Visit by Roemer Goossensen
of Afmitech Friesland in
The Netherlands

On the week of 10 to 14 November 2019, SINRMAS hosted several meeting with Mr. Roemer Gossensen from Afmitech. The primary purpose of the meeting was for Roemer to deliver a series of presentation to SINRMAS and other industry players on Afmitech’s wastewater treatment product offering.

Several meetings were conducted with multiple stakeholders and there were also a site visits to various wastewater treatment plants for observation purposes. SINRMAS will also send its delegation to The Netherlands to conduct further observation in early 2020.

Welcome to
Ms. Susan Van Heerden

Effective from 1 November 2019, Ms Susan Van Heerden will join SINRMAS as Technical Advisor responsible both for laboratory quality assurance and training portfolio development. Susan has worked in the water sector for over 35 years and she left indelible footprints in companies such as Eskom; Rand Water and few more others.

She is a training specialist accredited with few SETAs. She will mainly assist in the developing SINRMAS training department which is to be instituted later in November 2019. She will always also monitor the work of our water quality monitoring team ensuring adherence to norms and standards. Her other critical duty with SINRMAS will be to initiate and lead the accreditation of its water laboratory by the South African National Accreditation Standards (SANAS)

Farewell to
Ms. Nosipho Mashaba

This month SINRMAS and the entire Seanego Group family bid farewell to a dynamic young lady who joined the company in January this year as Admin Assistant. Nosipho leaves the company to pursue her career in Pretoria. She has been such an energising figure teeming with great potential. We count ourselves lucky that at some point we were blessed with her presence and accordingly convey our well-wishes for in all her future personal and professional pursuits. Farewell dear sister!

Strategic Planning Retreat

On the weekend 9-11 August 2019, Seanego Resources and SINRMAS staff went on a strategic planning retreat at Fortis Malag Hotel in Waterval Boven, Mpumalanga. The purpose of the retreat was for the companies to share their business overview with staff and to set their medium-term business strategies. The retreat was attended by all full-time staff members, consultants and subject matter expert facilitators who helped in steering discussions. The main output of the retreat was a well-crafted strategic plan which will guide both companies for the next 3 years.

Financial Reporting Workshop for Department of Environment,
Forestry & Fisheries NRM Project Implementers

As an implementer of one of DEFF’s NRM projects in Mpumalanga, Seanego Resources attended the 2 day workshop that convened in Johannesburg on the week of 27-28 August 2019. The workshop was as much an empowering experience for our managers as it was a disempowering one in that to some extant it managed to bring clarity to few riddles that have been the source of confusion and consternation for implementers. However, if anything, the workshop also revealed the many grey areas that exist in the current contracting model used by the department and in the many in which funds get allocated to implementers and for which line items. Overall, both our Group MD and our Capacity Building Coordinator are of the view that the workshop had few empowering elements that can be the basis for future implementer capacity building efforts by the department.