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KUSILE LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

COOPERATIVES DEVELOPMENT

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CLUSTER- MPG

3rd September 2013

DESTINY LODGE: NELSPRUIT

Dr Thembeka Mlauli

COOPERATIVES DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

• IDENTIFICATION & ASSESSMENTS

• DEDET- MEGA; DARDLA & MUNICIPALITIES

• ASSESSMENTS

• Proper assessments done

• Key Gaps analysis

• SWOT Analysis

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IDENTIFICATION

MANUFACTURING: Garment Construction – Skills Audit, Identification of Inputs Suppliers, Technical Drawing, Pattern Making, Sample Making, Garment Construction, Packaging;

Toilet Papers- Equipment Audit, Identification of Bulk Suppliers, Manufacturing processes, Packaging;

Cleaning Materials- Equipment, Bulk Inputs, Manufacturing, Packaging

VEGETABLES: Ploughing- with MEGA Agriculture Unit; Processing (slicing, dicing and chopping; Cooling; Packaging & Delivery

POULTRY: Growing- Feeds; Medication; Creation of condusive environment; Processing

FLYASH: Incubation & Manufacturing: Bricks, Soaps, Fertilisers 3

ASSESSMENTS & KEY GAP ANALYSIS

• LACK OF THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:

Entrepreneurial

General Business Management

TQM to meet Customer Specification

Product Development

Business Sustaining Strategies

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SWOT ANALYSIS

• STRENGTHS

Community

Multiplier Effect

Close Proximity to their homes (ITALY)

• WEAKNESSES

Lack business Skills (Ref to the previous slide)

Disagreements

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SWOT ANALYSIS cont.’

• OPPORTUNITIES

Ring-fenced Opportunities

MPG: Schools, Hospitals, EPWP, Human Settlement

• THREATS

Capital

Sustainability

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KUSILE INTERVENTION

• ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILING; COSTING; FINANCIAL MANAGING; MARKETING

• INCUBATION

• SABS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY :

Technical Training

Mentoring & Handholding

Assisting in following Procurement Processes

Proposals and Invoices

Sourcing Bulk Inputs

Aftercare Strategies

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CURRENT COOPERATIVES • THENJIWE PPE COOPERATIVE

Supplied and Supplying: Royal Mnandi, Masibuyisane, ALSTOM & EPWP

• SESFIKILE TOILET PAPER

Supplying: Mdito and finalising a large order with SANITECH

• POULTRY

Once processing plant refurbished: Supply the new Catering Contractor; Supermarkets & Hospitals

• VEGETABLES

Supplying Schools & will also supply the New Catering Contractor

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FUTURE PROJECTS • OPPORTUNITIES FROM ALL POWERSTATION: GENERATION

WORKGROUP

• SUPPLYING OF THE FOLLOWING:

EGGS

ADDITIONAL BROILERS (to supply poultry)

DRY FOODS

RED MEAT

CLEANING CHEMICALS

WATER

• FLYASH PROJECT

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ROYAL MNANDI CONTRACT (KUSILE)

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ALSTOM: CONTRACT (KUSILE)

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EPWP (MPG) & MASIBUYISANE CONTRACTS (KUSILE)

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SESFIKILE TOILET PAPER COOP

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KANGAROO POULTRY COOP

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FAMI VEGETABLE COOP

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FLYASH PROJECT

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FLYASH PROJECT BACKGROUND

• Eskom,s huge generation footprint in Mpumalanga (13 powerstations)

• Production of large amounts of fly ash during the generation of electricity

• This fly ash can be used in various applications (bricks, paving, agricultural etc.)

• Potential exists for enterprise development using fly ash through cooperatives, specifically youth and women

• Pilot to be done at Majuba powerstation, Pixley Ka Seme LM and targeting to implement it at all power stations in Mpumalanga

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FLYASH PILOT PROJECT: Manufacturing Bricks, Fertiliser, Soaps

• MAJUBA Powerstation: to be a pilot site and committed on land for incubator programme

• AREAS: Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality: Amersfoort, Daggakraal, Perdekop, Volksrust and Wakkerstroom

• Eskom Foundation: Incubator- Technology/ Equipment

• SEDA: have started with identification, analysis & basic training for the cooperatives

• DTI: 100% Matching Eskom Funding through Eskom Development Foundation- Incubator Operations: approved totalling the budget to R8m combined

• Eskom: will ensure that flyash is available for cooperatives in all powerstations

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PROGRESS: PILOT PROJECT

• Flyash Steering Committee Established, meeting monthly led by the PMU based at Kusile with the ff stakeholders: DTI, SEDA, DEDET, Pixley Ka Seme Munic, MEGA, Majuba Powerstation

• Chemil (Chemical Industry Incubator) will be the Incubator and Majuba Powerstation has offered premises for a pilot incubation Programme

• The DTI – ISP has approved the funding subject to approval by Eskom Foundation,

• The training on Cooperative Governance and Compliance by SEDA has been completed,

• Kusile is in the process of moving three prefab houses to Majuba

• Still waiting for the Eskom funding to start the incubation process

• Tremendous support from the other powerstations

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LIQUID AND/OR SOLID SOAP PRODUCTION

The Minerals of interest for Soap production are Na2O (as NaOH) and K2O (as KOH).

NaOH & KOH

NaOH KOH

PRODUCTS OUT OF FLYASH

Flyash used as Fertilisers

Used in Gautrain Project (from Matla & Lethabo Power Station (Ash Resources)

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PRODUCTS OUT OF FLY ASH

Cosmo City: Houses built out of flyash from SASOL Bricks from flyash

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Thank You