Our purpose is to create a better future to improve the lives of future generations. We accomplish this through the metals we produce, the way we do business and through our superior performance.
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Implats has the advantage of geographical diversification and exploits platiniferous horizons within the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe and the palladium-dominant orebody located in the Lac des Iles Intrusive Complex in Canada. The Bushveld Complex and Great Dyke layered intrusions are unique in terms of size and geological continuity.
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Decarbonisation is an urgent global challenge. There are increasing opportunities to use platinum-catalysed fuel cells to provide zero-emitting, carbon-free energy, in electricity and mobile applications.
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Employee accommodation and living conditions remain key strategic issues for improving the wellbeing of our employees and host communities in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Our focus remains on facilitating the creation of sustainable human settlements and access to decent accommodation for employees who are residing in informal structures.
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The increasing evidence globally of physical climate impacts – wildfires, floods, rising temperatures – is driving a greater sense of urgency in building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate.
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In 2022, Impala Bafokeng (formerly Royal Bafokeng Platinum), sponsored 10 local community members to attend an accredited skills training programme at Thojane Farm in Phokeng, to produce vegetables. The group graduated from the crop farming training in 2023, with each student awarded an Accreditation Certificate with 80 credits for completing the programme.
Thojane Farm has provided portable skills training to our communities since 2021. The training includes 60-days of hands-on crop farming practice at Thojane Farm, under the mentorship of Dr Kgoroeadira, fondly known as Mama Kena.
To date, half of the group of crop farmers from the programme are actively farming backyard vegetable gardens, and the remainder are crop farming in tunnels at The Hub, with a focus on spinach, cabbage, beetroot, onions, lettuce and tomatoes.
This portable skills programme forms part of our commitment to the Mining Charter, to ensure sustainable communities beyond mining. The programme aims to improve livelihoods for local communities and to lessen dependency on mining activities. Students from the community were identified through Impala Bafokeng’s community engagement and development department and facilitated by the Makgotla within the host communities.