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About Us
Brief History
The Radue Optometrist group was born out of a long history of optometric services to the community of the Eastern Cape.
The Radue Optometrist group was born out of a long history of optometric services to the community of the Eastern Cape.
The original practice was located in Qonce (formally King William’s Town) and was founded in the 1950’s by Mr Don Parker a practicing optician.
In 1976 Dr Chris Faul joined the business and began to grow and expand the footprint of the business, by establishing branches in Stutterheim and Alice in the late 1970’s.
Mr Parker retired and in 1985 Mr Dean Radue joined Dr Chris Faul in the King William’s Town branch. The duo grew the branches by providing more regular and professional service to all branches.
In 1990 Dr Faul left and Mr Radue assumed the role of sole business owner. New and updated equipment was added to improve the service to our patients. New branches were established in Port Alfred and Peddie in 2004. A new branch was added in 2011 located in Cambridge, East London.
In 2012 Radue Optometrists expanded by way of acquisition of V and T Optometrists with branches in Vincent, East London and Butterworth.
V and T Optometrists had evolved out of Veen Optometrists, an optometric business established by Mr David Veen in the 1970’s and later purchased by Mr Mike Thomlinson in the 1980’s when Mr Veen emigrated to the United Kingdom, thus formed V and T Optometrists.
In the early 1990’s Mr Thomlinson established the Butterworth branch of V and T Optometrists. Subsequently V and T Optometrists was absorbed to form part of the Radue Optometrist group with a footprint from Port Alfred into the former Transkei.
In 2010 Mr Marnus Dames joined the group. Subsequently Mr Dames became a partner in the group and a new branch of the Radue group was opened in Komani (formerly Queenstown) in 2021 named Radue and Dames Optometrists giving the group a presence further inland.
