034 INTERVIEW
key contributors to the establishment of the Kentse Mpahlwa Gearhouse Training Academy, which runs an annual learnership programme in all Gearhouse branches. “With the buy-in of our Heads of Department, all course material/manuals have been generated by our own fi eld experts and practical training in the workshops is conducted in each discipline. Learners have the potential to be selected for a second year of specialisation and all graduates are released back into the industry as work-ready junior technicians. Some of each year’s graduates are employed by Gearhouse.” Since mondo*dr is principally an installation magazine, it is high time for the introduction of Gearhouse’s start-up, System Solutions, which was registered in January 2001 on the back of a large retail integration project. “We were approached by a property developer with its architect and design team who were looking to do something that hadn’t been done previously in a retail space in South Africa and they wanted to work with a single company that had the necessary showbiz technical skill-set and theatre experience,” recorded Ofer.
“Although we had existing relationships with manufacturers through the rental and staging part of our business, in the beginning we did not intend on going into product distribution and probably would not have done so, except that many of the product distributors were competing with us in the integration business. “So, unfortunately we had no choice but to adopt a similar attitude. Today, we have pretty much come full circle and our focus remains very much on the project work and integration part of the business.” If early installation opportunities were driven by the House of Worship (HoW) market then the FIFA World Cup showed that by 2010 operations like System Solutions were comfortably able to handle large-scale projects, such as new stadia, while its parent company delivered a stupendous closing ceremony. Today, high premium networking AV/IT technology has eddied pretty much into every corporate crevice, while this year’s Mediatech exhibition showed just how far the local industry has progressed. So talk us through it Ofer... starting with the Moses Mabhida and Soccer City,
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