General Managers.

[barb (Fry)]

Hartley AGM as I recall.
I was in his son's class

[georg ruf jr.]

Yep! Billy was his name. Was my mate for some time.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

There was a Colin Hartely in my time.

[georg ruf jr.]

Could be his sister Diana. I think he had 2 sister that were several years older than him.

[haroldhester]

Congratulations on a wonderful website.
When I arrived in April 1975 John MacKenzie was GM.  He was replaced by John Richards in 1976 (I think).   He was GM until about the end of 1981 when Kobus van Jaarsveld arrived.   Kobus was followed by Ken Trueman.
Regarding AGMs Jim McLuskie was AGM in 1975.   He was replaced by Mike Smith and then Happy Jack Forster.   I took over from him in 1981 and was in turn followed by John (can't remember his surname!)

[Cherry (Alcock)]

Harold - so nice to see you on the forum.  How are you and Geraldine and where are you?  Thanks for filling in the gaps!

Cherry

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Good morning Harold, Stephen says to say Hello and that he has many good memories of those cricketing days.
Hope you and the Family are well.
Stephen and Diana

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Again a welcome to Harold, he should be able to answer many questions.

I am glad he confirmed what i thought, GM in OM.....Ask a german far away, they will tell 

[Lance Olivier]

Hi Harold
The John you refer to, was his surname not Lund.

[Lance Olivier]

Hi All
Had a chat to my Mom and she seems to think the AGM that Harold is referring to was John Ackland. I stand corrected, don't recall John Lund being AGM.

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

Mr Devlin was the GM in 1966 when we left there.......

[Leon Sumter]

Who was the GM that had the Jag E-Type and used to drive it through town on occasion. I remember drooling over this car,


Who was Nisbet? Was he a GM or Chief Engineer?

Leon

[Michael Alexander]

In later years, the 90's, we had ol' Keith Whitelock, he had a ford model T type car...... that was impressive.....

Good Gm..... Was the first Gm to drink Tafel lager here.....suddenly all the nobs switched from Castle to Tafel....go figure....   

[Cherry (Alcock)]

The John was John Ackland; he of the urban legend of saying when he left De Beers that all he was leaving with was "f****ed up furntiture & f****ed kids" - not sure whether this is true - anyone that can confirm/disprove?