Exxaro in partnership with the Eskom Medupi project is funding the development of a Lephalale Agriculture Masterplan. The plan will guide the Municipality in sourcing funding for Agricultural projects in and around Lephalale. Projects have successfully been launched at Mokuruanyane and Amokelani.
Farm worker of the year 2015
The winner of this year's competition was Simon Modimola from the farm Rietfontein. Simon walked away with a cash prize of R10 000. The winner in the category Game farming was Jim Makgae from the farm Grafton. In the category Livestock farming, Hiskia Mafisa from the farm Nooitverwacht walked away with first prize. Among the irrigation farmworkers, Jacob Mosima from the farm Weltevreden came out tops. All three received a cash prize of R5000 each.
Delegates from the Department of Agriculture, Agri Limpopo as well as councilors and officials from the Lephalale Municipality attended the prestigious event. The Acting Mayor, Cllr W Motlokwa welcomed the delegates and thanked all who contribute positively towards agriculture in the area. The guest speakers at the event were Ouke Jongbloed, a farmer mentor and Phophi Raletjena, the son of a farmworker turned farmer. Both were very inspiring and encouraged farmers and farmworkers to work together in transforming agriculture in the area. The Chairperson of Agri Lephalale, Francois van den Berg thanked the Municipality for the initiative and all who contributed to making this year's Farm Worker of the Year competition a great success.
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Exxaro Coal Grootegeluk
Situated 25 km from Lephalale,Exxaro's Grootegeluk open pit coal mine employs 2000 people and produces 18,8 Mtpa final coal products, using a conventional truck and shovel operation. This mine has an estimated minable coal reserve of 3 261 Mt and a total measured coal resource of 4719Mt, from which semi-soft coking coal, thermal coal and metallurgical coal can be produced. Grootegeluk has the world's largest beneficiation complex where 8000 tonnes per hour of run-of-mine coal is upgrade in six different plants.
Exxaro Coal Thabametsi
Exxaro approved the Thabametsi mine in June 2014. The mine was forecast to start output in the second half of 2017 and the first phase was planned to coincide with the development of a 600mW power plant.
Waterberg coal mine
Waterberg Coal has partnered with Firestone energy and is conducting an optimization study to review its joint venture in order to enhance the viability of the four million ton-a -year thermal coal project.
Boikarabelo mine
Coal production is estimated to begin in the first half of 2016. Resource Generation company who owns the mine, has completed its construction camp for worker which can accommodate 1320 people. It has developed permanent water supply and construction power infrastructure while building 36,8km of roads and an office complex.
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