OBITUARY

Professor Manat Tolymbekov

N. Barcza

The International Committee on Ferro-Alloys (ICFA) of which the SAIMM is a founding member, wishes to inform members of the sudden recent passing of Professor Manat Tolymbekov, a member of the Committee of ICFA.

Prof. Tolymbekov was the Director of The Abishev Chemical-Metallurgical Institute in Karaganda, Kazakhstan and was instrumental in the hosting of and was the Chairman of INFACON XIII that was held in Almaty, Central Asia, in 2013. This was the first time INFACON was held in a Russian speaking region and South Africa was very well represented at INFACON XIII due to the interest in a country that few would have had the opportunity to visit and the programme at this Congress.

The chairman of ICFA, Dr Rodney Jones and immediate past president of the SAIMM, has conveyed condolences from ICFA and the SAIMM to family and colleagues of Prof. Tolymbekov.