CMO Conferencing

Planning is well underway for Focus on Forestry 2017, organised by CMO, NMMU and the ICFR.

Focus on Forestry will now be presented every second year – alternating between KwaZulu Natal and Mpumalanga, South Africa. Hosting Focus every second year will allow us to offer you an event that will add more value from South Africa in particular and Africa in general, and allow equipment manufacturers and service providers to invest in good exhibitions and field demonstrations.

Focus on Forestry now has a wider scope of including silviculture, fire management and forest engineering.

The 2017 theme is: “Harvesting, silviculture and fire management systems for a restructured forest industry”

Focus on Forestry 2017 is a larger and improved conference, exhibition and demo, aimed at the entire forestry value chain and caters for forestry role-players from across the Africa. Our target market remains primarily for the forestry manager, contractor, equipment supplier and related role-players.

Date: 19 to 21 of April 2017

Location: KwaZulu Natal (close to Pietermaritzburg), South Africa

For any sponsorship queries, please contact Andrew Mc Ewan at Andrew@cmo.co.za

For any registration queries, please contact Nontethelelo Ramantswana at  nontethelelo@cmo.co.za

We look forward to seeing you all on 19 to 21 April 2017!

New Minimum Wages for Farm & Forestry Workers W.E.F. 1 March 2017

Details of the new minimum wages for farm and forestry workers which will become effective from 1 March 2017.

Given the current formula used to determine mid-cycle new minimum wages, (i.e. CPI excluding owners’ equivalent rent published in December 2016, plus 1%) the new minimum wage will increase by 8% to:

R 3 001.13  per month
R     692.62  per week
R     138.39  per day (based on 9 hours work)
R      15.39  per hour