Annual report/FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1996

摘要

In the interests of individual members, the SAIMM undertakes to assess the qualifications, experience, and the level of responsibility of applicants for membership, and allocates a membership certificate in an appropriate grade as a means of granting appropriate professional and technical status to individuals who practise in the minerals and metals sector; undertakes to prepare and publish career-guidance brochures, bursary handbooks, audio-visual and video programmes, optional school-curricula material, etc., and participates in the activities of the RADMASTE Centre to stimulate scholars and students to select careers in the minerals and metals sector of the South African economy; guards the professional interests of engineers, scientists, technologists, and technicians by providing a corporate voice and by representing their interests on bodies such as the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Afica (AS&TS);