Expert Trainer
Train community members to understand mining operations.
Quality Work
Assist mines to work with municipalities and communities within mining areas.
We are Trusted
Developing Communities all across south africa.
Welcome to M4 Foundation
Registration no: 253-573 NPO
M4Foundation (NPO: 253-573) was registered in January 2021, not for profit organisation as an effort to address the trust deficit that exist between mining communities, local municipalities and mining companies. The founding members have a combined 20 years’ experience within the mining sector, local municipality area and community engagement. The NPO is based both in Burgersfort in Limpopo Province and Pretoria in Gauteng Province.
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• The Foundation coordinate all local community organizations and traditional leaders to work with them representing the mines instead of individuals approaching mines with their requests.
• Continuous engagement with all stakeholders about challenges and how they can be addressed.
• Act as an agent that handles all the mines needs and community’s needs in an orderly fashion.
• Prevent disruptions of mining operations from communities by offering alternative value.
• Take away responsibilities from all mines to deal with community unrests so they can focus on their core business and free their personnel to implement their SLP programmes.
• Assist Local Municipalities align their Local Economic Development (LED) with mines Social and Labour Plans (SLP’s)
• Youth Development and school support
The management and expert partners have done comprehensive research study in community engagements and development between different stakeholders.
The Foundation succeeded in collating data working with over 40 different mines in South Africa regarding Social & Labour Plans (SLP’s) and Corporate Social Investment (CSI).
CASE STUDY
In one local municipality the combination of twenty-two mines in the last five years budgeted and spent in access of R1,09 billion for their SLP expenditures while five mines spent a combined R22,5 billion on procurement to service providers, but community unrests and mine disruptions continues unabated.
M4 Foundation – For Mining Communities was founded to prevent these unrests and provide simple practical solutions that bring peace, social cohesion and economic development within mining areas.
COMPETENT SERVICE AREAS:
• Prevent community disruptions of mine operations by offering alternative value for communities (Conflict Resolutions)
• Help mines and communities engage and understand each other
• Bring business incubation expertise to establish and train local companies
• Fund SMME’s that are ready to provide services to mines and other businesses
• Coordinate community organization, traditional leaders and municipal officials
• Present community challenges to mines and mine challenges to communities
• Represents mines as collective entity for Public Relation purposes
• Handle responsibilities from mines to work with communities
Training of local community leadership, municipal officials and mining management on Mining Charter 2018, Integrated Development Plans (IDP) of municipalities and Social and Labour Plans (SLP) of mining operations.
• Engage local municipalities in all developments taking place in the area
• Complement funding some municipality's community projects where they have shortfall
• For example, assist with repairing pot-holes and minor requests for community’s needs, etc.
• Advice local municipalities one proper engagement with mines to benefit from SLP’s
• Local communities are very important stakeholders that engagements is always initiated with them on start of the project as we have already engaged during the project for the municipality in the last three years.
• Make communities and chiefs understand benefits the mines bring in their areas.
• Business and job opportunities are explored with locals as alternatives to create new jobs
• Give preference to local learners for tertiary bursaries by the mines
• Provide assistance to companies run by local SMME’s and get necessary skills and capability to service mines
• Bring in Incubation expertise to establish and train local companies
• Fund some SMME’s that are ready to provide services to mines and other businesses.
• Provide mines with assistance to comply with new Mining Charter 2018, especially the procurement element which could change the shape of the region and create economic growth for the entire region and social empowerment.
• Assists to unlock bottlenecks with municipalities and DMRE where needed to implement projects
• Minerals Council CEO, Roger Baxter also suggests mines engage more on: Intensified Community Investment, supporting BBBEE with economic transformation and addressing skills shortage.
Our Team
Meet Our Team
Marvin Siwele
Secretary
Michelle Dondolo
Chairperson
Moses Sibiya
Treasury