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S A Metal Finisher Issue 28

Our other two regional year end events also took the format of relaxed networking
opportunities without any technical presentations. In Gauteng we hired a spit
braai specialist to feed us, and he did an outstanding job.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS
Apart from our year end events, the regional mid-year AGMs are the only other
member meetings arranged. During 2019 AGMs were held in the Cape on June
19, in Gauteng on June 20 and in KZN on July 2. In preparation, regional executive
meetings always precede the AGMs.
MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION ADJUSTMENT
With input from our regional committees the following fee structure was
recommended for adoption with effect from July 1, 2019:
Standard Membership - R 2 680 per year (ex VAT) up by R 130 from the year
before. Essentially an increase of less than R11 per month.

Sustaining Membership - It was decided to peg the sustaning rate at R 5 950 per
year (ex VAT) taking into account the trading conditions prevailing and the reliance
that SAMFA places on these premium class members.
These adjustments were accepted unanimously by the members in all three
regions and implemented from July 1, 2019 as proposed.

REGIONAL MANAGEMENT TEAMS
The second important matter that has to be dealt with at our AGMs is to select
willing individuals to serve on the regional executive committees.
KZN
Generally committee members continue to serve and only
step down in special circumstances. We have been
accustomed to being able to vote serving members back
onto their committees “en bloc”.
But in KZN with John Danks standing in as interim
chairperson and Dean Schafer advising that he was
stepping down from the committee, this region was to
have the biggest changes at committee level for some
years.

Regional members will recall that Shane Peixoto of Shane Peixoto
Coating Technologies, a SAMFA Sustaining Member
company, had accepted a position on the KZN regional executive at the July 2018
AGM. When Mark Wright announced his resignation at the year end event, several
members made it clear to Shane that they would welcome him standing as their
regional chairperson at the 2019 AGM.

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