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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[KwaZulu-Natal branch event. 9 May 2012]]></article-title>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p align="right"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>SPECIAL    ARTICLES</b></font></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b>KwaZulu-Natal    branch event. 9 May 2012</b></font></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The event was held    at the Blue Marlin in Richards Bay and attended by twenty delegates.</font></p>     <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There were two    presentations:</font></p>     <blockquote>        <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><img src="/img/revistas/jsaimm/v112n6/set.jpg" align="absmiddle">      The first was a presentation on 'Eskom's five year strategy' presented by      Roy Naidoo, the Lead Customer Executive of the Eskom Group Customer Service      Eastern Region. The Co-presenter was Mrs Dhenay Pillay.</font></p>       <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><img src="/img/revistas/jsaimm/v112n6/set.jpg" align="absmiddle">      The second presentation was delivered by Mr Kevin Peacocke, the owner and      founder of Gravity Concentrators Africa, Peacocke Simpson and Associates,      and Appropriate Process Technologies, who presented on 'Enhanced gravity separators      and modular plants'.</font></p> </blockquote>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Both presentations    were presented in a very professional manner, with many questions afterwards.</font></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><img src="/img/revistas/jsaimm/v112n6/04foto01.jpg"></font></p>      ]]></body>
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