Lansmore Masa Square has showed support for breast cancer awareness through an evening dedicated to spreading the word and raising money for the cause. The hotel coffee shop, Espretto, dedicated its popular Thursday Ladies’ Night cocktail evening to a breast cancer awareness theme. Lansmore Masa Square further enlisted collaborations from local personalities and organisations to further drive the breast cancer awareness message. “Since opening our doors to the public earlier this year, Lansmore Masa Square has had the betterment and support of our community at the forefront of our minds. We continue to seek ways of working to increase our…
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MICROmega Holdings’ subsidiary company NOSA has been recognised as an “Approved Inspection Authority” (AIA) by the Department of Labour for its Occupational Hygiene Services division. Granting of the AIA status by the Department of Labour is in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, No. 85 of 1993, and includes the monitoring of chemical stress factors and physical stress factors. The OHS Act states that companies are required to complete various occupational hygiene surveys at specified intervals. “As part of NOSA’s extensive product offering, our AIA service enables us to perform occupational hygiene surveys, thus ensuring our clients…
Standard Bank and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), agreeing to collaborate on education and advocacy initiatives to maximise results for the AIDS response in sub-Saharan Africa. The MOU, which was signed for an initial two year period, focuses on community and staff initiatives, and centres on the UNAIDS 2015 vision of ‘zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS related deaths’. The latest UNAIDS report, ‘Results’, shows that the acceleration in the AIDS response is producing unprecedented results. According to the report, the number of people accessing HIV treatment…
During 2011 NOSA developed health and safety products specifically for schools and universities in South Africa. Since then 122 education institutions have made use of the services to improve occupational health, safety and environmental management. Speaking at the recent SABISA (Southern African Bursars of Independent Schools Association) Conference, Paul Londal, Manager for the NOSA Education Sector System, stated: “The NOSA Education System has been developed in response to a growing awareness among schools and other education institutions that health, safety and environmental (HSE) matters need to be taken seriously and need active management. There have also been calls from education…
Debswana Diamond Company is well on its way to meeting the 2012 production target of 19.9 million carats, having produced 16.3 million as at October 2012. Although this represents a reduction from last year’s production for the same period, the Company had to reduce production targets by 10% in June in response to challenging market conditions. In addition, production was affected when Jwaneng Mine stopped mining for four weeks in July, following by the slope failure incident. The Company had planned to produce 23.9 million carats this year, this target has been reduced to 19.9 million carats. The reduction by…
Majwe Mining Joint Venture (Pty) Ltd has started to fulfil its promise of leaving behind a lasting legacy of the much needed first class quality skills transfer in the country. Recently, the company dispatched its first group of employees, Mr Israel Monkutlwatsi and Mr. Gasebeche Kemorwale, for a year-long secondment to Leighton Contractor’s Australian mining operations. The Majwe Overseas Secondment Programme is part of Majwe’s commitment to leave an irreversible legacy in Botswana by developing and upskilling Botswana mining professionals. Majwe, through Leighton will be giving them exposure to world class mining operations. Company Director Iain Speirs is quoted as…
Hana Mining Ltd. has announced the most recent assay results received from Zone 5 infill drilling activity at the Ghanzi sediment hosted Copper-Silver Project in Botswana. The results at Zone 5 continue to contribute high-grade copper mineralisation to support the known inferred mineral resource into the indicated classification. The emerging geological interpretation of Zone 5’s mineralisation is presenting a high-quality copper and silver deposit that shows potential of becoming an important source of long term feed for a regional processing complex. While Zone 5 connects to Discovery Metals’ NE Mango prospect at depth (see Hana press release November 1, 2012),…
I am pleased to advise shareholders that the last year has been very rewarding for Aviva. Aviva completed the sale of its Kenyan gold and base metals assets by way of a sale of its subsidiary, Aviva Mining Kenya (“AMK”), to African Barrick Gold (“ABG”) in late October and has made important progress on the Mmamantswe coal project in Botswana. Aviva sold AMK to ABG for an initial payment of $20 million after spending approximately $8 million on the Kenyan gold and base metal projects since the company acquired an interest in those projects in 2010. The initial $20 million…
Lucara Diamond Corp. Has reported results of the Karowe diamond sale completed on November 26, 2012. A total of 52 lots were put up for sale containing 56,982 carats of diamonds. All lots were sold, for an average price of $300 per carat yielding gross proceeds of $17.14 million. The jewel of the sale was the 9.46 carat blue diamond which sold for $4,515,000 or $477,272/ct. Also included in the sale was a second small blue diamond weighing 0.64 carats which sold for $24,500 or $38,282 per carat. The diamonds were sold on tender with pre-sale viewings in Gaborone and…
IAMGOLD Corporation says that it has reached a definitive agreement (the “Agreement”) with the Government of the Republic of Suriname addressing future resource development and related power costs. The Agreement, once executed, will amend the existing Mineral Agreement regarding the Company’s Rosebel mine in Suriname. It is expected that the Agreement, which follows the Heads of Agreement announced in December 2011, will be referred to the National Assembly of the Republic of Suriname as soon as practicable for their review and approval. Until such approval has been received, both parties have agreed to keep confidential the details of the Agreement.…