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KGABANE JEWELLERY INITIATIVEThe Kgabane jewellery training programme focuses on themanufacture of jewellery in South Africa, using indigenousskills and traditional designs. It also provides manufacturing andmarketing support, as well as training, to poor rural and urbancommunities. Eight new jewellery workshops were set up at inMpumalanga, Cape. The workshop at Mopumolo in KwaZulu-Natal is notable forat Steelpoort was funded by Xstrata as one of their social developmentinitiatives surrounding the Project Lion ferrochromium-smelting jointventure.Eight existing workshops were upgraded during the year. A further sevennew facilities – two of which will be funded by mining companies as partof their social offsets programmes - and six upgrades, are planned for2007.As part of a DME initiative, Kgabane facilitates a skills exchangeprogramme with the People’s Republic of China. Two teams totallingscheme to date.Mintek also facilitated a platinum casting exhibition, in conjunctionwith the DME and Lonmin Platinum, at the bi-annual Electra Miningexhibition in Johannesburg.Pics bottom: from top tojewellery The Kgabaneprogramme trainingmanufacture focuses on thein of South jewelleryindigenous Africa, usingtraditional skills anddesigns.Swizzle designed sticksan African withtheme.Crochetedhandbagsby the ruralmadeAfrican women.newA furtherworkshopsevenoffacilitieswhich will– twobybeminingfundedpartcompaniesof theirasprogrammessocial offsetsupgrades,- and sixplanned forare2007.“Mintek’s Mineral Economics and StrategyUnit (MESU) conducts regional commoditybasedmineral economic studies to promote valueaddition and sustainable development throughthe minerals industry, both in South Africa andelsewhere in Africa.”41annual report 2007