 HISTORY |
At the end of 1989, a small group of young entrepreneurs living in Angola decided to create their own company to respond to perceived customer needs in the key developmental areas of energy, communications, refrigeration and water systems. Starting out as suppliers of small diesel generators, they called their company Jembas.
Capitalising on its core skills -base within the Energy and Communications and related sectors, the business has steadily expanded and diversified its activities into other related areas.
Jembas has installed and services equipment that provides the majority of the emergency electrical power currently available in Luanda, as well as the prime electrical supply for Cabinda and Soyo. More than 2000 generators of all sizes have been installed and are being serviced throughout Angola by Jembas experts and technical support staff. The sales, installation and service of generators and the development in wireless communications have represented much of Jembas' growth for over a decade.
Jembas' success is based on its technical reputation for knowing the quality products that it sells and services and for the high caliber of its technicians and support staff, its large stocks of equipment and spare parts and the branch offices it maintains throughout the country, offering a single source supplier from the initial application stage through to follow up service and maintenance.
Jembas employs approximately 700 Angolans and 100 expatriates in its operations m Angola today.
The company is acutely aware that it must be efficient, competitive, and responsive to the customers it serves in order to grow in the 21th Century.
| SERVICES |
Jembas Assistência Técnica is the only single source service organization in Angola that can respond to your requirements in the following areas:
Electrical Power generation systems, whether large turnkey facilities for solutions in an urban environment or smaller single unit installation.
Telecommunications systems and communications installations including infrastructure and management of radio trunking systems, IIF/SSB, microwave radio networks, VSAT and others.
Water pumping and irrigation systems including reverse osmosis installations.
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning systems design and manufacture of custom designed cold storage and deep freeze facilities. Supply, installation and maintenance of central air conditioning offering both split and window systems.
Housing or office construction through the supply of locally manufactured insulated panels that offer an excellent price-quality ratio and that are easy and quick to install.
ln partnership with LonTop Angola we can offer you practical solutions to your construction needs - schools, offices, hospitals, and homes, offering comfort, safety, insulation from heat and sound protection as well as quick installation. W1e also have a large choice of modem and functional Swedish furniture available.
Agricultural activities are supported through John Deere tractors and agricultural equipment along with water pumping and irrigation systems.
Global entertainment and information through Multichoice-Angola (DSTV)
Tourism through the Pelican Organization and the hotel and restaurant complex on Mussulo across the Bay
Marine Propulsion and Industrial power, complete engines and drive train solutions.
Oil Field gas power plants, compressor pumps.
Service Contracts including supervision and maintenance of power generation
units, buildings and facilities on a 24-hour basis.
Paint supplies for the oil industry through Stapem Offshore in Luanda and Sangemetal in Soyo.
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS |
The Jembas group of companies has provided and installed over2000generator sets throughout Angola. Some are being used as the prime power source, others as back up. Applications include providing power for hospitals, factories, hotels, secure installations, and housing areas.
Pumping stations for irrigation purposes and in support of or service activities including reverse osmosis units in rural areas.
Telecommunications projects: Nationwide wireless communication installations, trunking systems, Microwave Networks, infrastructure projects for CDMA and GSM cellular telephones. Jembas owns and operates its own trunking systems in Luanda and Cabinda.
UPS power systems by Exide and Powerware have been supplied to numerous customers the largest one to date for TAAG Angolan Airlines (125KVA)
Refrigeration and freezing plants have been installed in several locations throughout Angola for both the private and public sector
News and entertainment through DSTV Multichoice , keeping television subscribers in touch with breaking events, films, sports and entertainment programs from around the world.
Providing paint supplies to local applicators and oil companies that satisfies their stringent requirements.
A Hotel and restaurant complex on Mussulo Island that caters to the needs of an upmarket clientele requiring international standards in terms of lodging, cuisine, and conference facilities.
In association with LonTop, Jembas has installed several prefabricated office units on the Sonils base in Luanda.
Jembas has erected numerous metallic structure buildings including warehouses and storage areas and has built a variety of structures ranging from offices to housing complexes, storage tanks to communications towers in numerous locations throughout Angola.
| JEMBAS SAILFISHING CLASSIC 2001. 425°ANIVERSARIO DE LUANDA |
Angola is blessed with excellent opportunities for game fishing with special emphasis on sailfish and blue marlin. The Ail Tackle world record for sailfish and several other sailfish records are held by sailfish caught off Luanda. Game fishing is currently the only sport in which Angola holds world records. Half of the 20 world line class records were caught off Luanda and the Largest Atlantic sailfish (64 kg) was caught in Angola. Although no records are held here for blue marlin the average weight is around 200 kg and the largest caught weighed 428kg.
For the 3rd consecutive year JEMBAS will hold the Jembas Sailfish Classic, which this year celebrates Luanda's 425th Anniversary. The event takes place on the 23rd, 24th & 25th of February and participants are requested to contact the Club Naval of Luanda for details. The three-day competition is expected to attract up to 30 teams involving around 120 anglers and for the first time two full ladies teams will be competing. |
The competitors are of over 20 nationalities and include some visitors from abroad. For the first time in a fishing tournament in Angola, SuperSports Channel will be sending in a team from South Africa specifically to cover the event.
The Jembas Sailfish Classic strongly supports the Tag & Release program that entails the video filming of the capture and the tagging and the subsequent release of the fish alive. The scoring system used encourages the release of the fish e.g. if a released fish weighed around 30kg it would be given the same points as a 40 kg fish.
The Jembas Sailfish Classic was the first competition since independence where only sailfish are targeted. Sail fishing requires different techniques as for marlin fishing and is quite specialized.
In the first Jembas Sailfish Classic, a IGFA world record was achieved with a 58.8kg sailfish. The 20 teams only caught 7 sailfish, and the winning team was the Marlinheiros with 3 sailfish.
In the second Jembas Sailfish Classic Il, the 27 participating teams caught sailfishes, and the winning team with 2 sailfishes was Blue Bayou.
Most fishing competitions in Angola target billfish (sailfish & Blue marlin), and the tournaments use the IGFA (International Game Fishing Association) rules.
The Prize award ceremony will take place in Mussulo Island - at Pelicano - Onjango on
Monday 26th February at 18:30 hours, with the presence of His Excellency the Governor of Luanda.
 Brief History of billfishing tournament in Angola |
60-70's CAPL (Clube de Armadores de Pesca de Luanda) started competitions and many IGFA records were set.
1975 With Independence much of the enthusiasm vanished, and little sail fishing was done.
Late 80's Competitions started again in 1988; a major competition was organized by the ADM (Associaçào dos Desportos do Mar). This tournament has been held every year since.
1993 First bilIfishing tournament organized by the Clube Naval de Luanda (CNL)
1999/2000 Season: 10 tournaments organized, 7 by CNL and 3 by AND
2000/2001 Season: 9 tournaments organized, 6 by CNL, 2 by ADM and 1 by Clube Nautico de liha de Luanda.
| Current Atlantic Sailfish Records |
Most of the large ones were caught out off Luanda and the fact that the largest sailfishes are found out off Luanda is well known internationally.
The Largest Atlantic sailfish weighing 64 kg (called the "Ail Tackle Record") was caught off Luanda in 19/02/94 by Alfredo de Sousa Neyes.
There are 20 different records for sailfish depending on how the fish is caught, and there are 10 for men and 10 for women. Angola currently holds the following records:
MEN
| Line Class |
Weight offish |
Date |
Angler |
| 61b |
39.0 kg |
14/2/74 |
A. de Jesus Gaspar dos Santos |
| 161b |
58.8 kg |
21/2/99 |
Iain Nicoison |
| 201b |
58.0 kg |
30/3175 |
Mario Rui Alves da Silva |
| 301b |
55.2 kg |
25/2/96 |
Hakan Ekberg |
| 801h |
60.6 kg |
22/3/98 |
Eduardo Vale Moreira |
WOMEN
| Line Class |
Weight offish |
Date |
Angler |
| 201b |
48.3 kg |
15/3/75 |
Pamela Jean Durkin |
| 301b |
58.1 kg |
20/2/94 |
Bernadette Nicoison |
| 801b |
50.2 kg |
04/03/00 |
Bernadette Nicoison |
Angola therefore holds 9 of the 21 available world records for sailfish. The rest are manly held in Senegal.
Angola also holds IGFA records for Jack Crevalle (3 different records) and the Ail Tackle Record for Guinean Barracuda.
| FACE OF AFRICA |
Organized as well by Jembas for Angola, Face of Africa will welcome this year 2 Angolan candidates ;
Related by the Face of Africa representative: Jan
"We spent the last three days in Luanda scouting for a Face of Angola. Filomena Oliviera from MultiChoice Angola and Carla Soares from the Miss Angola Committee were wonderful hosts from the minute we arrived and their organisation was very professional. We had a casting on Friday where they presented us with approximately 70 girls.
There are many beautiful girls in Angola with great physiques, but they are petite, so we were not expecting to see many tall girls. Well, it was a pleasant surprise to see the number and variety of girls at the casting.
Since I was here three years ago awareness of the competition has grown. It used to be non-existent! The media have promoted the project well and we salute them. The Miss Angola Committee had gone to 11 of the 18 provinces to pre-scout for us. Modelling seems to be a growing industry and a number of agencies were present at the casting.
Half the girls made the height requirement and it was obvious that the organizers had been very thorough with their pre-casting. We decided to call back six girls that impressed us for the press conference that would follow on Saturday. We were due to look at more girls in the morning.
We were just about packed up and ready for the press conference when a man came up to us in the foyer of the hotel and said he would show us the most beautiful girl in Angola. We told him he would have to be quick as we were about to make our final decision.
Well, well, well...he walked in with 18-year-old, 1.78 m tall Jessica Simoes and we were bowled over! We had our Face of Angola! Our host Filomena has been a wealth of information. Angola is the second largest country in sub-Saharan Africa after the Democratic Republic of Congo. The long war has caused havoc with people's lives - four million of the country's 9 million people have been displaced by the war and of these three million are living in squalor in Luanda.
Despite all this the Angolans are kind and warm. But it is not all war and hardship and the Angolan scouting team did a great job of showing us another side of the country. Jessica's profile was filmed on a secluded, idyllic island just 15 minutes by boat off the coast.
The beaches are magnificent and with careful development Angola could become one of the best holiday hotspots on the continent."
Face of Africa Angola 2001 |
