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Vleis
Co-founder · Managing Director
Started Dele with one phone, one wall of bolts and a van. Still pulls stock when the trade counter gets busy.
About Dele Enterprises
A Middelburg trade counter that
keeps the Highveld running.
We started where most fastener shops do — one wall of bolts, one ledger, and the phone number of every workshop in town. Two decades on, the wall is bigger and the ledger is digital, but the promise hasn’t changed: the right hardware, in stock, when the job is on the line.
Our story
Built around the
shutdown calendar.
Dele Enterprises was founded to solve a simple problem: contractors in Middelburg were losing hours driving to Pretoria and Johannesburg for bolts that should have been on a shelf 30 minutes away. We built that shelf — and then a bigger one.
Today our customers include mining houses on the coal belt, structural fabricators on the N4, and the workshops that keep the trucks, conveyors and crushers turning. Some of them have been with us since the first invoice book.
We’re a small team. Everyone you speak to either knows the product range cold or knows who to ask. That’s the part we don’t plan to scale away.
Stocked to spec
Grade 8.8 to 12.9, stainless A2/A4, mill certs on bulk orders.
Where you need it
Same-day in Middelburg, daily routes to Witbank, scheduled to Nelspruit.
Trade-desk first
Phone us with a drawing, leave with a quote and a delivery date.
Local. Always.
Owned and run from Middelburg. Our delivery van knows the back roads.
From our founders
Two decades on,
one promise.
“We started Dele with one phone, one wall of bolts and a promise to the contractors next door: if you need it for the job tomorrow, we’ll have it on the shelf today.”
“The wall is bigger and the ledger is digital, but the promise is the only thing on it that hasn’t changed.”
Vleis & Ejnar · Co-founders
The team
The people behind the counter.
Ejnar
Co-founder · Operations
Co-founded Dele and built the back end that keeps it humming — supplier relationships, stock-holding and the routes our delivery van runs.
Renske
Trade Desk Lead
Reads drawings, runs quotes, walks contractors through what to bolt with what. The phone you actually want to reach.
Counter Sales
Counter Sales — Middelburg
First face you see when you walk in. Knows the bolt aisle by heart and where the off-spec stock is hiding.
Finance & Accounts
Finance & Accounts
Quotes, invoicing, statements — keeps the Zoho ledger straight and the trade accounts on terms.
Warehouse
Warehouse Manager
Stock control, picking accuracy and the reason your order goes out the door before lunch.
Sales — Coal Belt
Sales — Mpumalanga
On site at the mines and fabricators on the N4. The account-customer go-to between Witbank and Belfast.
Logistics
Operations & Logistics
Plans the daily Witbank run and the weekly Nelspruit drop. Truck dispatch, returns and account ops.
We’re hiring
Your photo could be next.
Join the team
Open roles · Middelburg
Send through your CV — the same trade desk that handles quotes opens the door to new hires.
Want to work with us, or for us?
Open a trade account on terms, or send through your CV — the same trade desk handles both.