In 2010 the latter featured amongst others pianist Little Willie Littlefield and saxophonist Big Jay McNeely.
In 1993 he started the National Werner Nel Song and Art Festival in Ermelo.
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In 1990 Gérard’d was appointed as a staff member at Hoërskool Ermelo where he founded the Hoëveld Children’s Choir.
There were vote boycott campaigns by a number of civil society organisations including Soundz of the South, the Mandela Park Backyarders, the Mitchell's Plain Backyarders Association and various communities such as Blikkiesdorp in Western Cape, Morutsi in Limpopo, King William's Town and Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, Cato Ridge in KwaZulu-Natal, Ermelo in Mpumalanga and elsewhere around the country.
Jacobsz, who grew up in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa had an interest in music from very early on in his life.
He stayed on in South Africa after the war and worked as a general practitioner in the Ermelo, Mpumalanga district of the old Transvaal where he also farmed until the end of his life.
Between World War I and World War II he was a farmer in the Ermelo in the Eastern Transvaal district.
Lothair is at the end of a railway line from Ermelo; the Swazilink project aims to connect this line to the Swazi Rail network at Sidvokodvo in Swaziland.
In 2009 Transnet Freight Rail placed the first of 110 new Class 19E single cab dual voltage 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in service on the Coalink line from Ermelo to Richards Bay.