Seen in the library of the new R75-million school in the Mpumalanga coalfields, which coal miner Glencore handed over last week, are Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, left, and Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg, foreground centre. The London-, Hong Kong- and Johannesburg-listed Glencore donated the 32-classroom Makause combined preprimary, primary and secondary school – replete with science laboratory, home economics facility, wood and metal workshops, computer centre and 1 200-capacity school hall – as part of its social and labour plan commitment to the Department of Mineral Resources. The project also embraces a 120-family, R70-million housing development. Glencore also funded a R2.76-million LaunchPad video mentoring facility, which links the teenagers of Phola – where many of its employees reside – to global mentors in North America. (See also articles on pages 12 and 14 of this edition of Mining Weekly.)