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Social capital

R245m	18.4m	23.7%
corporate social investment spend in 2009	of social spend on education in 2009	spend on infrastructural projects around our operations

Social capital is any value added to the economic outputs of an organisation by human relationships, partnerships and co-operation. Social capital includes, for example, networks, communication channels, families, communities, businesses, trade unions, schools and voluntary organisations, and also cultural and social norms and values such as trust.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Anglo American Platinum Limited (Amplats) continues to play a meaningful role in community development. Guided by the Mining Charter, its social and labour plans and its corporate citizenship principles, the Company invested R245 million in community development projects near its operations in 2009.

Western Limb community development

The municipalities in the Western Limb face many social challenges, including thousands of households without access to potable water or sanitation. There are housing shortages and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is high. Particularly in the Kotane Local Municipality, limited access to villages, the poor road network and low levels of skills are of great concern. A total of R87.1 million was spent in this area in 2009, in the community development projects described below. 

Infrastructure

Infrastructural development projects involved the following activities: 

• Provision of infrastructure for the Seraleng housing project.
• Designing and planning the Paardekraal Community Centre, on which construction will commence in 2010.
• Construction at Thlabane Primary School, which includes 26 new classrooms due to be completed in 2010.
• Renovating Tsirologang Primary School in Boitekong. This includes the restoration of 36 classrooms and of the administrative building, as well as repairs to the electricity network.
• Renovating Motladi Kgoadigoadi Primary School. This entails general restoration, building a computer laboratory and providing two additional computers for the school's administration. The school has also been adopted by Amplats under its Learner Development Programme.
• Constructing and renovating five classrooms at the Makuka Middle School and the Ofentse Middle School.
• Constructing three classrooms at the Mafenya Middle School.
• Constructing a multi-purpose centre in Mantserre.
• Constructing the Robega and Sefikile Mantserre roads as well as the Sefikile Bridge.
• Providing electricity to Machorora Village.
• The construction of the Rasimone and Chaneng tribal offices.
• Building the Mantserre tribal offices.
• Supporting the Rooiberg Community water supply project. The project was identified through the Integrated Development Planning process and with the intention of supplying the Rooiberg community with potable water, and was co-funded by Amplats and the Thabazimbi Local Municipality. 
• Upgrading various other schools, including Modise, Phalane, Mantserre and Mmamodimakwana. 

Poverty alleviation and capacity building 

Projects under this category included the following:

• Undertaking a community skills audit.
• Training in excess of 600 community members in portable skills as part of the Bokamoso programme; and training 50 learners at the business advisory centre. 
• Planning for the Paardekraal Piggery Cooperative. Land has been secured and the required infrastructure will be built in 2010. Individual community members who currently run their own small piggeries will have access to the cooperative and will be linked to the Piggery Association of South Africa. 

Education

Involvement in the education-related programmes included the following: 

• Provision of educational toys and outdoor playing equipment for the children via our early childhood development (ECD) initiative.
• Maths and science support at primary school level. This means supporting educators and learners via a service provider who assists with the planning of a learning programme, work schedules, lesson plans and assessment classes. Maths and science Saturday and holiday programmes also support best performers in certain communities.
• A one-year programme for learners from our host communities, to improve their matric results in maths, science and technology.
• Providing library books to Charora School.
• Supplying 37 computers to the Charora, Bafokeng and Mafenya schools. 
• Supporting the Thuto Thebe Education Trust, which provides maths and science support to learners as well as small bursaries for skills training for community members.

Health

Amplats's involvement in the health of communities living on the Western Limb included the following: 

• Supporting the Lifeline mobile clinic that provides healthcare services to people living in the informal settlements around the mine in Rustenburg. Amplats funds the nurse's salary, the operational and administrative costs, and the transport costs of volunteers working on the mobile unit. The mobile unit goes to 12 sites per day.
• Supporting Vision for the Nation in order to provide home-based care to community members. Funding is used to pay caregivers, take patients to clinics, and to provide immunity boosters and food parcels to those infected with HIV.
• Donating a mobile eye clinic to the Department of Health and providing funds annually to support its running.
• Supporting Sivukile HIV/AIDS.
• Supporting the Tshupe Hospice.

Corporate social investment, R million

	SED programmes			Percentage
	2009	2008	2007	2009	2008	2007
Health	6.7	6.0	6.6	2.7	3.4	5
Education and youth projects	18.4	34.7	17.1	7.5	19.7	13.6
Environment	0.04			0.2
General community development (including infrastructural projects)	105	69.4	53.8	42.7	39.4	43
Arts, culture and heritage	—	40.7	0.5	—	23.2	0.4
Housing	—			—
Other	100.1			40.8
Chairman’s Fund contribution	15	25.0	48.0	6.1	14.3	38
Total	245.24	175.8	126.0	100	100	100

Clinics bring relief to mokopane communities

Two community health clinics near Mogalakwena Mine in the Mokopane area of Limpopo province were handed over to the provincial government in 2009. They bring the number of clinics built by Amplats to seven, with another two still under construction.

Sekgakgapeng
The idea of a new clinic was first mooted in 2005, when the provincial Department of Health (DoH) asked Mogalakwena Mine to provide a primary healthcare facility for the DoH mobile clinic services in Sekgakgapeng Village. Following stakeholder engagement, the traditional leadership and municipality representatives in Mokopane allocated a site for the facility.

At about the same time, extensions 19 and 20 of Sekgakgapeng were developed, and the municipal facility and the mobile provincial facility proved to be insufficient for the community’s needs. Following requests from the municipality, the province and Kgosi Kekana, it was then decided to build a fully fledged clinic. Amplats has built the clinic and the DoH provides human resources and supplies to keep it running.

Armoede
During the Mogalakwena Mine expansions the communities of Ga-Puka and Ga-Sekhaolelo, collectively known as Motlhotlo, were relocated to the Rooibokfontein and Armoede farms. The Ga-Puka village moved to Rooibokfontein while the Ga-Sekhaolelo community moved to Armoede.

Following these moves, access to health services became a priority for the communities, as they were far from a clinic and were visited by a mobile clinic service once a week only. The new clinic serves 1,200 people at the new village.