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RMI Executives
RMI Board Members
RMI Directors
RMI Head Office
Chief Executive Officer:
Jakkie Olivier
Cell: 082 452 5150
jakkie.olivier@rmi.org.za
Chief Operations Officer:
Jan Schoeman
Cell: 082 552 7712
jan.schoeman@rmi.org.za
Financial Director:
Renee Coetsee
Cell: 082 412 6760
renee.coetsee@rmi.org.za
Company Secretary:
Gary McCraw
Cell: 082 560 6613
gary.mccraw@rmi.org.za
Jakkie Olivier – CEO
Jeanne Esterhuizen – President
Ferose Oaten - Vice President
Mark Dommisse
Frank MacNicol
Eugene Ranft
Riaan Botha
Les McMaster
Johann van de Merwe
Mams Rehaman
Sandra Singh
Charles Canning
Marcel van Ruler
Henry van der Merwe
ARA, SAVABA
Attie Serfontein
Cell: 082 452 5153
attie.serfontein@rmi.org.za
MIWA
Pieter Niemand
Cell: 082 812 5391
pieter.niemand@rmi.org.za
NADA
Gary McCraw
Cell: 082 560 6613
gary.mccraw@rmi.org.za
SAMBRA
Uvashen Bramiah
Cell: 061 148 4289
uvashen.bramiah@rmi.org.za
TEPA, SAPRA
Vishal Premlall
Cell: 082 886 6392
vishal.premlall@rmi.org.za
VTA
Julian Pillay
Cell: 082 560 6625
julian.pillay@rmi.org.za
Training Director
Louis van Huyssteen
Cell: 082 560 6623
louis.vanhuyssteen@rmi.org.za
Transformation Director
Nonhlanhla Noni Tshabalala
Cell: 083 208 7161
noni.tshabalala@rmi.org.za
Labour Director and
Company Secretary Designate
Jacques Viljoen
Cell: 083 337 9922
jacques.viljoen@rmi.org.za
Danelle van der Merwe
Brand and Communication Manager
Cell: 082 926 5846
danelle.vandermerwe@rmi.org.za
Nonhlanhla Noni Tshabalala
HR Manager
Cell: 083 208 7161
noni.tshabalala@rmi.org.za
Julian Pillay
Regulatory Compliance Manager
Cell: 082 560 6625
julian.pillay@rmi.org.za
011-886-6300
www.rmi.org.za
Surrey Square Office Park
330 Surrey Avenue,
Ferndale, Randburg
2194
RMI Regional Offices
Julian Pillay: Regional Manager: KwaZulu-Natal
Randall Langenhoven: Regional Manager: Western Cape
Peter van Mosseveld: Regional Manager: Eastern Cape/Border
Jeff Molefe: Regional Manager: Central
(Gauteng/Northwest/ Mpumalanga/ Limpopo)
Reemo Swartz: Regional Manager: Free State/Northern Cape
Central: Randburg: 011 886 6300
KwaZulu-Natal: Durban: 031 266 7031
Eastern Cape/Border: Port Elizabeth: 041 364 0070
Western Cape: Cape Town: 021 939 9440
Free State/Northern Cape: Bloemfontein: 051 430 3294
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ord’s next generation Ranger
Raptor will be its latest off-road
ing vehicle to tackle the SCORE
International Baja 1000 – one of the
toughest off-road races in the world.
The Ranger Raptor will be racing on
a low-carbon biofuel, demonstrating
the potential of these fuels in the
Ford Performance worked with
Australia’s Kelly Racing to build the
Baja-ready Ranger Raptor and U.S.-
based Lovell Racing to develop and
race the truck at Baja, which begins on Nov. 18.
Lovell Racing, led by multi-time off-road champi
on and Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Famer Brad
Lovell, is one of Ford Performance’s key off-road
“By entering this event, we’re building on the
ment testing and pushing the Ranger Raptor to
new extremes,” said Brian Novak, Off-Road Mo
torsports Supervisor, Ford Performance.
The Baja 1000, held on the Baja California
Peninsula, is considered one of the world’s most
prestigious off-road races, attracting competi
tors from around the globe eager to take on its
miles of treacherous desert terrain, steep drops
and tough climbs.
In the past, both the F-150 Raptor and Ford
Bronco have successfully raced at Baja. Whether
it was a stock 2017 F-150 Raptor finishing on the
podium before driving an additional 400 miles
home, the Bronco R race prototype’s develop
ment and verification of the current production
Bronco or even hailing all the way back to the leg
endary 1969 overall win, there’s hearty history at
play for Ford trucks.
Ford Performance believes the Ranger Raptor
is up for the challenge. It is built to the rules of
SCORE’s stock class, which are meant to show off
the capability of the stock street legal bakkies.
The Ranger Raptor will be powered by Shell’s
low carbon biofuel blend, which consists of more
than 30% sustainably sourced bio components.
“Demonstrating low-carbon fuels
in performance settings like the Baja
1000 can help bring biofuels and oth
more quickly, and help to make them
more available and affordable for ev
eryone,” said Cynthia Williams, Global
Director of Sustainability, Compliance
and Homologation at Ford.
Ford is working to achieve car
bon neutrality globally across its ve
hicles, operations and supply chain
by no later than 2050 and to reach
science-based interim targets by 2035. As Ford
launches electrified versions of its most popular
nameplates, the company continues to research
and develop alternative fuel options across all
of its vehicles, including performance racing, to
provide customers with efficient, low-carbon al
ternatives. Alternative fuel vehicles can reduce
GHG emissions compared to conventional fuel
equivalents on a well-to-wheels basis, which in
cludes emissions from both producing and con
suming the fuels.
otortrend’s iconic Hot Rod brand, one
of the most recognised brands in the
1948, announced the brand will celebrate its
75th anniversary by providing free access to its
massive magazine archives, featuring digital ver
sions of every Hot Rod Magazine published prior
ClassiC car fans can access the Hot Rod digi
tal archive by registering for a free MotorTrend+
account. With more than 900 issues of Hot Rod
Magazine published since 1948, totaling more
than 128 000 pages of content, the Hot Rod Dig
ital Archives takes readers from the early days of
organised racing on the dry lake beds through the
horsepower wars of the ‘60s into present day.