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LBW Glass (1984 -2015)

LBW (Lingham Brothers Windows) Glass, was a South-African glazier company, founded in 1984 by Lionel Lingham when he took over his father’s glazier business. In the early 1980s, Lingham, together with his father, Stanley, and younger brother Shaun, would go on to exceed the expectations of the community by receiving national recognition for their contribution in the development of the KwaNobuhle area, and again in the early 2000s for the development of the Kwa-Langa district in Uitenhage.

Notable Achievements

In 1986, the Lingham Brothers, secured their first multi-million Rand contract with the South-African Government to install windows in over 7000 residential stands in the 6th, 7th and 8th extensions of the KwaNobuhle area. This was a massive feat for the brothers at the time, securing contracts during the Apartheid era as “coloured” South-Africans, all thanks to Mussa Jeeva, who had been in a dispute with the state to allow “coloured” businessmen, to do business in the Eastern Cape.

In 2008, in the post Apartheid era, the Lingham Brothers, who now included two more brothers, Nathan and O’Neil, had repeated their previous success, by securing yet another multi-million Rand contract with the South-African Government, for the development of the Kwa-Langa district, this time for the installation of windows in of over 4000 residential stands, significantly less than the first, yet still impressive.

2015

The brothers split up to continue with their own careers after the completion of the Kwa-Langa contract. Lionel continued to teach, while investing in real-estate together with Munir and Nadir Jeeva. Nathan moved to England to study further before securing a job at Ford in Michigan. Shaun continued the business until he had personal complications in late 2015, and O’Neil started his own glazing and aluminum business thereafter.