmmelman, thanked the Grinaker group Jor esrablrshing the faclory rn his town. "l also want you to know," he said," that we enjoy having

opening

rties like this."

Precast's hostess Emella Gaspar

by Grant Wainwright

JThe completed court.

was built in only a week

putting down a concrete screed.

We at Precast were g iven

When Ellis Park rugby stadium was suggested as a venue for the Triu mph international women's ten n is tournament, G rinaker was

approached to undertake the iob of building a tennis court in the m iddle of the rugby f ield. The job was to be done in the incredibly short time of one week, in clud ing

piling and

concrete screed.

Organizers were Harry de Bruyn and Wouter de Villiers and our surveyor was J umbo Pretorius of G rinaker Concrele Constructio n. The job was a Grinaker in-house venture with SA Piled Foundations doing the piling, Grinaker Precast laying Stelcon ratts as the base ol the playing surface and Grinaker Concrete Constrq ction

Jive

hours' notice of the job. When we met Harry de Bruyn at the ground the piling had already started. This consisted of 200 micropiles. the top of each being 200-300m m below ground level so that the piles could remain ln place permanently. A spacer was put into the top of each pile and a scaffolding jack inserted upside-down into the spacer. The 200mm square bases of the 200 scalfolding jacks th us Jormed the base of the operation, with all the jacks being levelled throughout. SA Piled Foundatrons men involved in this job were Nico Maas, John Guy, Jerry O'Sullivan, Lourens van der L4erwe, Derek Shields and Peter Op't HoL

Then the Precast operation

started. Compriband pads were placed on top oI the jacks and Stelcon rafts. which are made of precast concrete 2m x 2m x 140mm, were p laced upsidedown on top of the pads. This gave us the base of the playing surlace. I was in charge of the Precast job, ably assisted by Norman Cass. lt took three days to complete, working long hours.

SA Piled Foundations did pilin g 24

the

ffi :1

Once we had linished, Tony

Wilcox and his team from Grinaker Concrete Construction took over. They lilled the ioints with sealer and river sand, placed

a layer of plastic sheeting over the

whole of the Stelcon base, and laid a concrete screed on top of the sheeting. Finally the playing surface, which was a rubber mat, was placed on top of the concrete screed and stuck down with a double-sided tape. American Billie-Jean King said when she saw the court being laid that it was fantasic and that this was the type of surface she liked to play on best. One ot the problems encou ntered on the job was that there was on ly

one entrance into the ground, which had to be shared by

everyone. An othe r was the necessity for bu ild ing an access road of Stelcon into the middle oI the field in order to avoid spoiling the grass. This had to be removed before the match and relaid before we could remove the

court. I should also like to menlion that Grinaker did not build the temporary seating for the match, and had no responsibility for it.

Grinaker Prccast laid Stelcon rafts as the base ot the coutt, as well as for

the access road Gtrnakqt Ga2ete June 1983

Large township contract at Richards Bay Grinaker Zululand is involved in a sizeable townsh ip contract fo r the

Richards Bay municipality. The value of the undertaking is approximately R6 million and the contract is divided into two sections: Meerensee to wnsh ip and Veld & Vlei township, both residential.

Approximately 12km of roads will be laid with pre-mix surfacing. There will be 24km of kerb and channelling, 415km of stormwater drains, roughly 50km of pipework and va rio us othe r items. Bac k -a c t o rs, c o m pa c to rs, graders and dozers are much in evidence with the new Liebherr equipment being tried out. The centre of much attention is a Kerbmasler Robot a utomatic kerb extruding machine with e lectron ic 'feelers'. lts perlormance is impressive but sometimes unpredictable. lt has been known to wander ofl into the bush leaving a perfect trail ol kerbing. Co

ract manager is

Rolf

Fagelu nd-Gjersoe and site agent is Keith Kuhn. Engineeris lvlervyn

Bosworth-Sm ilh while senior foreman on roads and earthworks

Twelve kilometres of roads have to be laid is Abie De Sa with Moses Mthetwa

as his right-hand man. Stan

Broude looks after survey and senior toreman on reticulation is Alf N/eyer with assistance from 'Shorty'Ngwenya. "We've had the usual trouble with the Richards Bay water table," says Rolf Fagelu nd-Gjersoe, "especially on the deeper sewer trenches. With some oI the

interim deadline dates we have been slightly behind and on others as much as sixty per cent ahead.

"Generally, everyone a

nd th ings

pub is

happy

re going well. The site

luxury asbestos ski-

cab in, very civilised. Not having a

site telephone yet makes things difJicult at times - and peacefulat times."

At the site of f ice. Back: Steve Jauncey, Alan Pottage, Owen Thain, Bilf Lewis, Hugh Fagelund- Giersoe, Dennis Preitt, Stan Brcude. Front: Shorty Ngwenya, Clive Walton, Tony Meyer. Andre Engelbrecht

Cl.aket Gaze

e June 1983

.a::

:!':: !;

-;''

., rT t.-n

. 1 -. ' -l . 'r .- ,

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I -:

::"{*r*tta

Keith Louw, Piet Joubert, Mervyn Bosworth-Smlth, Moses Mthetwa, Abie De Sa, Pieter de Jong, Alan Voight

Sophisticated site pub said to have a 'game park' atmosphere

Automatic kerb extruding machine

-5,

One of the new Liebherr bulldozers in action 26

Deep trenching water problems "

with attendant

ern"*et

Gazete June 1gs3

new yard, under Gerrard Stott and GeoII Charters - who also runs lhe X-block plant at BaY Stone Sales.

Widening of the Umzingazi Bridge was done by George

Other activities at Richards BaY include considerable Progress with Amalgamated Reinf o rc ing's

Hatling h and an imPressivetrans-

formation has taken Place on Dave Price's Suncrush site. The

massive new sugar mill at Felixton where Dave SPoo ne r leads the Grinaker team in a joint venture with l\,4urray & Roberts is

taking shape. lnteresting news involving civils and add itio nal

earlhworks of considerab le value will soon be coming from Mondi man Terry Eaton.

The new bottling plant for Suncrush is growing every day

Boad and bridge

ide

ing

Umzingazi

r -'A rtry

3& Amalgamated Reinforcing's new yard is taking shape G

naket Gazetto June 1983

George Hattingh and Terry Heine 27

A giant rises at Felixton. The new sugar mill for Huletts will probably be the biggest in Southern Africa. Civil

work is a joint venture between Grinaker Zululand and Murray & Roberts Natal

'nr,-::;

ti ri

Mick McManus Grnaket Ga2ette.lunc 1943

The site of the academic buildings for the new Witwatersrand Technikon in Doornlontein. SA Piled Foundations are busy with the Piling

Piling for Witwatersrand Technikon been completed. The site is in Doornfontein only a few blocks away f rom the Ellis Park Stadium. The contract consisted of just over

by Chris Long

900 piles capable o{ suPPorting some 1 26 000 ton nes and having a

total driven length oI Th ree d itle re nt types oJ

10,7km. iles were

installed: percussion bored piles

tor the lighter loads and driven d isplacement cast-in-situ piles lor the heavier load areas. The contract ran smoothly with

no major hold-ups and no stoppages due lo rain. The lack of rain made the site very dusty at times

but we were able to have all the piles installed six weeks ahead of schedule.

lan Carmichael looked after the bore piles and Francis Roberts the big bulb pile machines. The p

lant was kepi running by Aubrey

Litkie and Robbie Botha while Sam Tatubana kept the paper work up to date.

Alter putting in test piles just belore the Christmas shutdown last year, piling started in earnest on phase 1of the academic buildings jor the new Technikon

of the Witwatersrand. Phase

concerns the Iirst ol many of the academic buildinqs that will form the new campus of the Techni-

kon. The whole project

expected to be completed by the

end oJ this century. So far only two of the hostel buildings have G n.ket cazette JLne

1943

ln the heart of the concrete iungle. A view of the site lrom above 29

fi \.

t.l

../

,} t.7

3,,)

eli

SA Piled Foundations'team at the Technikon. Above on the rig: Joseph Senamolele, Tekano Mokoarane. Standing: Chris Long, Frcncis Roberts, Joseph Motsamai, Frans Sekhalo, Sam Tatubana, Mbozo Ndobongo, Gilbert Marutha, Velile Kebe, Ephraim Kunene, Mtunzi Waxa 30

Gnnaket Gazette Jrne 19A3

their own. But they have alreadY contributed to the unique Grinaker spirit which was intro-

duced and built

What will happen when Ola Grinaker, l\4ike Bush, Peter

Nuyten and Arthur Reynolds no longer play a front-line executive role in the group's affairs? Will things ever be the same again? The question has been asked a thousand times in G rinake r circles. The answer is that things

up by

the

previous leaders. There is little doubl lhat they will preserve it. What is thrs Grinaker sPirit? lt rs undoubtedly unique but to take it apart tor analysis would be difficult and perhaps imPertinent. Human

lation sh ips are co

m P

lex

cannot be exactly the same because management style is

things which cannot always be recirrced to nJts and bolts. lt is sufficient merely to mention one or two oJ the Grinaker spirit's

distinct lrom one another

and file more than

largely a projection of individual personality. Personalities are as as

fingerprints, and the new leaders are not mere carbon copies of the old ones. They are forceful men in their own rig ht. The aura created by Jack Saulez, Don Sherwood and others will be

Pictures trom Grinaker

Sandile dam spillway

more obvio us components. There is among the G rina ke r rank

mere discipline. There is a genuine affection for the leaders which is extremely ra re in a cold and co m petitive b usiness world. The leaders on their part treat subordinates with respect and

Cape/Ciskei

consideration. This

what

separates the men from the boYS in the leadership stakes. AnY man

can be nice to his boss. But he who treats those of inferior rank with respect stands out like a giant above ru n -of-th e- m ill leaders in commerce and industry. There are of course many facets to the Grinaker spirit and its unique two-way loyally. But this one characteristic alo ne serves to establish the calibre of the tradition which the old leaders have lef t in our care.

The Gazette's role in

these record events. Yet we have another duty. It is to wish good Jortune to the

matters

primarily

retiring leaders and

offer

sup'port to the new ones on beha lf oI all those Gazette readers who are unable to do so in Pe rson. MS

sent in bv lan Friend

note btidge over crest at top

Bisho shopping Bac k: Helio Claasen. Front: lhodi, Mzimbity

complex team.

Branco, Paul Nimrod Moat-

Klaas, Medoda

Mpushe

rry,,

:"?:** Sandile: Cat 769 on rock toe. Embankment extends up to the right Atinaket Gazelte Jum 1933

Sandile: Hemmington Cembi and his team JI

Bay Stone and MAWU in accord Compiled by Theo Hef f er in con junction with the shop slewards and representatives of the Metal and Allied Workers Union

often be in conJlict, and that pro-

cedures for dealing with the contlict must recognize the existence and legitimacy of both parties in the relationship, and provide mechanisms Ior the resolution of such conflict by the two parties to their mutual satisfaction.'

recognition agreement was recently signed by Bay Stone Sales and the l/etal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU). The signing of the agreement is the culmination of several months of negotiation between Bay Stone Sales management and otf icials and shop stewards of the union. Iirst recog n ition ag reement which any company in the Richards Bay area has entered into with N,4AWU under the cou|try's new Iabou r dispensation. Discussions have been constructive throughout and a Joundation has been laid lor the future regulation oJ management/worker relationships through a process of negotiation, involving the freely chosen representatives of bolh parties, rather than unilateral coercion or a paternalistic stylq. Th is is the

MAWU recognizes that Bay Stone

Ies management have the responsibility to their sh a reholders tor conductjng a sound business operation and making an acceptable profit, but Bay Stone Sales in turn have agreed that 'the Union has the right to Sa

conducl its own alfairs

accordance with its constitution and polrcies and that the Union is responsible to its members tor protecting and promoting their interests'. Final agreement was reached on 22 March 1983. The formal docu-

ments were signed by Toeks Botha and Ms Junerose Nala, branch secretary of N/AWU in Northern Natal. The proced u res ag reed

ced u re,

a d isciplinary progrievance procedure, re-

include

dundancy and retrenchment policy and procedure, and a dispute and work stoppaqe proced

re.

The G rin aker group hasaf ifty per cent interest in Bay Stone Sales (Pty) Ltd, the remaining shares being jointly held by Nlurray and Roberls and Duiker lnvestments. Bay Stone's board of directors have adopted the Grinaker code ol employment practice which endorses the princip le of treedo m of assocjation. Several compan-

ies in the Grinaker group

are

having dealings with a number of

emergent unions around the country but this is the first formal recogn

ition agreement

within the

g ro

sig ned

up.

"i/AWU sees this as an important breakthrough in the area in which jt has been actively organizing for some time," says Ms Junerose Nala, N4AWU branch secretary. ln

keeping with its policy, MAWU will provide training for shop stewards at Bay Stone Sales and in terms of the aqreement

workers will be granted paid leave by the company for s uch train ing.

,lrr:4.

The management of Bay Stone Sales believes that true collective

bargaining between independent parlies provides the only viable alternative to the unilateral de-

ing style which has characterized South Alrican cisio n-mak

managem ent/wo rker relations in

the past. "The majorlty of our

workers have chosen MAWU to represent them," says Bay Stone managing director Toeks Botha, "and we will therefore negotiate procedures and cond itions of employment with them in future."

ln the recognition and procedural agreement signed by N/AWU and Bay Stone Sales the parties

'recognize that the interests of management and workers may

Signing ol agreement between Bay Stone Sales (pty) Limited and the Metal and Allied Workers Union. Standing: Albett Khanyile, Johannes Zikhali, Allrcd Mkhize, Ted Todd, Jaconia Manyoni, Titus Mazibuko, Theo Heffer. Sitting: Enock Nkwanyana (MAWU), Junerose Nala (MAWU), Toeks Botha Cnnaket Cazete JLne 19a3

Contracts

The R35,6 million railway sleeper contract for two million sleepers over lhree years continues. John

ata

Also special BY sleepers for coal line project, Ken l\4cG reg or.

Havinga and Chris van den Heever.

lance

Precast Transvaal's most prestigious paving contract to date, Old lvlutual's Industrial Park at City Deep, 19000m: of multicolour 80mm G-Blok paving and

of kerb and channel, R330000. Billy l\,4ackay on site.

5.5km

rinaker Norlh

Rosslyn Brewery, phase

one,

completion NIay 1983, phase two, proceeding well, John Turton, Rob SelJe, Jan Pienaar, Joe Earl Spurr, lvlike Slabbert, Abe Raith, Tiny Bosch, R24 million. Pretoria East, water pu rilication

plant, completion June

1983,

John Turton, Rob Selfe, Benny van Heerden. R5 million.

Ngodwana, Sappi, gridiron tile chests, proceeding well, completion end of 1983, Danny Denyssen, Ken Vo rwerk, At Bouwer, Leon Bessenger, R1,5 m

rinaker Precast

illio n.

nt Steel, paving contract, 15000m2 oJ 40 MPA 80mm GBloks including 150mm crusher run base-course, R0,3 million, Chris van Wyk. Alex Carriers depot at Alrode, '14 000m2 o1 G-Blok, 1 200m: of p rem ix and abo ut 1km of kerb ing, R175 000, Billy Nilackay. Komani Hospital by Grinaker PreTride

cast, Virginia, supply and 11

Coleman, R250 000.

Anglo Alpha cement factory, Ulco, supply of 12000 siding lee pe

rs,

Komati River bridge for South Af rican Transport Services, in-

cremental

Grinaker

nch ing, completion

February 1984, Jan Hattingh,

Ronnie Kelbrick, Arlindo

Costa, Rl,5 million.

New olfice block for Grinaker North at Waltloo, Pretoria, completion March 1984, R1,6

Techtonics (Pty) Lld

jllion.

design

proiects Bu lb pile rig for SA Piled Fou nda-

tions including models, Tony Bowen.

Tupperware warehouse and office b lock tor G rin ake r Projects, Jurqen Denzin. New office block for Grinaker North at Waltloo, Pretoria, structures and electrica I, Ton y Bowen, Avram Pelu n sky. De Aar abattoir, concrete work, Dave Watson, Heinz KauJmann, Des Heyl. Structural steel design and sh op detailinq, And rew Starr, Jacq ues Wiggill. Kimberley Engineering Works, structural steel design and shop detailing, Andrew Starr, Jacq ues Wiggill. Shop detailing (lon g term agreement), Bill Cam pbell. Grnaket Gazette June 1943

lay

000m: of G-Blok, Digby

Ren

ier

Eksteen,

R300 000.

ry, supply

oI Structura range)

l\4ason

Flutex (part of blocks for Alberton lndustrial Park, four warehouses and one office bloc k, R130000, Jimmy Catsavis.

Grinaker Natal Umzinto River mass gravity dam for Umzinto Reqional Water Supply Corporation, Tom Bassett, Alan Dawson, R2,1 million. Roads PR609, 610 and 416 from Ngeli to Kokstad and Brooksnek, repairin g of failu res and resealing oJ road surface, Doug Sowden, Barry Willan, R2,5 m illion. Standard Bank administration centre at Westville, John Lucas, Alan Dawson, R6,4 million.

Camps Drift industrial estate, phase one, services and earthworks for P ietermaritzb u rg City

Council, Doug Botha, R5,7 millio n.

Phoenix lndustrial

rk. services

contracl. Grno Parmeggiani.

Deryck White. R 1.9 millio'r. for completion November 1 983.

Grinaker Zululand Felixton sugar mill, civil work in progress, shared with l\4urray & Roberts, Frank Tennent, F5 million. Suncrush bottling plant, civiland building work in progress. Fioberto Buson, Dave Price, R4 m illion. Veldenvlei, servrces contract in progress, Rolf Fag elu nd-Gjersoe, Keith Kuhn, R5,6 million. Msingazi Bridge, widening of bridge almost complete, Gerrard Stott, Dave Lee, R0,2 million. Mond, paper rirl. civil work in progress, Roberto Buson, Peter De Lacy, Terry Eaton, R12 millio n.

Richards Bay High School, building ,work in progress, Gerrard Stott, Dave Lee, R5 million.

Amalgamated Reinf orcin g's new oflices, building work in proq ress, Gerrard Stott, Geoff Charters, R0,2 million. Mondi. earthwor ks extension ir progress, Dave Maree, Ted Fountain, R2 million. rinaker Concrele Construction University of Boph uthatswana, buiiding work in progress, Lou GlucKman. John N/cLaughlrn. Don Brown. Residence p roject, Jurgen KLilper, Pieter van Staden, Hennie Britz. Central lecture block, John N,4cCormick, Gerry McKelvie, Man uel Franco, George Nobrega, Alan Peel, Ray G

Lockha rt.

Lethabo power statio n chimneys

joint venture with Tilegrin, civil work in progress, Jan Engelbrecht, Peter Kent, Bill Evans, Dolf Oosthuizen, Louis Le Pen, John [.4cCrickard. Dave Harwood, Jonathan Bailey, Nigel South, Barney Rafferty. U lco cement factory joint ven tu re with Concor, civil work in progress, Howard Jones, Dave King, Johnny Zaremba. Grinaker Cape/Ciskei Bu sh man's Krantz Dam, completion June 1983, Graham Browne, Brian Boyd, R6 million. Sand ile Dam, started January 1981 f or completion November 1983, Graham Browne, Graham 33

Watermeyer,

9,2 million.

Zwelitsha sewage works, started December 1982 lor completion April 1984, Tex Dallas, LarrY van den Heuvel, R2,8 million. Bish o pipeline, started December 1982 lor completion SePtember 1983, Charlie Backlund, Bernd Wortmann, R1,1 million. Bisho sh opping complex, started February 1983 for completion July 1983, lan Friend, Ted Healy, R1 ,5 million. Kaytee lnvestments sh oP/wa rehouse, started January 1983 for completion September 1983, lan Friend. Neil Backlund, R0,7 millio n.

Brrflalo Timbers wareh

use, star-

ted November 1982 f or comPletion N/ay 1983, Ted Healy, Nlike Nicolay, R0,8 million. Consolldated Textiles, site levelling, started January 1983 for completion tvlay 1983, Charlie Backlund, Peter Fraser, R0,75 m illion. BuIIalo Flats'townshiP, started N4ay 1983 for completion lvlay

1984. Charlie Backlund, Peter Fraser, R4,2 million. Bush man's Krantz bridges, star-

N,4ay 1983 for completion Decem ber 1983. Graham Browne, Brian Boyd, 80,75 mil-

ted lion.

crinaker zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd lwhich ts a subsidiaty of Far Eastern Zimbabwe Holdings Ltd and is managed by Grinaket) Harare Holiday ln n, structural f rame, com pletion November 1983, John Sheffield, Harry Kingsland, Guy French, Doug

Grinaker Construction Transvaal Klool Mininq,50m deep in itial

shaft sinking, Gawie Espach, zulu Cornelius, Nick Oelofse, F0,5 million.

Escom Vaal, deepening

channel

to Grootvlei

ol inlet power

phouse, Arnold Klintstation worth, Bennie Ve rster, Salvadore pu m

carta, R0,25 million. Ulco crusher.250000 tonnes oI stone products for ConcorG rinaker consortium, Johan van Rooyen, Danie Gouws, Kingsley Williams.

Kloof earthworks, terracing ol new shaft for Klool gold mine, Rick John, Roy Wienand, R0,25 m illion. AECI, Sasolburg, pipework and mechanical installations. Dave Strachan, Tokk ie Bri11z, John Lamont, Peter Benn, R2,2 million. Mankwe. pipework and mechanical installation to( Iertilizer lactory, Dave Strachan, Richter Olivier, R200 000. Davsteel, Vanderbijlpark, con crete loundations etcetera for steel rolling mill extensions, Joe de Klerk, Pieter Wagenaar, Dave Chaplin,8900000. Sasol lll fertilizer factory, construction of services, roads, plant buildings and foundations, Pat Stewart, Luther Dann, Roy Jutzen, Steve Buyskes, Andre van Staden, Jan Steffens, Fanie van den Berg, Jens Holstein, Simon Papo, Charlie Wiid, Piet Coetzer, R5 million. Spartan Roads, roads and services for new Spartan township, Pat Stewart, Bernard Osterloh, Johan van Staden, Dirk Venter, Ron Laaper, R900 000.

Sau nde rs.

Grinaker Engineering Manage-

Wankie power station, stage one under way, stage two Uoinl venture with Roberts) started, excavations, coolin g water d ucts, chimney (154m h ig h), precipitator casings (36m high), ancillary works, 40000m3 concrete, nearly R30 million, Gordon Radloff , Gordon MacKay, Peter Leitner, Hugh Atkinson, Olli Oliviera, Bob MacMason, Marc Lo bb (Roberts).

ment (GEM) Umzimkulu Lime, crushing and screening Plants, comPleted January 1983, Ph il Richardson, Paul Turner, John Wilkinson, R1 .6 million. Golf hoist for Wild Coast Holiday In n, Transkei, design, civils, mechanicals, electricals and

Shabani and Mashava asbestos mines, operating, construction of underground crushing station, Hugh Atklnson.

R250 000.

commissioning, comPleted recently, Paul Turner, Derek Fuller,

Secunda demineralised water pla nt lor Sastech. civils. mechanicals, piping. electricals anC in-

stru me n t installation, Ste ve Baskays, Clive Sprenger, R2 millio n.

Grinaker Mining Grinaker lvlining is currently operating two mines in Northern Natal on a reduced scale due to the decrease in demand jor coal Iollowing the economic recession here and in Europe. During the last six months washing Plants have been established at both mines to enable us to produce a s u pe rior prod uct. This year we commenced underground mining at Nonsana which produces anthracile for the Far East and local consumPtion. The mine is managed by Arthur En rig ht and Derek Bosch. Steincoalspruit mine which Produces steam coal for the European cement industry and local

industry

managed

Ras

Currently we have a three year contract to supply anthracite to the Far East and a one year contract to supply 100000 tonnes oI anthracite to a European cement ind ustry. G

rinaker Prolects

A distribution

warehouse in Wadeville was recently completed under Willie McGahan, John Bramwell, Brian Thain and Keith Whitehead. Design is com-

plete and silework is

commence on a large abattoir rn

the Cape with Vincent Falck,

Gordon Darroll, Dudley Smart, Pat Riley and Bill lvlills. Another

Wadeville project for a marketing materials and advertising promo-

tions building has been completed u nder Vincent Falck, Herman Sc h utte and Rowan Du

nstan.

Large-scale extensions to a plastics mo u ld i''tg factory in Vulcania, Brakpan, are well advanced with Willie lvlccahan, Rowan G riflin, Alan Bell and N4alcolm Burnett. A sugar trans-

port

se rv

ices building

Noodsberg due for hand-over has Willie lvlccahan with Ray Cox and

Keith Whitehead. Factory in Alrode em ploy

extensions

Vincent Falck, Armund du Plessis and Henri Mittermeyer while a desig n and management programme jor a bank in Soweto uses Willie l\4cGahan, Allan J oh nson and Fritz N4uller. 1

Venter and Tim Swanepoel.

c nak*

GaTc

c,ttnc

19s3

Eye inju ries the most f requent

Three times in a row for

Exlract fram safely Management aflicial publtcattan ol the National Occupalianal

Salely Assoclat/or. March 1983

Grinaker Transvaal Flowan Burns records ln his March safety newsletter that while he was wriling il a lette' arrived f rom the National Occupationat SalelY Assoc:a(NOSA) wrtn the news lhal t 'on Gflnaker Conslruclio'l T ra ns-

A company was exPeriencing a larqe number oI injuries each month ard after a close aralYS S of the injurY Problem and the

body location of these injuries, it was found that seventy-five Per cent of all the injuries were eye

vaal had once again been awarded an Honour Better

Group statistics Fin anc ial Year ending June

-l

197 7

menl Plaque fo' tne Yea' 1982 hey recetved slmilar awards for 1980 and 1981. During the month reviewed in the newsletter there were no accrde'lls al all in either Personnel or Planl and vehicles Th is rs an o utsla nd ing ac

ieve-

ment. Rowan saYS, "!et us all strive to keep it this way "

1978 1979 1980 1981

1982

To date (March 1983)

ini,rfles and thal lnese iniuries were caJSed oY workers nol wearing eYe Protection wh ilst carrying out their duties An eye o rotect'o n Programme was im medratelv rntroduced into this

conpany. Tne result was

dramatic reduclio'l in Ihe numbe' of eve tniuries and will'ln a one monih perioo it was toLnd lhal nea'lv seventY Per cent ol lhe inturies had been e lim in a ted

Disabling lniu rY FrequencY Rate

P lant Acc ide nt Frequency Bate

22,3 12,4 11,9'

3,02 1

,62

11 ,7

1,53 0,59 o,73

8,2 8,7

2,00

3.1

,08

tndustrY as a whald is 14 7 Nole: Disabltng inlLlty ltequency rate t'or lhe construcltan

Looking back

..& at Slurry near Mafikeng 1957l8 Engineer was Extensions to cement works for Prctoria Portland Cement Erwin Bauer and site agent was Brian Fyal Gnnaket Gazette Jrne 198,

Staff briefs

Amadeu Nunes

Amadeu Nunes is alert, likeable

and dynamic. He exudes an

infectious energy. He has risen right throuqh the ranks lo senior management level during ne'a rly

twenty-elght years with g ro

the

up.

He was born in Portugal in 1932 and went out to Mozambique as a you ng boy. " ln Lo u rengo

lvlarques (now lvlaputo) I went to technical school," he says, "there was nothing else, and lserved my time as a diesei mechanic with Mozambique Railways." He joined the Grinaker group in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in 1955 under George Castle and Jack Manson-Sm ith. "Then I was transferred to Malawi. Derek Clitf. 'Van' van der Walt. Dave lvlarais, Lou Gluckman and Joe Bierman were there. I was the mechanic." He was brought down to South Ajrica in 1966 to become plant workshops f oreman in Durban. "We had the Shell Refinery and Sugar Terminal contracts under Jh

Peter Nuyten and 'Van' van der Walt," he says, "and we began to establish a base workshop and offlces at Henwood Road in New Germany. Grinaker Plant as we know it today began to form. George Castle, Jack Saulez and Emil Gebhardt ran the operation in the Transvaal and I kept things going in Durban." He still 'keeps things going'but now as managing director of Grinaker Plant (Coastal) and also serves on the board of Grinaker Construction (Coastal). "l've seen the company grow," he says, "and one can't compare the old equipment with the modern machines of today. But one bastc principle still applies: one has to develop the right people to maintain the plant. Good maintenance and accurate costing are still the keys to a successful plant operation. "We have a sophisticated tra in ing programme and I'm a great team man. I now have a group that I've been building up for seventeen years. Our future depends on good people and keeping up with the latest innovations and developments in our f ield. " Amadeu married his wife Gisa in 1955. They h ave fou r daug hters of whom two are married. "l jog every day," he says, "and maybe next year l'll try the Comrades. I've got a licence tor catching craytish and I p lay hockey for lun - just to be with the guys. But my big thing is karate. " He is a First Dan in karate and gives instruction in the art. "Karate is good lor concentration and discipline," he says, "and I think it helps one's ability to plan ahead. Do you agree with that?" When talking to a First Dan one always agrees.

{l' r.. Sue Pout was born in Kenya and joined Grinaker Natal in 1991 as a secretary /typist. "One of my hobbles ls basketball," she says modestly, but in fact she represented Natal for three years. ,'lt's on ly club-level basketball now." she says, "because training lor championships means f our nights a week." She also likes reading and cooking. and lptay bowls and entoy watchtng golt, she sa/s. sometime Iwoutd tike to try the game." She married Michael Pout in April this year. "We'll be setting up a home,,'she says, "and we've bought a piece of land as a lirst step."

Mzolisi Goodman 'Golden Voice' Diliza was educated at the Jongil-

izwe College for the Sons ol Chief s where he excelled in Bantu

law and custom. He worked in

various Transkei govern ment departments beforc starting with the Grinaker group as a site clerk on

the Umtata water purilication works proiect

1976. He is te latio n s officer lor Grinaker Cape Cisket.

currently

ind

ustrial

"l am by birth a chief of the Bomvana tribe," he says, "and as such am devoted to serving

humanity from the cradle to the grave.". He used to play rugby, Gnnaket Gazetle JLne 1983

tennis and Soccer and now, tn addition to stud(ing for a degree throuah IJnisa, is sPorls ofltcer lor iape Cisket He looks lorward to a grou7 rugbv tournaas the ment along the same /lnes -l soccet comPetilrcn. m inlo reggae. PoP and countrv mustc too. he says, and I eniov con' struction slles excePl that lm senslllve to cold and definitelY alle rgic to dust."

Eric Nichotl has a background in concrete design and ioined the oroup tn SePlembet last Year as Zn estimalor for Grinaher Pro/ects. He is married with two 'childten. and is an earnest badminton Pla{er. "l used to PlaY soccer," he saYs' "but now I coach chitdren in the Little Leaoue. We enjo{ ouldoor living hare a caravan - bul no "ri hiktnq. there must be wheels He

iois gardentng and woodwork and is a successlul ownerbuilder. "This hobbv is intermittent," he says, "because it deDends on the avatlabtlitv of

lunds. We ll be caravanning along the Garden Route in December and Imust do something about my yacht. I haven l had lime rc sail it since t slarted extensions to mY ho use."

crete hand. He later went in for canteen work and is currentlY tn Drovtding valuable assistance canteen slall the Etandsfontetn He is married, with lour children a,id is involved in church work

Grinaker Ndtai slx Years ago Her lnteresls are baking, reading, handicrafts and the occasional oame of bowls when she sklPS on

The n brinaker S1orts DaYs "last

the re's travel," she says,

I went to

year

lsrael, Rome and

London. I'd love to go back' and see some new countries too, like Greece and GermanY and of course there's the Far East These

mav onlv be dteams at mo'menl

the

bul lm savlng hard

Francisco Pires joined the grouP ln 1965 as a car7enter and was charoehand carPenler on lhe Sunc-rush slle for Grinaker Zululand when he retired on 31 MaY' "This was a big iob," he sars, "but lmade sure that the carqentrv would be tinished before lwas readv to relire lo Porlugal He is .ariied, *ith one daughter and

two grandchtldren He

PlaYs bowls and a llltle soccet and savs:

do woodwork and make lurntturc, plane and hammet is mY music. Mv Engllsh ls not so good but as a car/enter You don't have to talk to do Your iob We will trv to live in Portugal, we have a Plot near Anciao and we bought a flat in Lisbon. Ma|be we star' ma|be we come back. lt doesn't matter because we own a house here too." ..1

Gwen Kudutis is a T ransvaler who

s}ent a number ol Years on lhe lambian CoPPerbell and starled in the accounts de?artment at Gtnaket Gazeno Jrne 1g83

Theophelus Ndzungu started with the grouP in 1965 as a con-

lm a big soccer tMethodisl) 'lan. and ;ts KatTer says. he Chiets atl ihe ,aY l also like danclnQ - and favourtTe. When

lhe Wallz ]s

tgo on leave lo everY Year llook

the Transkei after mY callle and shee?

an.d

.sometrmes I PlaY lhe horses l wtn " on doubles and lose on iack?ots

Fave Blogg has been in

the

accounts dePartmenl of Grinaher Nalat for ten Years l was educated at Durban Girls High"'she savs. and then t dd a diPloma tn commerctal design al lhe Techntkon. I worked as a textile desig net

but had to abandon that and channel mY talents into the com' merctal world for economic

rreasons." She has three children

and her intellectual intercsts arc

painting. interiot dec or at tng musrc and reading l also love the beach and cam7ing and swtmmtnq, she sdYs The htghtiqhl of mY ltle was when I

t;avelled rc Engtand Ametica and Greece. Id like lo do thal again bd mv main ambition is to make

lots of moneY to unlock

potential."

Tonv Da glva slarled wilh thc oroip as a car7enter al Easl London in 1964. Al lhe time ol his retirement (31 MaY this Year) he was a loreman lor Grinaker Zulu37

land on the Suncrush contract.

came to South Af rica in 1966. He

He is married, with one ch ild, and

has had a varied and successlu/ construction career and joined Grinaker Cape in 1980. He was

is a leading member al the Em pangen i Cath ol ic co m mu n ity. "l love soccer," he says, "and I used to play but now lstick to bowls and fishing, river or surl. I and reading but it must be ramantic

alsa like playing cards

stulf." He will be retiring Portugal. "l own

place there," he

says, "a plot where lcan graw things and we'll see how it goes. I will be a stranger in my own country. lwant to look alter my vines, maybe if lmake enough wine my hair will qrow aqain."

later transferred to Grinaker Projects where he is currently contracts director. He is married and

enjoys squash, tennis, trout

fishing and bird watching. "l play chess, as we alldo at Proiects," he says, "we're the intellectual hub of lhe group. I also entoy music and can occasionally identif y Bach." He has an addiction to whal he calls genlle mounlatneering' and has been up Kilimanjaro twice. At the moment he is organizing a trip to the Hima layas. "We want to wander around in the foathills," he says, "and follaw tn rhe loolsleps ol the fenslngs but not all the way. We need some more people. Any local lunatics who are interested in 'doing the Himalayas' are welcome to phone me at Prolects. "

Willie Mngxekeza started with the g

roup as a section leaderat lxopo

1966. He is now with Grinaker Zululand as supervisor of pipelaying at the Veld & Vleicontract. He is married with no less than

live

ch ild re n

Ren ie

Eksteen ioined Grinaker

Precast in 1981 as a sales representative. His talents in salesmansh ip have earned him the position of sales and marketing manager tor Grinaker Precast, Virginia. He is married, with two sons, and says, "We are very much an outdoor family. We head for the hills whenever we can. " He played first team rugby at school: "But I'm too

injury prone now," he says, "lls sale/ ro be an Pnlhusiasltc spectator." He plays social bridge and was a successful motor rallyist tor three years. "l also did oval track racing in saloon cars," he says. "/t was crazy and my car was written off twice. but I loved

of whom f our are still

al schooi. "l like cars and fixing

them," he says, "and my problem

is to garage them.' On site

rides a motorbike with the easy grace of an experienced cowboy in rhe saddle. He entoys music and reading and is a soccer fanatic. This year he was manager of the Zululand team which took part in the group competition. When asked whether Zululand will do better in next year's tournament he says: "No, we won t just do belle r. we ll iusl win. that's all. "

Terry Walton qualified as a civil engineer in Southampton and 3B

Judy Haig originally comes from Zambta. She as educated in

Zimbabwe and then came to Natal where she did a legal and secretarial course. She ioined the Grinaker group with Techtonics in 1980 at Bedfordview, then went

back to Durban when

her

husband was transferred and

loined Grinaker Natal as a secretary. She patiently looks after Bean Bornheimer, Alan Dawson and others. "l enjoy reading and cooking," she says, "and I love mustc. lused lo play lhe l:ano up to grade six. I'm into light ci asslcs, nol heavy underground. I seem to spend a lot of time with the bottle, that is handing water battles to my husband, Alan, who is a marathon ru nner. Now I'llalso have to f ind time for b uild ing up a garden at the new house we've bought."

Leo Schrieder was born

in lndonesia and spenl ltlree year in a Japanese concentration camp

during World War ll. Later he qualified in building science at the Higher Technical College at The Hague in Holland. "l came to South Africa in 1966 and a yeat later married the South African girl I had met in Holland," he says. They now have three children. He joined Grinaker Projects in 1979 and is currcntly project developmenl d t rec lot tesponstble fol marketing and incoming new work. He has played international water polo for Holland and has reGnnaket Gazette Juhe 1933

presented Wits and Transvaal. "l've retired lrom that now," he

says. "and I play league tennis but not squash, it gives me claustrophobia." His talents extend to playing competition bridge and tourn ame nt- level chess. He has also earned the rcputation of being a master in the art of laying paving. "But don't say anything about that, " he says, "l don't want a reaction from Grinaker precas1. "

'Cats' makes history

'Cats' N/esesane Zoto received a civil tech n ician's diploma f rom the Pietersburg Technikon and then joined the group at Umtata in 1976. He soon decided to further his educa-

tion and made history in becoming the first Black

Grinaker bursar. He did first m oved to the University ot Cape Town year at Fort Ha re then

and

ualif ied as a civil eng ineer

last year. He is curren

Eva Westermeyer joined

the accounts department ol Grinake r

Natal in 1971. She has lwc) children, a daughter who is a medical technologist (and a guitar player) and a son who specializes in telecommunica_ tions and electronics. She enjoys

cooking, sewing, knitting,

c rochet and reading.,,ln between tnvotces, accounts and house_ work. she says. Ido some parttime cooking lo! lhe canleen. I

also sing in the church choir and I love music, particularly piano and

in squash and rugby," he says,

"and l'm a keen follower of world tennis. l'm an enthusiastic traveller and a music lover and l'll work anywhere lor Grinaker but I guess l,ll be

happiest near the sea." So far, 'Ca ts' has remained an eminently eligible bachelor but hot news from East London has it that this situation could be cha ng ing.

organ music. lhave an organ installed in my flat. Sometlmes my daughter joins me in aduet on her guitar. We're gradually managing to civilize the neioh_ bours."

Well known Jock

Ritch ie passed away in March this year at the age of seventy-three. He joined the group in 1960 and played a major rote ln the

development

Grinaker

Precast. In recent years he became known as an outstanding

organize(

of group

Are you part of the

backbone?

OBITUARY

It is generally known thai the backbone of the Gnnakeror ganizalion is made up of Mantzburg College Otd Boys. in order to determine ihe strenglh of this backbone it would be appreciated rf ai Old Collegians would supply

detarls

ot therr I\,4ar tzbLrrg

golling

a unique gift for entertaining people and events with

making friends. Many people willjoin us in extending sincere condolences to his wile Babs, his three children and their

families.

Gdnat\tt cazefie June 1SA)

running the Grinaker Cape/ Ciskei computer in the East London office. "l'm inte rested

Send informalion to:

Ernie Vels P O Box 31504, Braamfontein 2017

Peggy

ri naker, daug hter-i n

of the founder

-law

chairman,

daughter of the second chairman and wile ol the present chairman

Story by En

id G uise

On Friday March 25, Mrs pegqy Grinaker hosted a delightful farewell luncheon at her home 'Grindal'. Guests were d irectors, wives and staff from Grinaker

Holdings. Alter drinks on the verandah, everyone enioyed a delicrous lunch prepared by l\ilrs Grinaker. During the lunc heon she was presented with farewell

gilts from the ladies. ln her speech ol thanks, she briefly sketched the hlstory of the

G rina ker g roup lrom smallbegrnnrngs to the larqe orqanizalion it is today.

Present at the luncheon were: Joan Bush, Sue Nuyten, Sue Sherwood, Shirley Reyn o ld s, Jane Saulez, Lyn Johnston, Mary-Jane de Villie rs, Margaret lvlitchell, Claire Gebhardt, Sue Coertse, Heather Davies, pat Doig, Witma E iott, Enid cuise. Cheryl Holt. Pat Monlgomery. Lucy Rundell and Linda Thomas.

For better, for worse behind every successlul construction man

by Sue Walton

hours were 8

5, six (yes, six)

days a week tor the handsome re-

muneration

R120 per month.

The late Larry Attwell was in charge o{ our typing pool and actually interviewed me lor the job. Grinaker were sub-contrac-

ln a state of mild inebriation at this year's (or was it last year's) Christmas party, I let myself in for writing my impressions of marriage with a contracts engineer. What an assignment. The impressions are many, varied and

far reaching. I have been lransformed jrom a budding broadcaster to an abject slave to concrete and steel. lt's delinitely insidious. It all slarted in London when this

charming gentleman turned up on my doorstep and asked me to

accom pany him to the 'local' f or a beer. ln company with some of his more decadent friends, I downed a pint faster than he could down a hall and he was hooked. l've been trying to live up to that first im-

pression ever since. South

African beer is very qassy. What I did not know till it was too late was that lwas lo be prised away Jrom the BBC and transported nearly 10000 kilometres away to South Alrica ('where?'I said). I was issued with a characteristic engineering type ultimatum: 'either you can marry me and come to South Af rica or remain a spinster and stay in England.' lt was the spinster bit that did it. So here we are - and there we were. Our tirst stop on the long hot trail was Phalaborwa. Terry was site engineer build ing extensions to Foskor's mill building and I well all the work I could get, being a un iling ual im m ig rant, was a copy typing job with 40

tors and Dave Marais was a name that kept cropping up in the correspo ndence. Terry spent a lot o1 time with N,4urray & Floberts and Anglo American and is now well and truly with Grinaker. At one time he was in charge oI building a bridge over the Selati River (usually only a dry river bed) to replace the existing low causeway which was impassable when the river decided to function

(usuaily about once a year).

remember two com puter consultants from London were staying at the Phalaborwa Motel outside the town and the river came down with a vengeance and they had to charter an aircraft to fly the e ig hteen kilometres to Phala-

borwa Mining Company.

couldn't help chuckling at the mental picture of the faces ol head olfice personnel in London

when faced with the expense account: 'one aircralt to get to work

. . .'

Phalaborwa was undoubtedly a revelation to a 'so ph isticated Lond on sec retary bird'('sophisticated?' I hear you ask). Farmers shooting lions which mauled their cattle, elephants on the golf course, sometimes even

pinching goll balls,

ight to stress illu m inated only by the car's headlamps, because the river was th reaten ing to appear in flood. They both said they heard heavy breathing in the bushes and saw spoor but we put it down to a bid for sympathy. in the

Bechtel-WKE who were building the electrolytic refinery for Phalaborwa Mining Company. My

season

ticket to the Kruger Park, Sunday lunches at Olifants camp with impala steaks on the menu, temperatures of 118"F in the shade (and yours truly straight out from UK November weather), tennis by f lood lig ht as it was too hot to play

during the day, frangipani.

bougainvillea, pawpaws, lime juice by the bucketful the list is endless. I remember Terry and the consultants'resident e ng ineer turning out to the bridge site

idd le of the

beams by

hand-pump

Another memorable event was

when Terry and his doughty German foreman were nearly lynched by the mob at the bridge

site when the wages Iailed to arrive from Johannesburg in time Jor Christmas. Some quick talking on the part of the foreman saved the day and their scalps. And then there was the farewell

breaklast at the motel for a chargehand not one of our prouder moments. It was a sad day in February 1968 when we were faced with transfer to Johannesburg where Terry was to be a site engineer on the

Carlton Centre project. Pha laborwa was the best possible

introduction to South Alrica for a city g irl Jrom Europe as there was nothing to compare it was all new. Terry, having been brought up in Kenya, had been in his element. However, the Carlton Centre was also a truly memorable experience in every sense. became really involved. The office block slide was Terry's baby and I could olten be found on the public viewinq platform casting my experienced eye over the progress. They never took my advice however. On concrete days they poured.for a twelve hour stint and allowing for stoppages, setting up and other sundry problems this meant a I

long day. Many is the time

those days of one car, that ldrove

Terry to work at 4.30 a.m. and

collected him at 11 p.m. the same day. O rgan izing concrete de liveries in the city traffic was another headache. I remember the excavation under N,4ain Street to linkthe OK Bazaars complex lsat with bated breath the day they broke through waiting for the newsreader's account oJ the collapse oJ Main Street, courtesy of the Carlton Centre. Another q uaint Gnnaket Ga2ene June

1s!a3

the Magimix for a concrete mixer and take a course rn b rick laY ing tnal s whal s r'reanl by conslructive planning. (Forgive the PUn.)

happening was that the local rats rose into the sky atop the slide. Our dinner party conversation was scintillating Carlton Centre, Carlton Centre and more Carlton Centre. After the Carlton Centre slide

reached f iJtee n floors, Terry found the repetition m on otono us and the th oug ht of an other th irtyfive floors was too much. Then followed ten idyllic years in Cape Town which brought more high rise bu ild ing s. Gardens sho ppin g centre and Baxter Hall to name two then a change of company and fo u r fascinating yea rs as con struction manager on the l\4arina da Gama where we were initiated into the mysteries of dredging and horticulture amongst other things. Now we are back in Johannesburg and seeing the concrete and g

lass

rest n ow it seems

mazin g

to think that we were part ol the high rise pioneering days. We saw

the building of the

Carlton Centre, H illbrow Tower, Trust Bank and Standard Bank (how I

loved that circular crane) and

now it's hard to imagine that they

were ever not there. I feel jn a very small way responsible because if I hadn't driven him to work at 4.30 a. m.

Grinaker and turnkey p rojects seems a natural cu lm inatio n of all

this experience. And then there's the Mercedes motor car - it seems we have arrived. The sweat and toil have paid oJJ. ln addrtron to the career. there ts also the domestic aspect of life with an engineer. No house one buys will ever dare to fall down. lt doesn't matter what it looks like so long as it won't fall down. ln Hout Bay I was assured that the house lfancied would shortly be buried beneath a sand dune. Ten years later it's stillthere. We never call the man in for domestic mec h an ical crises. The engineer takes over with wife as plu m be r's/

electrician's/carpenter's mate. We make a good team and are now intimately acquainted with the workings of most of our appliances. Positive thinking and strict log ic are the keys to success in the matrimony stakes 'l don't know what you do all day you should really organize your time more prod uctively.' Ive recently decided to trade in GLnaket 6a2etta JLne 1943

A look at our electronics 'by

marketing Tienie Steyn

managing director of G ri naker Electron ic H old i ngs Taken lrom lhâ‚Ź March 1983 issue ot

Grinel Communicalor

I have always lelt that our electronics group is too narrowly

countermeasure equiPment)

gives all the indications oI grea't promise, the EPABX, a 1u lly electronrc teleph one exchange. is c u rrently u nderg oing acceptance tests and we are working on several classilred non-communication s p rojects. As Jar as the third option is concerned, Pegasus, an electro n ic security system, is already a suc-

cesslul product and Sarie

control system for South African Transport Services) will soon be in tull scale production. ln addilio n we are a lread y prod ucing fair numbers of computer modemsharing devices (lvlDS) for Grinel Data Systems.

specialized and therefore all the

more subject to the ups and downs of government spend ing. This is not to say that we want to do less for our major customer; on the contrary, we want to do more jor him. What we d on't want is to be an embarrassment to him in bad times. There are three major ways in which we can diversify our aclivities: Firstly, we can use our considerable strength in military communications to develop an export market for our products. Secondly, we can expand our military activities to encom Pass more than just comm unications. Thirdly, we can use our expertise to diversif y into the market for industrial and maybe even consumer electro n ics. Let us have a look at the progress we have made in each ol these a

reas:

The opening of our London ofJice

by Willie van Lochem is a major step forward in our export drive. Willie is not only able to counsel our representatives more easily fro m that vantage point but is also

better able to keep us in touch with developments on the technological front. As many of you are aware, we very recently sold at licence to manufacture two of our non-military products to two different European countries. The orders for hardware are trickling in very slowly in the lace of tremendous political opposition but the tempo is speeding up. The second option is also well under way. RIN/S (electron ic

The case of the roadside salesman by Michael Sandrock

On a clear Friday morning lleft Maritzburg by car to cross the Transkei frontier and visit Doug Sowden's site at Kokstad Jor the Gazette. I was equipped with the usual packet of sandwiches, brace of bananas. bandolier of ballpoint pens and camera. "Look out for the crusher on the leit of the road," Doug Botha oJ the Camps Drift site had said the night before, "even you couldn't miss it." Sure enough the crusher appeared and just then someone ran into the road waving a sign of some sort. lt must be difticult to make a living as a roadside salesman in this part ot the world I thought as my car brushed his clothes on its way past. At the c rusher the re was a strang e

atmosphere. No work, no mac h ines in the q ua rry, complete silence. A dozer was parked well away from the work area under a tree. The sig n of a com passio nate

operato r. The n, very slowly, like a televisio n

replay, the truth dawned. They were going to blast. The Avis car covered the standing kilometre back lo the roadside salesman in a b lue haze and four seconds flat. This time I read his sign. lt said:

"Stopl Blasting in Prog ress. " Fortunately I was able to photograph the blast from a vantage point. Then, at tea in the site oJjice, someone said: "Did you see that nitwit drive right past our guy with the sig n and blunder into the quarry? lf we hadn't seen him from the hilland stopped the blast he'd have been blown to bits. There's always one ol them, isn't there?" I began talking about the weathe r.

R10 crossword No 17 Please send entries to: 'Crossword', PO Box 8042. Elandsfontein 1406

Concern for the financial re-

turn

Bicycle marathon rn progress

(8)

Organize an artist to appear in an irreg u lar series (7) ls it used to cancel a game of b rid ge? (6) Carry a little betting shop (4) A light to find the liq u or in the still of the night, perhaps (9) 13 Badly mar a limb (3) 14 The carrier is in yon cover (8) 18 A thousand to none, the teetotaller gets nought that's the saying (5) This town has an inclination for an ltalian dish (4) 21 Departed to port (4) 23'Fuss at a party? (3)

5 6

Solution to Crossword No 16

Many readers will remember Roy

Bennetts slory about the

brg

icycle ride in the Gazette oI June 1981. He described how he and Gerrard Stottfrom Grinaker Zulub

land, together with three friends

from Empangeni,

pedalled 1920km from Richards Bay to Cape Town. (Gerrard was injured in an accident and has since recovered completely). Richards Bay to Cape Town is more than far enough on a bi-

cycle. Yet, even as this article was going to press, Roy was busy

doing something lar bigger. He and Rex Henderson, a specialist surgeon from Empangeni who was on the Cape Town ride, are making a spectacular dash down United States. This pedal power supermarathon will take them all the way lrom top to bottom, Irom Seattle to San Diego. The scenic value of this ride should be considerable. However, a brief look at their proposed schedule reveals that this is no sightseeing jaunt at a leisurely pace. Some of the daily distances are prodigious. lt will be hard going day alter day with severe demands on physical end u rance. There is evidence that they planned the trip meticulously and were well trained for a tarmacmelting pe r,fo rmance. We will prevail on Roy to give us a lull account ol the journey for the next issue oI the Gazette.

the west coast of the

Across 1 Rang Keir 'for the name of the

company (8)

The lucky winner was John Roome of Grinel, PO Box 1463, Pretoria 0001

Return the glove for little Timothy (3) Apparition in Albu Ford is out o1 th is world (3) It goes round both ways (5) Sounds like a pair as well (3)

10 Semite goes left and then east

'11

to find farming land (6)

Before going and

Anglovaal golf day

beJore

coming back (3) '12 Clothing rage changes (4)

Gift vouchers all round

The Ang lovaal golf day took place

added

15 Prosecute Susan shortly (3) 16 ln short, it's Amanzimtoti (4) 17 The sailor returns for the deserter (3) 19 Have a look over the show? (5) 22 i.e. train is unmoving (7) 24 Changed colour and perished, we hear (4) What will they do when no more stars are out (1 1)

zest to the recent Grinaker Zululand sports day. Roy Bennett and Coral Kendal removed all oppositio n f rom the ten n is co u rts while

Down

Adlam. Alf Meyerwas

1 42

Attorney General inawildfury gets a parking place (6)

the bowls winners were

Peter

Kendal, Denise Rocher, Barry Barnard and Neeltjie Bezu iden -

at Royal Johannesburg on Monday I lvlay. ln a spirited contest the Anglovaal head off ice 'B' team

emerged as winners with

128

points.

Best Grinaker perfo rmance came f

rom the 'B'team, consisting

o'f

hout. The golf prize was taken home by

Ola Grinaker, Jack Saulez, Arthur Reynolds and Peter Lait. They scored 120 points. Close behind

whirlaway winner for playing the greatest number oI strokes.

McGahan.

Colleen Eaton and Richard a

on 118 was the Grinaker'A'team with Malcolm Wyndham, Alan Hector, Tony Hood and Willie t ernu*u, aazens

Juna 1gg3

Successful

rugby trip to the Cape by William Makhalane

The annual LTA/Grinaker g olf weekend took place at the Swazi Spa th is year on 12-15 N4ay. Com-

Halcat/ catamaran owners

*"'"t"t""1;$J quite a few catamaran t-\ sa ilo rs belonging to the Grinaker organization and it

could be an idea 10 form a Grinaker catamaran sa iling association. lt would be appreciated iI any catamaran owners (especially Halcat owners) would contact Ernie Vels at

rney.

We left on Thursday night l\,4a

rch and arrived at Tarkastad at

mid-day on Good Friday. The tournament was held the next day. On Friday we had a braai and some wines and beers and of

course a teast is not complete when you are at the Cape without 'u mqom

boti' also known

'hamba bekele'. On the field Grinaker Olympics scored a wjn in the A division by .18 beating Ta rkastad Tigers - 0. ln the B division the Olympics drew with Tarkastad Summer Floses. We had a nice trip back with lots of beers and sing ing in the bus the whole n ig ht. All the same we were back in lime lor work on Tuesday 5 April because Mathousand had said there should be no absentees.

peting for Grinaker were Bean Bornheimer, Co lin Fowles, Keith Kuhn, Terry. Eaton, Peter Lait, Tony Hood, Keith Daly, Rob Campbell, Hamish And e rson, Ken Leach, John McLaughlin, Willie lvlccahan, Malcolm Wyndham, Alan Hector, Rob Selfe and Larry Wittstock. The tournament consisted ol eig ht four-balls playing betterball stableford, and Grinaker won by seven points after an exciting contest. Winner o1 the longest drive on the seventh hole was Terry Eaton and Brian Young of LTA took the prize for nearest the pin on the 18th. Prizes were donated by Blackwood Hodge. The trophy, which has been on display in the pub at Elandslontein th is year, willbe kept by Natal until next year's to urnament. Th is golf match has laken place every year Ior the last six years, the Iirst lh ree tou rnaments having been won by LTA and the last three by Grinaker. Both sides are eagerly awaiting a need le contest next year. The Swazi Spa has proved a very popular venue and it is hoped that next year's golf will also take place in Swaziland.

to get us the lowest price for the jo

Hockey 1983 The Grinaker Olympics rug by team had an outing/trip to the Cape over the Easter weekend. We thank Mathousand (Roger Dawson) and management for sponsoring the trip and Charl Botes for using his knowledge of transport people and their prices

The 1983 Grinaker hockey

tournament will take place in Durban on Saturday 13 August.

Rob Campbell and Graham Sanders are the organizers and details will be available in due co

rse.

Stop press: Comrades results 1983 Position

.Adolph Cele (Plant Coastal) .lvlervyn Bosworth-Smith (Zululand)

Des Wearne (Cape) Malcolm Wyndham (Projects) John Sangster (North) John Livingston (Grinel) Keith Kuhn (Zululand) Dirk Bornebusch (Holdings) Bean Bornheimer (Natal) Charlie Backlund (Cape) Pete Theunissen (Cape) John Turton (North) Ray Rausch (Grinel) steve schalit (Naral) Denis Brown (Natal)

Time

hours mins secs

277 355 838 1202 1354 15.13 1578 1926 1967 2447 2490 2505 2773 3094 3469

7 7 7 I I 8 8 8 8 9 I 9 9 I I

11 18 56 20 27 35 38 53 55 18 19 20 31 47 55

08 15 41

42 12

54 20 14 12

54 24

05 22 16

Silver medals

We have ltied to ensurc that this list is cofiplete. HoweveL anyone who has been accidentally left out should let us know and we will mention it in the next Gazette.

(011) 39-5777. Glnaket Gazelle June 1983

Fourth soccer win for Grinel apprec iated.

The teams were drawn into two sections of four teams, with Grinel, the winners last year, heading one section and Natal, last year's runners-up, the other sectio n. The blue section consisted oJ G rinel, Zululand,

Brian Stobbart

Precast and Cape. The

red

section comprised Natal, North, Concrete Co n st ructio n and

Transvaal. Games were played on a league basis to decide the

winner and runner-up in each

section. and then on a knock-out basis to decide the finalists. On Saturday 5 [,4arch the results were: Grinel 3 Zu lu land 1, North 2

Natal 1, Precast 4 Cape

Co n c rete Construction 3 Transvaal 1. North 3 Transvaal 2, Natal 3 Concrete Construction 0, For the fourth year in su ccessio n, Grinel have walked off with the O. Grinaker soccer sh ield, having trounced Natal 5-1 in the final. Someone out there had better get h is/herlth eir collective butts over the hill and put together a team that can beat the champions. The 1983 tournament was once again held at the Eersterus stadium in Pretoria, with Grinaker North the host company. All eight

teams arrived

midday

refields, where the

Friday 4 lMarch and after

lu nch

ported to lhe National Referees' Association of South Alrica gave practical dem-

onstrations of lootball ru les, followed by a lecture on fouls,

oflsides. etc. in the even in g. Their help in improving the standard of

play

of our

'"...:

teams

greatly

Zululand

Cape

0, Grinel

Precast 2. On Sunday 6l\4arch the results oJ the remaining league games

were: Grinel 7 Cape 0, Natal 3 Transvaal 1. Zululand 6 Precast2, Concrete Construction 2 North 0. The league was over, with Grinel

winner and Zu lu lan d ru n ner-u p in the blue section, and Natal winner

and Concrete Construction runner-up in the red section. After lunch which, as last year, was provided by the Boulevard Hotel, the knock-out section sta

rted. On the A f ield the winners each

and runners-up played

to decide which teams uld compete in I\,4onday's

other wo

"How does Grinel manage to do it every time?" the group chairman seems to be saying

serni-final and final. Grinei beat Concrete Construction 3-1 and Natal beat Zululand 2-0. On the B

lield the great battle for 5th to 8th places took place and ended as follows: North beat Precast 3-2 to take sth place and Transvaal took 7th place by beating Cape 4-2.

So, on to the final.

Monday dawned bright and clear, with a s lig ht wind f rom the west blowing across the grandstand and field. Perfect, except that there is a brickyard to the west of the stadium, and bricks make dust, don't they, or is it the other way round? Oh well, a ihoroughly gritty lvlonday morning was enjoyed by all. Play-oft for 3rd and 4th place was between Grinaker Concrete Construction and Zululand, with Concrete Construction, voted the most improved team, walking ojl with third place and a creditable score ol 5-1. Then there was panic. Ten minutes to the f in al, all our V. LP.s seated (duslily), and no referee. He just did not arrive possibly he is still wandering around in the dust looking for the field. Help arrived in the form o1 National Professional Soccer League referee Tom Grindlay, who had handled the semiJinal. and the final kicked off as planned at 10 a. m.

Try as they might, Natal had no answer to Grinel's big quns, and Natal went down 5-1 .

ln h is. s peech after the Jinal, g ro u p 44

Gt)naket Ga2ette June l9A3

chairman Ola Grinaker complimented lhe players on their sportsmansh ip

ring the games,

and hoped that the standard of play would continue to improve. He also thanked the community of Eersterus for the use of their facilities and the help that they had given towards making the tournament the success that il

Grinaker Nata I's annual sPorts day was held at Lahee Park,

was. The team managers, football

were invited. Zululand used to take parl but has now grown so

committee members and organ izers were commended lor the work put in during the year and for the tournament. The chairman's an nou ncemenl that he would maintain a keen interest in the proqress ol our football and that alter retirement he would endeavour to attend the linals, was very warmly received by the players.

Once again, the end

Yet

another tournament, and we can relax for another year. But can we? The news is that Denis Brown and Gino Parmeggiani have been given the rare distinction of having to organize the 1984 tournament. This great honou r has been conferred on them due to their love of the game and unflagging energy, and the fact that Paul van Dyk and I are tired. Good luck. See you in Natal (AECI sports g rou nd, Umbogintwini) on the weekend 16 19 N4arch 1984.

The Iinal positions for 1983 read as lollows: 1 Grinel (O. Grinaker sh ield and qold medallions), 2 Natal (runners-up and silver medallions), 3 Concrete Construction (bronze medallions), 4 Zululand,5 North, 6 Precast, 7 T ra n s va a I (s p o rt s m a n s h ip trophy), 8 Cape.

Pinetown, on Saturday 30 APril this year. Grinaker Mining, Planl, Amalgamated Reinforcing, Precast. SA Piled Foundations and

crinaker Construction

Nata

uch that it has a sports day of its

own.

The day was ably organized by [,4axine Fawcett oI Grinaker Con-

struction Natal, assisted Ash

ley Harrison. Sports

Played were bowls, tennis, squash and golf . Th is was the lirst sports day

to be attended by some of the

rinaker Holdings directors. Ola Grinaker, Ernie Vels and Peter

Nuyten came down from Johannesburg and Peter Lail and

Bean Bornheimer ol Natal took part. Ola Grinaker su bseq uentlY mentioned that in his haste to get lhere he got a speeding ticket in the Rolls. Other special guests were HenrY van den Heuvel, now retired, who helped organize the bowls, and John and Marie Escreet, also retired. John and l\4arie managed to carry away major Prizes, John in the bowls section and lvlarie rn the ten n is.

the g host alliance Prizes. Tennis was ably organized bY Gino Parmeggiani and his assis-

tant Deryck Howard; win ners were Marie Escreet and her

partner Doug Ward of Grinaker Conslruction Natal's comPUter

department.

The majority of the four hundred participants opted to PlaY bowls This big section was organ ized bY Henry van den Heuvel and l\4axine Fawcett. There were lots of prizes and the winners, a team

of four, were Lettie

Eybers,

Andrew Fyvie, Jorge Soares and l\4arie Mclvlartrie. Alter an exhausting morning oJ sport, everyone enjoyed a delicio us lu n ch. This was f ollowed bY the prize-giving, a disco, and of course lots of liquid reJreshment. l\4ost people managed to d rag themselves away by about 7P.m after a most enjoyable day.

The squash section was arranged by Angus and Annalene l\4aclean

and the overall prize went to

Grant Lister-James.

To nY Haswell and Larry Wittstock took care of the golf. Tim Swanepoel was the overall winner and Ola Grinaker and Larry Wittstock won

Relaxing between sets: James Duncan, Ashley Hartison and Colin Fowles

Windsurfer for sale lf you are interested in learn ing

how to windsurf or you are a beginner I have the ideal board for you. lt is an Enduro l\4ark ll with a complete rig (sail, boom and mast) and daggerboard. For R400 you could join the g rowing league of fun-loving, th rill-seeking boardsailers. For

further inlormation contact: Allyson Armstrong G rinaker Gazette

(01

1) 58-8915 (office)

or (011) 893-2696 (home). Evetyone enjoyed the lunch altetwatds Gtinaket Gazeue J0ne 1983

{*?

Maxine Fawcett, who was responsible for the organization

Take that! Bowler Bean Bornheimer sends one down

';l'1

\'i

-.l

_\.

An interesting time was had by all

GRIN/4KTR NATAL

to plag boo ls

Chris Laqua and Faye Fowles receive tennis prizes from Ernie Vels (right)

E4.ZETIE