Welcome to Uven Moodley, who is the new SAFPA president. We wish you a happy and fruitful time in this prestigious position. The members of Moodley’s new committee are: Wessie Van Der Westhuizen (vice ...
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At the previous AGM in June 2021, I had just become president of the association, the world and the country were still facing levels of lockdown and we reported that we were focusing on establishing ...
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At SAFPA’s recent technical online presentation, Dr Mandy Wilke, global technical manager for drives, motion control and intellectual property at Trelliborg Sealing solutions, gave a very interesting ...
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At a recent SAFPA technical presentation, a young engineer from BMG, Christo Theron gave an interesting presentation entitled ‘Accumulator Pre-Charge Nitrogen Bottle Requirement’, covering his experience ...
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2023…. A little late to wish all compliments of the season with the first letter being released in February. I would however like to wish all a successful year and hope everybody returned to work after ...
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SAFPA recently hosted its first Soccer Day in three years, and it was a great success. The teams enjoyed themselves and a full day of clean fun was had. Ryco took home the 1st place prize, followed by ...
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      At the recent Electra Mining 2022 Exhibition, SAFPA was on display. Seen here is Manny Vieira manning the SAFPA stand.   
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This year’s SAFPA Golf Day was held on 29 July at the Benoni Country Club. It was a highly successful occasion and everyone enjoyed getting out for a game and networking afterwards, after missing out ...
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With the second half of the year well on its way, it appears to be business as usual. The year started off on a relatively sad note after council learnt of the passing of both Garnet Cross and Chris ...
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At SAFPA’s recent virtual technical meeting, Walter Heijboer from Hydac gave an in-depth presentation covering the use of filtration technologies to mitigate the ageing of oil and to protect equipment. ...
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With the middle of the year fast approaching it’s pretty much business as usual as Covid is taking a back seat for now, although increasing infection rates are of concern. SAFPA’s online technical talks ...
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SAFPA will be organising an exhibition at a career open day organised by the Academic Institute of Excellence (AIE) in Midrand. Originally planned for the 12 of May, it has now been postponed due to ...
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