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5. Mine Community Development
A mining right holder is required to achieve a balance between mining BEE
operations and a mining community’s social economic needs. Mining right
holders are required to:
• Develop a social and labour plan in consultation with municipalities,
communities and affected stakeholders.
• The plan must be published and approved.
• 100% of the plan must be implement within any given financial year.

6. Housing and Living Conditions
Mining right holders are required to improve the standard of housing and living
conditions of the employees as stipulated in the Housing and Living Conditions
Standard for the Mining and Minerals Industry. The mining right holders shall be
required to submit a Housing and Living Conditions Plan for approval by the
Department. Clear targets and timelines shall be agreed on for implementation
of the Housing and Living Conditions Plan.

It is clear that MCIII contains many new concepts and mining companies and
prospective mining companies would be well advised to address their BEE
planning early. You are correct that the MCIII definitely has a stronger focus
on companies becoming at least 51% black owned but it is not an absolute
requirement at this stage.

YES to higher BEE levels

September 2018

“I’ve taken note of the new Youth Employment Service initiative issued by
Government and am very excited about the opportunities it offers to improve
the BEE level of my business. I am however struggling to understand what I
need to do to contribute and benefit from this. Can you help explain more?”
On 28 August 2018 the Youth Employment Service Initiative (“YES Initiative”)
within Code Series 000, Statement 000 of the Amended BEE Codes of Good
Practice was published in the Government Gazette and became effective
immediately.

The YES Initiative is an initiative between Government, organised labour, civil
society and young persons with the aim of creating jobs for youth. There
is currently an estimated six million young persons in our country who are
unemployed and the YES Initiative aims to address this unemployment by
creating at least one million new jobs.

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