Riaan Basson Technicial Manager

Riaan was born in Paarl. His parents settled in Parow where he finished his matric at Tygerberg High School. He then studied Electrical Engineering at the Cape Technicon after witch he started pursuing a career in computer hardware repairs.
His first job was at the Cape Technicon from where he moved to be workshop Manager for Computers For Africa Belville. Then followed Compu2000 and PCS2000 of which he was the branch manager up until the business was sold 3 years later. He then became workshop manager for Pinnacle Micro Cape Town, one of the bigger computer hardware importers. He left their employ to pursue a career in networking at IT Computing with Wolfgang Herbig in 1996. He has joined The CSS team to add a more complete service to our client base providing our clients With the best possible solution to their computer needs.
Riaan Married Sharon in 1996 and is the proud father of Chloe Ann and Jenna-Lynn. He confesses his biggest goal in life is providing a good loving and stable home for his children. He is a gadget person and has dabbled in motor racing, model car motor racing and extreme sound installations and he has one burning passion in life and that is Fast Cars.

John Baxter Ou Baas

John was born in England during the second world war. Due to the total devastation of two homes by bombs and there being literally nowhere to live, his parents decided to move and start a new life in Africa. Father arrived on a troop ship late 1946 and puffed his way to Livingstone - Mother and two young sons followed shortly after on the Durban Castle.

Later moving to Nyasaland and then Southern Rhodesia in 1951 where he completed his Cambridge Matric at Ellis Robins High School. Started work at the Ministry of Education then spent four months self-employed in Cape Town. In 1961 he joined Lever Brothers as a junior buyer moving on to management in 1973 in Durban where he met and married his wife Toni at the Old Fort Chapel. A couple of years later Juanita arrived to join John’s son Craig.

After five years in Pinetown where he became a member of Junior Chamber he was promoted again, to the Levers Boksburg factory until he left after 20 years service. During the 11 years in the Transvaal the family spent many happy holidays caravaning and John had his first encounter with computers a 48Kb Sinclair Spectrum where he learnt to program in Basic. The next two and a half years were spent in life insurance but although he did well he did not enjoy the industry. In 1982 he was invited to join a pharmaceutical group as Chief Buyer and over the next six years became involved in inventory management and his first DOS based PC an XT4086 running at 4.77 Mhz

A decision was made to leave the corporate world and the family arrived in the Cape on the 1st July 1989 and later that year bought a house in Strand where they still live. Having had 26 years experience with imported commodities he accepted an opportunity to enter the computerised customs clearing industry, which he has perused ever since. In 1993 he formed an alliance with Warwick of CSS which has been very stimulating and challenging – this is a complex industry! To occupy his spare time he dabbles in DIY home projects ranging from rebuilding engines to completely refurbishing the kitchen . Formula 1 motor racing is his top entertainment on TV.

Warwick Butcher

Warwick was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He moved with his family to Cape Town in 1969, where he finished his schooling at S.A.C.S. in Cape Town. After leaving school he studied to be a Chef at Hotel School but did not pursue the trade. In the early 70's he decided to follow in his father's footsteps by joining the Freight Industry.

He started with Freight Services then moved company and joined Hellmann International - opening their Cape Town Airfreight Branch. He then moved over to the IT industry where he supplied the Freight Industry with Customs Clearing Programs. In 1980 he met Roger Shaw of Rogertronics and Clearing Support Services was formed shortly thereafter, The Company has grown to a well-recognised stakeholder in the market. The Franchise Area run by Warwick covers an area from East London up the West Cost of SA including Namibia.

Warwick married Bev in 1979 and they have two daughters Leanne and Nicole. Warwick places great importance on family and spends a lot of his time with them. He also enjoys the outdoors as well as taking a keen interest in all things photographic .

Christian Willemse Technician

Christian was born in Bellville in late 1983. He and his parents stayed in Strand for two more years before they moved to Tygerberg where they currently stay. He finished his schooling in Tygerberg High School in 2002, thereafter he started working at Compucity as a salesman for a year. After that he pursued his computer interests by working at Lasertec as a technician and also providing IT support as well as training for new recruits. He is also studying for a Internetwork Specialist after hours. On the sideline he buys, sells, repairs and upgrades computers on a private scale. In his spare time he enjoys going to big gaming lan’s where he more then often spends most of his time fixing other people’s networking problems. He also enjoys socialising and mountain biking as well as training Bonzai trees.

Coenie IT Technitian

Coenraad, a.k.a Coenie, was born in Worchester in August 1986. His parents moved to Table View when he was only a couple of months old and he is still enjoying his time there. Coenie attended Table View Primary until grade 1 and then attended Gene Louw in Durbanville. After finishing with Primary school he decided to start his high school career in Table View so that he would be closer to his friends. In high school Coenie got his first computer. After spending some time with it he realised that he has a burning passion for technology, immediately he knew what his career choice was going to be…IT. After high school he went on to go study at CTI and passed his Information Technology Engineering course with distinction and top of his class. After CTI he started working as an IT engineer at Techtron. It lasted 3 months after he decided he was going to further his career by studying some more. He then went to Prestige Academy where he studied Computer Network Specialist Engineering and passed with very good result. Once graduating he worked at Greater Computer Software. At the moment Coenie is working with us and is very happy in his position. Coenie’s hobbies are cars, rugby, technology and partying with his friends. He never likes to be alone and he enjoys everybody’s company.