Some disunity delays relaunch of Saaff

ALAN PEAT WHEN THE re-organised SA Association of Freight Forwarders (SAAFF) – with its new constitution and a board of directors replacing the current executive committee – will get underway is still uncertain. All that FTW has been told officially is that the annual general meeting – usually held in July – cannot be held until the audited accounts for the last year are finalised. Unofficially, there appear to be other matters which are also acting to delay the start of the new industry body. We are led to believe that, at the special general meeting held earlier this year, two of the member branches arrived without a mandate to vote on the new constitution. However, FTW was told, Gauteng now has this matter sorted out, but in Cape Town the majority did not accept the new constitution. But, our source added, the special general meeting had enough of a majority to overcome this objection, and the amended constitution has been passed.