In August 2023, Afrimat Nkomati Mine finalized the decision to take responsibility for repairing the road from Mzinti to Madadeni, Ehlanzeni, Mpumalanga. The condition of the road had deteriorated to an almost undrivable state, which was jeopardizing future sales and service delivery by private trucking operators. Repairing the road intended to achieve a pre-defined set of deliverables that would ensure multi-stage value.
Deliverables Included:
- Residents, businesses, government organizations, local markets, and NGOs will benefit from the project as driving conditions improve
- The local community will benefit from improved access to two community halls, five schools, two clinics, and Social Welfare offices.
- The local community suffers from a high unemployment rate. The road repair project is employing 30 local community members who, in turn, support on average four family members each, thus positively affecting approximately 120 lives
- Local businesses are supported
- The project will make use of local suppliers for material and plant requirements, resulting in economic growth
- New skill sets were shared and practiced and in all probability, these will serve the participants of the project well by making them more marketable in the workplace, and could even lead to empowering an emerging contractor to offer similar services to local councils in the area
Achieving our goals will generate value to the local community and to our vision to support them, while maintaining a safer and more efficient conduit for product sales. Carefully coordinated and managed by Themba Duze and Christo Nothnagel, the project is being rolled out to include local community involvement and involves training the individuals who were recruited to complete the job.
