Anglo American’s Zimele programme, which has supported SMEs in mining towns since the late 1980s, is expanding into tourism to open skills and short-term job opportunities for young people — including chances to travel abroad.
Zimele’s head, Larisha Naidoo, says tourism is creating new pathways for youth in mining communities to gain experience while seeing the world, building on the programme’s long-standing jobs focus.
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