Residents in beautiful Tsolo in the O.R. Tambo district of the Eastern Cape are building the second economy and improving their own livelihoods via Harmony Gold’s BBL programme. The programme as been designed and implemented by Umsizi and SocioTech and has had an enthusiastic uptake in the communities. The future is bright in Tsolo.
Schoeman’s Boerdery has undertaken a Broad-Based Livelihoods development programme with Umsizi-STI as its implementations partner. The result has been wildfire development, with over 1000 households economically empowered.
Khai-Ma communities have worked with Vedanta and Umsizi-STI in unprecedented ways to see renewed hope and vision for the future of the residents of this unique and starkly beautiful region in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
In her own words, hear the testimony of Ms. Nziweni, a participant in Harmony’s Broad-Based Livelihoods programme, designed and implemented by Umsizi and SocioTech. The programme’s success has already attracted attention and funding from the Premier of the Matabeng region.
Schoeman is implementing a Broad-Based Livelihoods programme that has had tremendous Socio-Economic Development impact across Mpumalanga, and is poised to expand into the rest of the South Africa.
Schoeman’s Boerdery has undertaken a Broad-Based Livelihoods development programme with Umsizi-STI as its implementations partner. The result has been wildfire development, with over 1000 households economically empowered.
Schoeman’s Boerdery has undertaken a Broad-Based Livelihoods development programme with Umsizi-STI as its implementations partner. The result has been wildfire development, with over 1000 households economically empowered.
Umsizi set out to find a way to alleviate hunger and poverty on a mass scale. Through our Broad-Based Livelihood (BBL) programmes, we are seeing thousands of households able to subsist and enter the economy. Our horticulture and business strategies aim to drive recirculation of currency in indigent communities, uplifting whole neighbourhoods.
A radical Social and Labour Plan approach had been taken by ERGO, in partnership with Umsizi, to improve lives in the mining community of the East Rand, Johannesburg. DRD Gold Ergo’s broad-based livelihoods programme made it possible to bring a sustainable socio-economic solution to a community that would otherwise suffer the fate of inequality, poverty, malnutrition and hopelessness. We are proud to play a role in this initiative that changes lives for a better South Africa.
Vunene Mine continued to implement the successful Broad-Based Livelihoods (BBL) programme as part of their Social and Labour Plan commitment. The BBL programme assists people living in poverty to increase their household GDP.
Schoeman’s Boerdery entered into an economic development programme in which it has empowered employees and community members to produce profitable crops without capital investment. Their focus has been to provide all the skills necessary for sustainable economic development.