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GLSA Yearbook 2007.Indd Grand Lodge of South Africa G.L.S.A.Grootlosie van Suid Africa Year Book - 2007 - Jaarboek 2007 Mining Type Products Mill Lining Stub / Hydrocyclones Screen Media Tega Beruc South Africa (Pty) Ltd Tel: (011) 421-6761/14 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (011) 845-1472 E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 17260, Benoni West 1503 www.beruc.co.za Deo et Collegio For God and our Order / Vir God en ons Orde Coat of Arms of the Grand Lodge of South Africa Registered at the Bureau of Heraldry, eoCerticate et No 1428 oei of 3 April 1987 Wapenskild van die Grootlosie van Suid-Afrika geregistreer by die Buro van Heraldiek, Sertikaatnommer 1428 van 3 April 1987 Arms: Or a square with corner baseward surmounted by a compass Gules; on a chief Azure a sun in splendour; Or Crest: A lion couchant; Or Wreath; Or Gules, Supporters: Two Springboks proper; collared On Motto: Deo et Collegio Index 3 Coat Of Arms. 47 Eastern Division: Annual Report. 4 e Grand Master, Most Wor. J T Bowen O.S.M. 50 Eastern Cape Division: Annual Report. 5 e Deputy And Assistant Grand Masters. 52 e Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter Of 6 Annual Report Of e Grand Master.neSouth Africa: Annual Report. 16 Grand Lodge Ocers 2006/2007. 55 e Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter Of S.A. 18 Grand Committee 2006/2007. Meeting and Installation Dates. 19 Grand Lodge Standing Committees 2006/2007. 56 Supreme Grand Chapter Ocers, Meritorious 20 Order Of Service To Freemasonry. (O.S.M.). Service Award To Royal Arch Freemasonry, Grand 21 Past Grand Masters. Superintendents. 22 Past Ocers Of Grand Lodge. 57 Supreme Past Grand Chapter Ocers. 25 Past Grand Lodge Rank Conferred. 58 Supreme Past Grand Chapter Rank Conferred. 27 Sixty & Fiy Year Masonic Service Jewel. Representatives Of Sister Grand Chapters. 29 Representatives Of Sister Grand Lodges. 59 Southern Division: Annual Report. 32 GLSA Meeting & Installation Dates, 2006/2007. 61 Northern Division: Annual Report. 36 Southern Division: Annual Report. 63 Supreme Council For South Africa. 41 Northern Division: Annual Report. e Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite 45 Central Division: Annual Report. e Grandmaster / Die Grootmeester 2007 Most Worshipful Bro. / Hoogeerwaarde Br. J T BOWEN O.S.M. G S-AG ~ J G LG B S A ~ Y ~ 4 ~ Grand Lodge Of South Africa / Grootelosie Van Suid-afrika Established / Gestig 1961 Dep. Grand Master Asst. Grand Master Asst. Grand Master Adj. Grootmeester Asst. Grootmeester Asst. Grootmeester Rt.Wor.Bro. A Watson Rt.Wor.Bro R C Hindrichs Rt.Wor.Bro. G Edwards Asst. Grand Master Asst. Grootmeester Grand Secretary /Grootsekretaris V. Wor.Bro./ SV Br. A.Arthur, 1st. July 2007 2007 Registered Oce: Grand Lodge Centre / Grootlosiesentrum. 75, 13 Street, Orange Grove S-AG ~ J LG B S A ~ Y P.O. Box 46203, Orange Grove, 2119. Telephone: (011) 640-1324 Fax: (011) 640-3915 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://welcome.po/glsa Rt.Wor.Bro. P Coetzee ~ 5 ~ Grand Lodge of South Africa Wor Bro Roland C Hinrichs and Right Wor Bro Georey R Edwards. Your support and dedication to Grand Lodge Grand Masters Annual Report. has once again contributed much to the smooth running 18 August 2007 in Cape Town of Grand Lodge. To the Past Commissioned Ocers of randLoGrand Lodge I thank you for your willingness to bridge rethren, I am privileged and honoured to greet you the gap when it was needed; you certainly add strength to Ball this aernoon and I welcome each of you to our the back bone of our cra. 46th Annual Meeting being held in this magnicent Tempel de Goede Hoop Cape Town. Finances: Once again operating costs continue to escalate and the Grand Treasurer, Right Wor Bro F. P. I am especially pleased to extend to our distinguished Coetzee has had to nd new ways to accommodate these visiting Grand Masters and Brethren of other Grand juris- increases. He will a little later present and call for the dictions namely Gabon, Cote ďIvoire, Congo, Mali and acceptance of the Grand Lodge nancial accounts. Bakeno Faso warm and fraternal greetings. I hope that you will not only enjoy today’s proceedings but also the time Grand Lodge Secretariat: Right Wor Bro Barry you spend in our beautiful country. C Johnson retired as Grand Secretary at the end of December 2006. aer ten years service. I take this I now have the pleasure to present my report on the opportunity to thank him for his loyal and dedicated activities of your Grand Lodge for the year 2006/2007. service to Grand Lodge. Right Wor Bro Johnson you will be sorely missed. My report would not be complete e goals set at the start of my tenure as Grand Master, without a very sincere thank you to Mrs Moira van Dyk. were Membership, Education, Communication and Lodge the administrative assistant to the Grand Secretary, who Attendance. Only by all of us continually working at these has shouldered the day to day duties of Grand Lodge since goals will we be able to make a dierence to our Grand Right Wor Bro Johnson’s retirement, She is denitely our Lodge and I am very proud of the progress that has been unsung heroine. made in some of these areas. We seem to have curtailed the membership losses, and more brethren are committed to It is with much pleasure that I am able to announce that completing the Education Course. Worshipful Bro Andrew Arthur was appointed Grand Secretary; as from the 1st of July 2007. Worshipful Bro Communications and Lodge Attendance: Arthur will be obligated and invested later to day. I am e Provincial Grand Lodges are once again making good sure you will all join me in wishing him a long and fruitful progress in this area. e relationship with the Lodges in term as Grand Secretary. their various Divisions continues to improve. Brethren this is your Grand Lodge, please participate, your input is To the Immediate Past Grand Master Most Wor Bro B.G. important. Lindeque O.S.M. thank you for being there when you were e Attendances, at our Lodges meetings are not what they needed I cannot nd words suitable enough to thank you, should be and there are many brethren who seem to look for your total commitment to our Grand Lodge. 2007 for reasons as to why they should not be in attendance. I ask you are the obligations taken on the Volume of Overseas Visits: e promotion of visits to and from the Sacred Law, between yourself and GOD no longer Grand Lodges both within Africa and overseas are I meaningful? believe essential and necessary to broaden our minds and to educate us on how the rest of the world lives. Visits over Grand Lodge Ocers: My heartfelt appreciation the last twelve months have been to the following. goes to e Grand Lodge Ocers who have once again travelled the length and breadth of South Africa. Brethren La Grande Loge Nationale Francaise: it is dicult to nd the words adequate enough to express On Saturday 3rd of December 2006, aer having received my appreciation to these outstanding Masons for their an invitation from the La Grande Loge Nationale Francaise, I visited Paris to attend their Annual Meeting. G S-AG ~ J support and commitment. To the Commissioned Ocers G LG B S A ~ Y of Grand Lodge, Right Wor Bro Armiston Watson, Right Once again this was a very prestigious event. ere were ~ 6 ~ ~ GRAND LODGE OF SOUTH AFRICA | GROOTLOSIE VAN SUIDAFRIKA ~ Grand Lodge of South Africa between 2500 to 3000 brethren present and amongst Lodge of England, the Provincial Grand Lodges of Ireland these were plus / minus 100 representatives from Grand and the District Grand Lodges of Scotland continue to Lodges throughout the world. prosper. Grand Lodge of Cyprus: In October 2006 our Grand Lodge Complex: In September 2006, due Grand Lodge was represented by Most Wor Bro. Lindeque to the critical shortage of Lodge accommodation in the O.S.M. and Worshipful Bro D. Markintonis at the Johannesburg area it was decided to convert the existing consecration of the Grand Lodge of Cyprus held in hall into a new Lodge Temple. Added to this are all the Nicosia. extras needed such as Store rooms Robing room, Refectory, upgrading of existing kitchen, two additional oces, Grand Lodge De Mauritius: In March 2007 Ladies and Gents toilets and a new roof to the existing Rt Wor Bro Piet Coetzee the Grand Treasurer oce block. e Grand Lodge house and small Flat are in accompanied by his wife Cheryl went to the island of the throws of being refurbished. Both projects have been Mauritius, where he attended the Annual Meeting of managed by M. Wor Bro B.G. Lindeque and Wor Bro its Grand Lodge, and the Consecration of an English C. Bronkhorst and are due to be completed by the end speaking Lodge, Lodge Unity, which, I am told was done of September 2007. I thank you both for the outstanding according to the South African Ritual. work that you have done, Grand Lodge and I are in your debt. Visits to Grand Lodges in Africa: Masonic Homes: e Southern Divisions Masonic • Grande Loge Du Congo Homes for seniors continue to be administered • Grande Loge De Mauritius professionally and are running well. Building maintenance • Grande Lodge Du Code ďIvoire and preventive maintenance are on going and costs are • Grande Loge Du Mali kept to a minimum, (Materials only) and the labour for the maintenance is being carried out by members of the Two days before the Annual Meeting of the Grande Loge Lodges in the area where the homes are situated.
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