Tentsforafrica
Wedding in Bloemfontein

Our priority is were our client is.
Our quality and service to our client is very important.

Equipnet trading as Tents for Africa was establish in 1995 in Tweespruit, a small farming town on the outskirts of Bloemfontein in the Easter Free State Province of South Africa. The company was originally started to manufacture mainly Cargo Nets, as there was a huge demand for this product at the time. Tents for Africa began with the owner, Graham Wansbury, doing most of the work himself in his little Nissan 14 hundred bakkie. Soon the reputation of his high quality products spread and there were many requests for him to design and produce other products such as Pool Nets, Pool Covers and Truck Tarpaulins, so true to Graham’s reputation, he produced the best durable products in order to meet his client’s needs. A few years later clients began to request that he start making tents for funerals. Graham visited Funeral Parlours to research the requirements for the funeral industry market. His research was very positive so he immediately started to design and manufacture various sized tents for this market. The main concern was to create a water proof tent to accommodate funerals in the rainy season. In 1996 Tents for Africa had outgrown the factory space in Tweespruit so Graham moved to a larger factory at number 46 Gold Street in the Bloemdustria area in Bloemfontein. It was here that he started to receive requests to hire tents, so a few months later he started a hiring department to hire out funeral tents to local area. Soon his tents were being hired not only for funerals but for parties and various functions. Tents for Africa expanded and soon became recognised by other countries via their website and other advertising such as the yellow pages telephone directory, hand out flyers and billboards. The hiring department grew so large that it required its own premises and factory. In 2010 there was a large request for Graham to supply portable flooring for the inside of the tents for hire. He started to provide wooden flooring for clients that wanted to hire flooring with the tents, later he developed a light weight, durable, ventilated flooring which accommodated sport’s fields as it did not damage the grass below. This flooring has become very popular over the years as it is not only environmentally friendly but looks very good too. In the beginning of 2011 one of his largest clients requested that he start producing freestanding tents. Graham’s research stretched all the way to China where he received a letter of invitation to visit a company who produced freestanding tents there. He was not satisfied with their structure design and quality of materials. He then traveled to Germany to meet one of the top suppliers of freestanding tents in the world. These trucks make transporting products all around the world, easier, faster and efficiently.