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ArcelorMittal South Africa
Annual Report 2010
The R150 million school building
project will result in two more schools
being built during 2011 in KwaZulu-
Natal and the Eastern Cape.
The science centres have provided
an excellent recruitment source
for the company’s various bursary
programmes (see the chapter on
growing a robust skills pipeline for
more details). In addition to the
bursaries awarded by the company,
17 bursaries for engineeringrelated
technician training at the
Vaal University of Technology were
also awarded.
Amounts spent on the science centres
consists of R8 million at Vanderbijlpark
Works, R3.3 million for Saldanha
Works, and R430 000 for Newcastle
Works – a total investment of
R11.8 million.
Schools project using steel
construction modalities
The construction of the first
school, in Mamelodi, was handed
over to the Minister of Education
in November 2010. Meetse-A-
Bophelo Primary School now offers
significantly improved facilities for its
1 500 learners. It was built using the
latest steel construction technologies
and stands as a model for the speed,
environmental efficiency and costeffectiveness
of steel construction
modalities. We hope this model will
be adopted more extensively in
South Africa and become recognised
for the valuable contribution it can
make to solving housing, schooling
and other infrastructural challenges.
This school won the SA Institute of
Steel Construction award for the best
community development project
in 2010.
We plan to build a further two schools
in 2011, Sizwe Primary in Newcastle
and another to be determined by
the Eastern Cape Department of
Education. These schools form part of
a R250 million commitment from us
to improve education facilities in close
partnership with the Department of
Education.
Employee social grants project
Many of our employees do volunteer
work in the communities in which we
operate, and we applaud their efforts
in this regard. To provide them with
additional support and foster a culture
of employees who are in touch with
the communities we serve, we have
established an employee volunteer
fund. This will allow them to apply
for grants of between R20 000 and
R50 000, which will be channelled
to specific projects benefiting local
communities.
Habitat for Humanity collaboration
Our relationship with Habitat for
Humanity continues to grow with the
building of eight houses in 2009 and
an additional eight houses in 2010
in Orange Farm. A further 10 houses
will be built in Newcastle using Protea
steel construction technologies. The
Protea technology consists of a steel
sandwich panel with polyurethane
insulation on both the wall panels and
the roof. The house will be built on a
raft foundation and the technology
allows the wall and roof structure to
be erected in three days.