Kangra hands over new community hall
Coal mining and exploration company Kangra has built a community hall for the Kransbank community near its coal mine in Saul Mkhizeville, Mpumalanga.
The R300 000 community centre comprises a hall, ablution facilities and storage rooms and was built by local black-owned contracting company Amakhabolanga Trading & Projects, with the design and construction of the facility overseen by Kangra.
Last week, the mining company, owned by mining investment firm Menar, handed over the hall, which can seat 150 people, for residents to use for formal community meetings, festive occasions and social events, among other community activities.
Previously, the community had been running its meetings and social gathering in open areas and under trees.
“The community asked Kangra to assist them [so that they could] conduct their forums in dignity, which is where the idea for the construction of the hall arose,” explains Menar Group social licensing manager Xolile Mankayi.
Kangra has also invested heavily in other social development projects, such as the R14-million construction of 23 houses for the relocation of 23 families to a newly developed area in Driefontein.
Further, the company also built ablution facilities for a nearby school, awarded mine-related product and services contracts to the local community and pursued enterprise development, learner safety initiatives and skills training programmes.
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