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Economic benefits and community support from our operations are interventions that will lead to benefits for the communities and create employment. They include education and skills development, enterprise development, and other poverty alleviation initiatives.

Introduction

Anglo Platinum Limited's community engagement and development projects are guided by the Company's overall vision and strategy. Our three community development priorities are: 

• host community settlement;
• community education and skills development;
• community safety, health and welfare; and
• enterprise development.

Host community settlement entails interventions aimed at improving the physical conditions of host communities. Included here are the provision of basic infrastructure and services such as roads, water, electricity, community centres, schools and libraries. 

Community health, safety and welfare refer to interventions that improve and protect the health, safety and welfare of affected communities. They comprise road-safety initiatives, community HIV/AIDS programmes, wellness programmes, and support for orphans and vulnerable children.

These priority areas are broad in scope and address key community challenges. In support of these focus areas there are three additional CED priorities, namely stakeholder engagement, community grievance and compliants management and capacity building.

In the following sections we highlight the key issues raised by stakeholders and through our own internal processes and what is being done to address them, and provide a summary of major development interventions and associated spend. 

Development interventions and spend

CED spend

Spend on community development is shown in the the diagram alongside. Of the R118.7 million spent during 2010, R62 million was spent by Western Limb operations and R27 million by those on the Eastern Limb. The corporate office contributed R28 million towards community development initiatives. 

Key interventions

The following projects supported by the Company are noteworthy:

Infrastructure

Anglo Platinum Limited’s involvement in infrastructural projects entailed the following:

• Road construction at Sefikile.
• The construction of Mokgalwana Primary, Phadi High, Segale Middle and Tlhabane Primary, science laboratories at Raphurele, Zinniaville Secondary and Tshukuhu High, a block of four classrooms at Lerome Middle, renovation of Ofentse Primary, Makuka High, Chromite Primary and Groenvlei High. 
• The construction of community halls in Paardekraal and Mantserre.
• The provision of water and sanitation facilities at several schools and clinics at Magalakwena Mine.
• Support for the construction of Northam sewerage works (extensions 5 and 7).
• The construction of access bridges and animal drinking troughs at Twickenham Mine.
• The construction of traditional courts and offices and the construction of traditional offices at Mantserre near Twickenham Mine. 
• Contribution towards the eradication of informal settlements in the Rustenburg Municipality, which includes the construction of roads and bus shelters in Seraleng. 
• Installation of high mast street lights in Mantserre.

Poverty alleviation

Anglo Platinum Limited aims to alleviate poverty by supporting the following:

• Farmers in Groenfontein and those at the Amandelbult Community Farming Project.
• The bucket and bowl repair workshop in Mogalakwena.
• The clothing manufacturing project in Mantserre.
• Jewellery production in Rustenburg.
• Development in the OR Tambo district in partnership with the Chairman’s fund.

Capacity building

The Company's efforts to extend the capacity of local people are epitomised by the following interventions: 

• Support for the Bokomoso skills-development programme where over 2,816 learners were trained in technical skills in both the Limpopo and North West provinces. 
• Support for the development of traditional leaders in our host communities.

THE PAARDEKRAAL/BOITEKONG COMMUNITY HALL

Paardekraal community hall. Sbongile Nonga,
Abner Matlhoko, Montobedi Mathibela, Dudu Ratshefola
and Smiley Moroke.

The Paardekraal/Boitekong community lives 3 km from the Khuseleka No 1 shaft at Anglo Platinum Limited's Rustenburg mines. Part of this area, known as the Boitekong Cluster, is a settlement cluster whose development and exceptionally high growth rate in recent years are linked to the growth of the platinum mining industry. As people continue to move into the cluster area to seek employment on the adjacent mines in forthcoming years, it is expected that the Boitekong Cluster will grow at a rate of some 5% per annum.

As a result of this rapid development, the need for social amenities and recreational facilities has made itself sharply felt in the area. In response to community priorities, Anglo Platinum Limited decided to put up a hall for the Paardekraal/Boitekong community. Rustenburg Local Municipality provided the land on which the hall has been constructed; and, as the custodian of community facilities, has committed itself to take full responsibility for the facility, to ensure that it is maintained and secured for the benefit of the people in the area.

The hall was completed on 30 November 2010. During its construction over a period of twelve months, some 273 short-term jobs were created. These were spread among nine people who were permanent employees of the main contractor; 24 males and seven females from communities within the 50-km radius delineated as the development boundary of the Company's Rustenburg operations; and 24 males and nine females from the community of Boitekong.

The hall has enough seating for 1,000 people (with 600 seats on the ground floor and 400 in the gallery). It is centrally located and will be able to service the three communities of Boitekong, Seraleng and Sondela. 

Education

Anglo Platinum Limited regards education as the keystone upon which South Africa's future depends. Its support for education is exemplified by the following: 

• Support for education from Grade R to the FET levels, where schools are provided with additional learning and teaching aids and teacher' training and provisions of Saturday classes for high school learners. 107 early childhood development centres, 107 primary schools and 60 high schools reaching 614 learners who are benefiting from this education support programme. 
• Support for a mobile science centre in Limpopo province.

Health and welfare

Community health and welfare projects supported by the Company include the following:

• The construction of Jalamba Clinic and nurses accommodation in the OR Tambo district.
• The provision of a primary health care mobile clinic in Bokamoso.
• Facilities for orphans and vulnerable children at Magobading (Twickenham Mine).
• The training of traditional health practitioners on HIV/AIDS management.
• Training and support to rural women in the Sekhukhune, Mogalakwena and Polokwane areas on issues of gender-based violence, sustance abuse and HIV/AIDS.
• The upgrading and equipping of a victim empowerment and trauma room at Union Mine.
• Road safety intervention - supported Arrive Alive campaign, rollout of traffic signs in host communities. 
• Safety at School - scholar patrol initiatives, emergency preparedness training for educators and support to first-aid clubs through the provision of first-aid kits. 
• Crime and violence interventions - support of the roll-out of SAPS suggestion boxes, erected billboards, prompting community members to report crime and supported the Community Policing Forums. 

SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORIES HELP TO DEVELOP PROPER SCIENCE SKILLS

Zinniaville science laboratory.

The building of science laboratories by Anglo Platinum Limited in the provinces of North West and Limpopo has been a response to the enormous need to grow the scientific skills that are in such short supply in South Africa. North West recently commended Anglo Platinum Limited for having left an infrastructural development legacy of some 20 urban, semiurban and rural schools in the province's Bojanala District Municipality. Anglo Platinum Limited is working in direct partnership with the Department of Education (DoE), and hopes to become a DoE partner of choice in the delivery of quality education in the future.

School science laboratories and practical classes offer the following: 

• A dedicated room in which to teach and learn science, and an adjacent storeroom dedicated to the storage of apparatus required for the physical sciences and the life sciences. 
• The mainstreaming of science practicals in institutions where conducting experiments has been a rare occurrence. 
• Opportunities for learners to see, feel, touch and interact with substances that they have previously only read about. 
• A growth in confidence among learners who feel better equipped to face the matriculation science examinations. 

The case of Raphurele High School
When Raphurele High School was established in 1993, the entire school was accommodated in four classrooms and a science laboratory was but a distant dream. The school offered natural sciences and life sciences as fields of study, but most of the teaching occurred only at the theoretical level. What little experimentation there was was conducted in the classrooms. This meant dividing the learners into at least two groups per class and conducting the experiments in close succession, thereby disrupting learning and creating time-management problems at the school.

Thanks to a R22 million intervention by Anglo Platinum Limited's Union Mine, Raphurele High now boasts its own science laboratory and science practicals have become a mainstream activity at the school. A laboratory assistant has been hired to manage the laboratory and to unlock its full potential.

Raphurele Grade 12 learners better equipped to complete matric
One of the recent Grade 12 Raphurele High learners, Gladys Maboe, was heartened by the new laboratory. As she explained, "It felt quite unsafe to handle chemicals in the classroom. Now that we have a laboratory equipped with running water, we get to wash our hands as soon as they come into contact with chemicals". Generally, the Raphurele High learners reported feeling more confident about writing the matriculation examination in 2010.

Future company involvement
The construction of school science laboratories is fundamental to improving school science education in South Africa. The laboratory at Raphurele High School is one of three laboratories constructed by Anglo Platinum Limited in North West in 2010. In addition, science facilities at Zinniaville Secondary and Tshukudu High School in Rustenburg were upgraded. These activities are part of Anglo Platinum Limited's adoption of a whole school support programme focused on the effective teaching of mathematics, science and technology in order to create and mobilise the human skills required for the betterment of our communities. 

Focus for 2011

In the forthcoming year, Anglo Platinum Limited will continue to build sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships and partnerships with its stakeholders, and to contribute towards building communities that have the capacity to engage and to take advantage of opportunities. These objectives will be achieved by actively managing stakeholder relationships, understanding the perceptions and issues stakeholders have, building their capacity where required and entering into strategic partnerships in order to deliver development projects that are well thought-out and effective.

The overarching focus on stakeholder engagement will increase the effectiveness of the CED Department, which will continue to concentrate on the following: