We are a global business rooted in South Africa and believe that SA’s future belongs to us all. Real growth is when mining creates value for all. By working together we are helping to build a better South Africa, one project at a time. Here are some examples:
Enterprise development
Zimele, our enterprise development initiative, was established to provide funding and support to entrepreneurs, with an aim to create and develop commercially viable and sustainable small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Today, Zimele has invested over R708 million into more than 1,500 small businesses. The fact that these businesses employ over 30,000 South Africans demonstrates the shared value we believe in and the real difference we strive to make.
Learn more about Zimele here
Empowering local municipalities
In line with Government’s development agenda for South Africa, we have partnered with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Investment Climate Facility (ICF) to help create fully functioning and sustainable municipalities in our host communities and labour sending areas.
The Municipal Capacity Development Programme (MCDP) will focus on 11 municipal sites in the Eastern Cape, the Northern Cape, the North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces. The aim is to develop and implement plans and procedures to improve municipal billing systems and controls and also reduce electricity and water distribution losses at pilot municipal sites.
Our aim is to help create cost-effective, efficient municipalities that are capable of delivering quality basic services such as water, sanitation, electricity and housing.
Adding to this, the MCDP will also focus on attracting inward investment into the 11 municipalities.
To learn more about MCDP, click here
Water
In South Africa, we have major infrastructure development projects underway one of which is the construction, in partnership with Government, of a 600km water-supply pipeline to our platinum mines, among others, in Limpopo. By doing this we will provide 1.9 million people with access to a reliable source of potable water for the first time.
More than this, we turn mine water into drinking water at our Emalahleni Water Reclamation plant, which we then make available to our mines as well as to the water-stressed local municipality.
Kumba Iron Ore’s Thabazimbi Mine has also funded a project aimed at improving water infrastructure in the Thabazimbi municipality.
Learn more about our approach to water here
Housing
Everybody needs a place to call home. In partnership with Government, we are making a real difference by helping to alleviate the dire shortage of affordable housing in this country. We engage in developing properly serviced land to facilitate housing development in areas where services are inadequate or simply do not exist.
Across all our South African operations, we have committed to build more than 23,000 houses and to convert the remaining hostel accommodation to single-person occupancy.
Kumba Iron Ore’s Kolomela mine received the 2013 Govan Mbeki Award from the Department of Human Settlement for an integrated housing project in the non-subsidy category at both provincial and national levels.
Building roads
Our Kumba Iron Ore Sishen mine spent a total of R57.2 million in 2013 on constructing and repairing roads. This included R18.9 million for roads and storm water drainage at Mapoteng and Olifantshoek, and R38.3 million for building and upgrading rural and other roads serving our communities in the JTG district.
A better tomorrow
We see our operations in South Africa as a meaningful way to make a positive impact in communities to create a better tomorrow for all South Africans.