PALABORA MINING COMPANY
our community from small scale farming to harvesting amarula , a tree found only here and from which liqueur and cosmetics are made .
It also runs after-school programmes for AIDS orphaned children , clinics and job creation schemes as well as supporting supplier development start-ups . We have started a process where many small construction companies in the district , whose expertise was limited to small dwellings and community buildings , have been invited on to the mine and given small surface projects and then in collaboration with larger contractors they are brought underground to construct sub-stations and the like . “ As a result of this process we have spent large sums of money on contracts for black-owned and women-owned enterprises ,” says Fouché . My hope is that these contractors will reach a point where they are tendering across multiple mines and industries not only in Palabhorwa but across the country .
Another form of contribution towards sustainability has been to contractually define the hiring policy of semi skilled and unskilled labour . For the last two years it
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