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DEPARTMENT
GAZETTE
TOP ACHIEVERS HONOURED AT ANNUAL PRINTING SA GALA DINNER
The annual Printing SA Gala Dinner, held in
association with the FESPA Africa Expo (co-located
with the Sign Africa, Africa Print and Africa LED
Expos), took place on 12 September at Gallagher
Convention Centre. Close to 300 members from
the printing and packaging industry were in
attendance.
Ken Leid, Printing SA’s Director of national
training and development, together with Practical
Publishing’s Charnia Yapp, organiser of the 2018
FESPA Africa and Africa Print Expo, presented the
Africa Print Top Achiever Award and cheques to the
top three students in this year’s National TT Block
Awards.
Coming in as third runner up was Clive Edward
Sharpe from Cape Town, with Lucky Dludla from
KZN in second place. The overall national top
achiever for 2018 was Thilimbilu Tshivhase who
is interning at Caxton with a pass mark of 97.4%.
They received cheques of R2000, R3000 and R5000
respectively.
Another highlight on the programme was the
presentation of the Gutenberg Awards which
were introduced to commemorate printing greats
Lambert Retief and Martin Deysel.
Central chamber chairman Andrew Reid presented
this year’s awards to Felleng Yende (CEO of the
FP&M Seta) and Edward Ronny, who have both
been instrumental in the advancing the industry in
the private and public sectors.
Back: Charmaine Kearns, Jermaine Naicker and Charnia Yapp. Front: Clive Edward Sharpe, Ken Leid,
Thilimbilu Tshivhase, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Lucky Dludla.
The gala dinner was themed ‘1920s New York’,
paying tribute to the entrance of fashion and style
into the modern era. This was also the golden era of
mass media.
the South African printing and packaging industry is
very much alive and well.
High profile guests at this event, including Deon
Joubert, acting president of the Printing SA Board,
and deputy minister of telecommunications and
postal services, the honourable Stella Ndabeni-
Abrahams, addressed members during the evening.
Members were also treated to Printing SA’s national
TV campaign adverts, featuring ETV celebrity
presenters and the Goliath Brothers showing that
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