African Fusion

SAIW Member profile: Hydra-Arc

AFRICAN FUSION

November 2015

SAIW’s 67

Annual Dinner and Awards

pening the evening, SAIWPresi-

dent, Morris Maroga, began by

welcoming those who travelled

fromafar, notably: SAIWKZN committee

chairperson, DonovanGovender and the

KZN SAIW representative Anne Meyer,

“aswell as ourWesternCape Committee

ChairpersonCorné Coetzee andWestern

Cape representative Liz Berry.”

Welding stakeholders present in-

cluded Raymond Patel and Ester van

der Linde frommerSETA ; JacobMalatse

and Matlala Sathekge from the Depart-

ment of Labour; SAISI’s Johan Nell and

SAISC’s Paulo Trinchero; John Tarboton

from SASSDA; Keith Cain from SAINT,

along with award winners; SAIW Board

members; members of academia; SAIW

corporate and personal members; cli-

ents and friends of the Institute.

“Tonight would not have been

possible without the help of our loyal

sponsors,” said Maroga, before thanking

Afrox; Esab; Hydra-Arc; Xeon Welding;

Lincoln Electric; Bureau Veritas; DCD

Heavy Engineering; Techtra; Transnet;

and WASA.

Following dinner and entertain-

ment, Sean Blake, SAIWexecutive direc-

tor, took the podium to announce the

award winners.

The best students on SAIW

training courses in 2015

“The Institute involves industry repre-

sentatives in every aspect of the devel-

opment of a course: the syllabus; the

trainingmaterial; and theexaminations,”

The SAIW’s 67

Annual Dinner and Awards ceremony took place

on 11 September at Emperor’s Palace in Kempton Park. Com-

pèred by cricket legend Fanie de Villiers with entertainment

from

‘3 Tons of Fun’

, the event brought together key stakeholders

and industry leaders fromall over the country to celebrate South

Africa’s 2015 welding successes.

Above:

Cornelius van Niekerk, Madeleine du Toit and Corné van Rooyen

won the Harvey Shacklock Gold Medal for the best technical paper

presented at an Institute event. His father Oostewald van Niekerk (right),

received the award on Cornelius’ behalf, along with Van Rooyen (centre).

Left:

Michael Godfrey, who achieved distinctions in Welding Inspectors

Level 1 and Level 2, receives the Phil Santilhano Memorial Award from

SAIW president, Morris Maroga.

SA’s welding industry

saidBlake. “It does this to ensure that its

training programmes and the qualifica-

tions that are issued are well suited to

industry requirements. Using this ap-

proachhelps ensure that graduates from

Institute courses have goodprospects of

employment and of meeting employer

expectations,” he explained.

“Anyone attending Institute courses

will testify that they are verydemanding.

A lot of information has to be absorbed

in a short amount of time. Tobe success-

ful takes special effort andwe recognise

the very best SAIW students through

these training awards.”

The winners of the training awards

receive a voucher worth R20 000, which

can be used for any Institute training

course, seminar or conference.

SAIW executive director,

Sean Blake