Working with supply chain partners for inclusive local entrepreneur participation

Supporting our preferential procurement strategy and mining charter requirements, Harmony’s enterprise and supplier development framework aims to achieve meaningful transformation of our host communities by integrating local black-owned businesses into our supply chain.

We are making steady progress towards fully inclusive participation of emerging black-owned businesses in Harmony’s supply chain. Our progress is evident in the growth of entrepreneurs awarded contracts by our operations. Among the most successful are black women-owned businesses, Welkom-based Tailor Made Trading and Projects and Glorificar Trading, which have grown since registering on Harmony’s procurement portal (https://www.harmonyprocure.com).

Established by Khethiwe Mothobi in 2017, Tailor Made Trading and Projects is a construction and mining services company. With 40 permanent employees (five women) from Welkom and Virginia, the company focuses on building maintenance, land rehabilitation and reclamation, industrial cleaning and cement supply. Harmony provides Khethiwe’s main income stream, which enables her to retain clients in the private and public sectors. She began supplying sanitiser to our operations in 2020 and has since been awarded bulk cement supply, demolition and rehabilitation contracts by Harmony. Khethiwe’s company is currently renovating our employee accommodation, offices, change houses and other buildings in the Free State.

Moleboheng Mokhuoa began her business journey as a street hawker selling, and eventually supplying, vegetables and fruit. She established Glorificar Trading in 2016, which now has 27 permanent (three female) employees. The business has been transporting Harmony’s employees and goods in the Free State since 2019, and the contract now includes transporting contaminated material to the Target plant, rehabilitating our Steyn 1 site and shaping rock dumps. In 2022, she became a cross-functional original equipment manufacturer transformation strategy beneficiary as a Videx Mining Products partner transporting equipment to Harmony and other clients.

On a larger scale, WBHO, our partner in the Kareerand extension project, is required to employ SMMEs from the host community and identify opportunities for local subcontractors. WBHO will employ at least 30 local SMMEs at Kareerand, procure consumables from host community suppliers and enhance their entrepreneurial skills with leadership and supervisory, financial and project management training.

Harmony also supports our enterprise and supplier development beneficiaries with ongoing gap analyses, technical assessments, vendor application assistance and mentorship.