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SAGA President <strong>2008</strong>-9: Report<br />
Your newly elected SAGA President is Stefaans du Plessis, Research Group Leader<br />
at the CSIR Applied Geoscience research group.<br />
Stefaans in Peru, Consulting to a mining company (December 2007)<br />
The SAGA AGM held in May <strong>2008</strong> was a very enjoyable affair at a function held at<br />
the old Johannian club in Houghton, Johannesburg. It was a very cosy venue with<br />
fires to neutralise the effect of the cold winter evening. The evening was attended by<br />
around 40 people. Petro du Pisani, the SAGA President for 2007-8 presented her<br />
report on the activities during her term. Her report is elsewhere in this newsletter. The<br />
SAGA year 2007-8 under Petro’s competent leadership and enthusiasm was a busy<br />
year for SAGA, with two visiting SEG distinguished lecturers, monthly talks, three<br />
courses (Uranium, MT and Geophysics in Exploration), as well as the highly<br />
successful SAGA2009 Biennial Conference at the Wild Coast Sun. On behalf of me,<br />
as new SAGA President and the SAGA committee, and SAGA members, we would<br />
like to sincerely thank you for your efforts in making 2007- 8 a most successful year<br />
for SAGA. Well done and congratulations on a significant achievement. It certainly<br />
was a lot of fun as well!<br />
The SAGA treasurer, Geoff Campbell arrived just in time for delivering his usual<br />
eloquent, clear and concise and entertaining report. SAGA is happy to report that the<br />
finances look solid at the moment.<br />
In order to strengthen our relationship with the Geological Society of <strong>South</strong> Africa<br />
(GSSA), we invited a number of GSSA representatives to the SAGA AGM. From the<br />
Egoli Branch of the GSSA, we had Dr George Henry (Chairman Egoli Branch of the<br />
GSSA) and Erika Barton (who sends out the SAGA talk announcements to Egoli<br />
Branch members) as well as a Vice President of the GSSA, Dr Pamela Naidoo,<br />
representing the GSSA, attending the SAGA AGM. During 2007, we had an informal<br />
arrangement whereby Egoli Branch GSSA talks announcements were sent to SAGA<br />
members and SAGA talks announcements in return to Egoli Branch GSSA members.<br />
Editor: Stoffel Fourie<br />
sfourie@csir.co.za<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2008</strong> No.1
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