Whatsup @ SANAS December 2017

Whatsup 

Newsletter of the South African National Accreditation System 

December 2017 

CONTENTS 

From the Editor’s Desk ............................................................................................................ Pg 02 

2017 COMMUNICATIONS MEETING ......................................................................................... Pg 03 

B-BBEE PROGRAMME ADVANCES ............................................................................................ Pg 05 

AFRAC Re-evaluation of SANAS ............................................................................................. Pg 06 

SANAS MARKETING INTERVENTIONS ...................................................................................... Pg 08 

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from the 

Editor’s 

desk 

Welcome to this edition 

of Whatsup@SANAS 

WITH THE YEAR END RAPIDLY 

APPROACHING, SANAS IS 

WORKING AT FULL SPEED TO 

CONCLUDE ALL THE PROJECTS 

IDENTIFIED AND APPROVED FOR 

THE 2017/18 FINANCIAL YEAR. 

DURING THE SECOND QUARTER 

THE ORGANISATION HAS BEEN 

BUSY WITH MULTITUDE OF TASKS. 

ALL OF WHICH WERE FOCUSED 

ON SUPPORTING NOT ONLY THE 

ECONOMY BUT THE NATION AT 

LARGE. 

SANAS was re-evaluated by African 

Accreditation Cooperation (AFRAC) 

for compliance to ISO/IEC 17011 

“Conformity Assessment –General 

requirements for accreditation bodies 

accrediting conformity assessment 

bodies”, the International Laboratory 

Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), 

International Accreditation Forum 

(IAF) and AFRAC requirements, as 

well as compliance to SANAS’ own 

management system. During the 

month of September SANAS had its 

annual Communications meetings 

where key accreditation matters were 

discussed. The highlight was once 

again, the 20 years accreditation 

recognition awards. There were quite 

a number of recipients this year, read 

more about this on page 3 and 4. 

Congratulation to all!! 

SANAS has been very active in 

promoting accreditation which 

allows industries to offer peace of 

mind to consumers with regards to 

quality products, health and safety. 

We embarked on a marketing drive at 

a number of conferences, where we 

had the opportunity to highlight to a 

variety of industries the importance 

of accreditation and to offer edvise on 

where accreditation can be useful tool. 

Your feedback and suggestions on the 

relevance of content in this publication 

continues to be of great importance 

to our improved deliverables, please 

email them to: tshenolom@sanas. 

co.za 

We hope you find the information 

in this newsletter interesting and 

insightful. 

Best wishes 

Tshenolo Molamu 

SANAS Communications Manager 


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2017 CoMMuniCAtionS MeetinG 

By Nombongo Ngobe 

The Annual Communications meetings 

were held during September 2017, at 

four regions which were as follows, Cape 

Town meeting on 05 th September 2017; 

Port Elizabeth meeting on 06 th September 

2017; Durban meeting on 07 th September 

2017 and Gauteng meeting was on 11 th 

September 2017. The purpose of these 

annual meetings is to inform stakeholders 

on latest accreditation developments and 

to discuss matters that may affect their 

accreditation status. The meetings were 

well attended in all the regions Cape 

town about 110 delegates attended the 

meeting, Port Elizabeth 32 delegates 

attended, Durban 62 delegates attended 

and in Gauteng 231 delegates attended 

the meeting. 

The agenda items covered, amongst 

others, the following technical and 

non-technical matters: SANAS 

overview and updates; 

● ILAC/IAF and AFRAC updates; 

● 17011 updates; 

● 17025 updates; 

● Reflecting on 2017 World 

Accreditation Day; and 

● SHANDUKA ‘online application’ 

guidelines. 

Facilities that have been SANAS 

accredited for a period of twenty 

years received the twenty year SANAS 

accreditation certificates. SANAS 

CEO, Mr Ron Josias congratulated 

these facilities on this milestone and 

reminder the representatives that 

they play a key role in safeguarding 

amongst other the health and safety 

in the country. 

We would like to congratulate the 

following facilities on this great 

milestone: 

1. CALIBRATION 

● Major Tech (Pty) Ltd- Accreditation 

number: 145 

● SAA Technical (SOC) Ltd – 

Accreditation number: 108 

● Repair and Metrology Services (Pty) 

Ltd: Accreditation number: 529 

● Eskom Rotek- Accreditation number: 

823 

● The South African Nuclear Energy 

Corporation Ltd (NECSA) – 

Accreditation number: 1203 

● IMP Calibration Services (Pty) Ltd 

– Accreditation number: 1416 

● Repcal Services cc – Accreditation 

number: 146 

● Business Enterprise at University 

of Pretoria- Accreditation number: 

745 

● Air Liquide (Pty) Ltd- 1505 

2. INSPECTION 

● Pipetech cc Meadowdale- 

Accreditation number LVUP036 

● Shell and BP South African 

Petroleum Refineries (Pty) Ltd – 

Accreditation number LVUP034 

3. TESTING 

● Council for Scientific and Industrial 

Research (CSIR) Implementation 

unit, Pretoria – Accreditation 

number: T0007 

● Rand Water Analytical Services – 

Accreditation number: T0046 

● Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd – 


● Anglo Operations (Pty) Ltd – 


● ARC- Irene Analytical Service 

Division – Accreditation number: 

T0063 

● Protechnik Laboratories (Pty) Ltd 

– Accreditation number: T0032 

● Mintek Analytical Service Division 

– Accreditation number: T0042 

● Columbus Stainless (PTY) Ltd – 


● Swift Silliker (Pty) Ltd – 


● Council for Scientific and Industrial 

Research (CSIR) Natural Resources 

and The Environmental 

Analytical Services, Durban – 


4. VERIFICATION 

● Metrology Verification Services cc 

– Accreditation number LTF 0165 

● L and L Pump Centre cc- 

Accreditation number: LTF 0162 

● ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited 

– Accreditation number: LTF 0156 

● Elstern Kent Metering (Pty) Ltd – 


● Port Elizabeth & District Scale 

cc trading as Scale Master North 

End – Accreditation number: LTF 

0146 

● Process Automation (Pty) Ltd- 

Accreditation number : LTF 0142 

● RCL Foods Consumer (Pty) Ltd – 


● Liquid Automation Systems (Pty) 

Ltd – Accreditation number: LTF 

0140 

● Ferrotech Verification Services 

(Pty) Ltd – Accreditation number: 

LTF 0139 

● Mike’s Meters and Maintenance cc 


● National Petroleum Refiners 

of South Africa (Pty) Ltd – 

Accreditation n umber: LTF 0131 

● RCL Foods Consumer (Pty) Ltd – 


● East Rand Scales cc- Accreditation 

number: LTF 0126 

● Weighing instrument Services (Pty) 


0124 

● Lowveld Scale Services cc– 


● The Petroleum Oil and Gas 

Corporation of South Africa 

(Petro SA) (Pty) Ltd – Accreditation 


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Continued from page 03 

● Autotech Weighing Systems (Pty) 


0102 

● B and R Scale Services cc– 


● Mass Measuring Systems – 


● Premier Scale Services (Pty) Ltd – 


● IGC Agency cc – Accreditation 


● Capital Scales cc – Accreditation 


● SI Corporate Group (Pty) Ltd. 

trading as Scales Incorporated cc 


● Natal Scale cc – Accreditation 


● Klerkscales (Klerksdorp) (Pty) Ltd 


● Massamatic (Pty) Ltd – 


● Clover Scales (Pty) Ltd – 


● SASCO Metrology Services (Pty) 


0070 

● Trek Scale Company – Accreditation 


● Liquid Flow Meters cc – 


● Sasol South Africa (Pty) Ltd - – 


SANAS CEO Mr. Ron Josias also 

acknowledged all facilities who took 

part in the AFRAC peer evaluation 

during August 2017. 

He also shared update on SANAS 

move to the new building, and he 

communicated with the meeting the 

below AFRAC developments regarding 

international recognition. 

Mr. Josias shared information about 

AFRAC E-learning to the stakeholders 

that attended the meetings. He hinted 

that this self-study programme allows 

learners to acquire knowledge and 

complete each course at their own 

pace and from anywhere in the world. 

The programme provides ample 

information, reading material as 

well as video interviews and where 

required, subject experts are available 

to assist learners with additional 

information and guidance. Upon 

successful completion of each course, 

learners receive a training certificate 

which may be essential as a prerequisite 

for other courses and further 

AFRAC training. 

The target audience for the 

promotion of the AFRAC E-Learning 

Programme is a growing population 

of organisations and institutes with 

the intent to develop Accreditation 

Cooperation. To watch the E-learning 

video you can visit AFRAC website: 

www.intra-afrac.com 

Some recipients of 20 years recognition awards. 


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B-BBee PRoGRAMMe ADvAnCeS 

By Mokgadi Rameetse 

The SANAS accreditation programmes are 

required to continue ensuring that the 

key strategic matters are implemented 

and maintained. As such, the B-BBEE 

programme conducted an assessor 

training and revived its Specialist Technical 

Committee (STC). 

Assessor Training 

One of the SANAS key strategic 

objectives is to increase the current 

assessor pool in order to provide a 

quality service to all its clients. On 

the 26 th – 28 th June 2017 the B-BBEE 

programme conducted training of 

fifteen (15) new technical assessors 

in line with the requirements of the 

SANAS R47 document. 

The R47 document aims to clarify 

the role of the B-BBEE verification 

agencies and to specify the 

accreditation criteria. 

STC COMMITTEE 

STC is a fundamental and vital 

component of operating a technically 

relevant accreditation system. 

Amongst other things, it is a tool that 

guides technical policy and provides 

important mediation support in 

technical matters to the assessment 

process within a specified area of 

accreditation. If this important focus 

is somehow lost or blurred then 

problems are bound to arise with 

potentially damaging consequences 

to the credibility of the accreditation 

process. 

On the 07 th July 2017, SANAS B-BBE 

Program revived its STCs which will 

continue to provide appropriate 

technical guidance in all matters 

relating to B-BBEE expertise. 

During the STC meeting, the following 

matters were discussed: 

● Mr Mpho Phaloane, SANAS 

Executive, presented on the 

purpose of establishing the STCs 

and outlined the policy on STC 

membership; 

● Mr Yuneal Padayachy the Deputy 

Director: B-BBEE Procurement 

Transformation and Verification, 

discussed the role of the dti in the 

B-BBEE space; 

● The Chairperson of the Association 

of B-BBEE Professionals (ABP), Mr 

David Ndou presented on the role 

of ABP; and 

● Chief Executive Officer of Property 

Sector Charter Council, Mrs Portia 

Tau-Sekati presented on the role of 

the sector councils. 

Details on the responsibilities of 

the STC and the meeting frequency 

was documented in the terms of 

references that will be distributed to 

members. 

I believe that our country’s 

transformation through B-BBEE as 

an instrument, was and continues to 

be a good intervention. Therefore, we 

need to help each other to achieve its 

objectives and remove obstacles to 

transformation, including addressing 

the lack of financial support and 

market access for black businesses. 

Annual Workshops 

B-BBEE programme hosted its 

annual workshops at three regions. 

These were hosted in Cape Town on 

the 05 th September; Durban on the 

07 th September and in Gauteng on 

the 11 th September. Three sector 

codes custodians were invited to 

attend and shared information on the 

sector codes, the dti and the B-BBEE 

commission office also attended these 

meetings. 

During these meetings following 

agenda items were discussed: 

● Information and Communication 

Technology (ICT) Charter; 

● Property Sector Charter effective 

date; 

● Forestry Sector Code effective date; 

● Department of Trade and industry 

(the dti); 

● The B-BBEE commission processes; 

and 

● SANAS processes for submission 

of corrective action. 

It is important that as we drive 

transformation at different levels, 

be reminded of the B-BBEE Policy 

objectives. 

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AFRAC Re-evaluation of SANAS 

By Yolanda Vinnicombe 

SANAS underwent its first re-evaluation by the African 

Accreditation Cooperation (AFRAC) from 31 July to 4 August 2014. 

The evaluation was conducted by a team of six AFRAC 

peer evaluators, who evaluated SANAS’ compliance to the 

requirements of ISO/IEC 17011 “Conformity Assessment – 

General requirements for accreditation bodies accrediting 

conformity assessment bodies”, the International 

Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), International 

Accreditation Forum (IAF) and AFRAC requirements, as 

well as compliance to SANAS’ own management system. 

The AFRAC evaluators were: 

● Mr Moslem Barrak (ARAC, Morocco) – Team Leader, 

evaluating the SANAS management system; 

● Mr Adel Rezk (EGAC, Egypt) – evaluating the accreditation 

of Calibration Laboratories; 

● Ms Lana Marashdeh (JSMO, Jordan) – evaluating the 

accreditation of Medical Laboratories; 

● Mr Chankar Bheekhun (MAURITAS Mauritius) – 

evaluating the accreditation of Testing Laboratories; 

● Ms Susan Munyiri Ochieng (KENAS, Kenya) – evaluating 

the accreditation of Inspection Bodies; and 

● Mr Salih Yuksel (TURKAK, Turkey) – evaluating the 

accreditation of Certification Bodies (QMS, EMS and 

FSMS). 

The evaluation included an evaluation of the SANAS office 

space, as well as the witnessing of SANAS assessments. 

In addition, the AFRAC evaluation of SANAS was witnessed 

by ILAC, as part of ILAC’s evaluation of AFRAC to become 

a recognised Regional Accreditation Cooperation. The 

ILAC evaluators were: 

● Ms Lorena Ramirez Marquez (EMA, Mexico) – witnessing 

the AFRAC evaluation of Inspection Body accreditation; 

● Mr Trace McInturff (A2LA, USA) - witnessing the AFRAC 

evaluation of Testing Laboratory accreditation, and the 

Management System; and 

● Mr Uwe Zimmerman (DAkkS, Germany) – witnessing the 

AFRAC evaluation of Medical Laboratory accreditation. 

After a week of thorough interrogative sessions, probing 

and examining of SANAS’ staff compliance, policies, 

procedures and records, the evaluators confirmed at the 

closing meeting that was held on Friday, 4 August 2017, 

that SANAS administers all Calibration, Testing, Medical, 

Inspection and Certification {Quality Management System 

(QMS), Environment Management System (EMS), and 

Food Safety Management System (FSMS)} accreditation 

programmes in accordance with the requirements of IAF, 

ILAC, AFRAC and ISO/IEC 17011:2004. Moreover, that all 

the accredited conformity assessment bodies that were 

sampled during this peer evaluation were complied with 

the requirements of the relevant accreditation standards. 

The evaluation team particularly commended SANAS on: 

● Transparency, fair and collaborative staff; 

● competence of the assessment teams witnessed during 

evaluation; 

● Well qualified, experienced and knowledgeable Lead 

Assessors, Technical Assessors and industry Experts; 

● The effectiveness of the accreditation programmes. 

The team raised five non-conformances, ten concerns and 

six comments. SANAS is expected to address these before 

a decision on continuing membership to the AFRAC MRA 

can be made. 

SANAS would like to take this opportunity thank the 

following assessors who formed part of all the teams who 

conducted assessments and that were witnessed by AFRAC. 

● Medical: Ms Barbara Mokgethwa, Ms Sakina Loonat, 

Ms Nontando Moeketsi, Ms Mathilda Mogaladi and Ms 

Gugu Ditshego; 

● Testing: Mr Shadrack Phophi, Mr Wietz Beukes and 

Mr Phuti Mathopa; 

● Calibration: Ms Vijay Padayachee, Ms Monica Peart, 

Dr Ireen Field, Mr Napo Ntsasa; 

● Inspection: Mr Eben Smit, Mr Ted Parrett, Mr Bob de 

Lange, Mr Robin Williamson; 

● Certification: Mr Reuben Govender, Mr Tshepo Mpshe, 

Ms Mmapula Thambo. 

The assessor professionalism and competence were 

commended by the evaluation team. You made SANAS 

very proud!! 

SANAS also extends its heartfelt appreciation to the 

following facilities, for their cooperation and hospitality 

shown to the AFRAC and ILAC evaluators while witnessing 

the SANAS assessments. 

● C&M Consulting Engineering cc (1508) 

● Clover Scales (Pty) Ltd (1457) 

Continued on page 07 


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Continued from page 06 

● Ampath National Laboratories - Emfuleni (M0226) 

● Lancet Rosebank (M0099) 

● British American Tobacco SA (Pty) Ltd (T0357) 

● Petrotech Services (Pty) Ltd (INSP0033) 

● Air Products (Pty) Ltd 

● South African Certification & Auditing Services (Pty) 

Ltd (SACAS) (C59) 

Lastly, well done to the SANAS staff members for their 

hard work ,commitment ,and making sure that SANAS does 

not lose its internationally recognition as an accreditation 

body! 

ILAC/IAF – Peer evaluation stages 

Stage 1: Stage 2: Witnessing Stage 3: Decision making 

process 

ILAC/IAF Final decision 

Secretariat Evaluation – 

January 2017 

SADCAS – May 2017 September 2017 October 2018 

EGAG – June 2017 November 2017 

SANAS – August 2017 

TUNAC – November 2017 

ILAC and AFRAC evaluators with SANAS staff members. 

ILAC and AFRAC evaluators. 

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SAnAS MARKetinG inteRventionS 

By Nombongo Ngobe 

MARKETING AND INCREASING AWARENESS OF SANAS ACCREDITATIONS IS CRITICAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THE 

ORGANISATION. AS SUCH, SANAS RECOGNISES THE VALUE OF PARTICIPATING IN INDUSTRY EXPOS AND CONFERENCES 

THAT ATTRACTS DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF THE ECONOMY. DURING THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR 

FROM JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2017, WE EXHIBITED AT THREE CONFERENCES. 

Test and Measurement (T&M) Conference and 

Workshop 

The Conference was held in Gauteng at St George Hotel, 

SANAS exhibited over two days from 31 st July – 01 st August 

2017. The T&M program has been designed for industry 

that is focusing on Measurement science for growth in 

Africa. 

The emphasis for 2017 conference was on the following: 

● Measurement and testing in industry: for the 

establishment of measurement equivalence in the 

African free trade region and improving the quality of 

life for all Africans; 

● Measurement traceability: method validation, 

measurement uncertainty, reference materials; 

● Laboratory quality systems: ISO/IEC 17025, 

accreditation, calibration, proficiency testing; 

● Laboratory staff: recruitment, training, evaluating 

competence. 

years of accurate scientific measurement (metrology) and 

10 years of Institution existence, this celebration was held 

at the CSIR conference centre in Pretoria. Representatives 

from the national, regional and international institutions 

in the Science and Metrology fraternity, government 

representatives and industry experts attended the 

conference metrologists from around the world were in 

attendance . 

Blood Transfusion Congress: 28 th – 31 st August 

2017 

SANAS participated at the 34 th South African National 

Blood Transfusion Congress that was held from 28 th to 

31 st August 2017, at Sun City in North West Province. The 

conference theme for the 2017 congress was “Innovation 

– Lifeline to the Future”, with the focus being on managing 

precious resources such as blood donors, sufficient and 

safe blood and blood products, appropriate use of blood 

and retaining skilled staff. 

For more information on this annual conference visit the 

National Laboratory Association (NLA) website: www.nla. 

org.za 

NMISA 70/10 Celebration 02 nd – 04 th August 2017 

SANAS participated at the Scientific Conference that took 

place from 02 nd – 04 th August 2017. National Metrology 

Institution of South Africa (NMISA) was celebrating 70 

SANAS accreditation provides an external review of 

operations, of the facilities and thus provides assurance 

that the quality management systems of these facilities are 

effective and robust. Blood transfusion services facilities 

are required to maintain extensive quality management 

systems and strive for ongoing improvement in all areas 

of operation. 

Physical addresses 

the dti Campus 

77 Meintjies Street 

Sunnyside, Pretoria 

0002 

SANAS Knowledge 

Transfer Centre 

121 Muckleneuck Street 

Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria 

+27 (0) 12 740-8400 

Private Bag X23 

Sunnyside 

Pretoria, 0132 

South Africa 

Main Switchboard 

+27 (0) 12 394-3760 

General Fax Number 

+27 (0) 12 394-0526 

www.sanas.co.za 


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