MAHIKENG MAIL - ORKNEY: The City of Motlosana Local Municipality will soon become a beacon of hope for the North West province with close to 4 000 jobs that will be created at the newly refurbished gold processing plant at Orkney by China-African Precious Metals Company.
The plant was resuscitated at a tune of over two hundred million as part of the company’s two-billion-rand investment at its Orkney operations.
The official opening of the plant was attended by Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, Premier of the North West, Kagiso Lazarus Mokgosi, Executive Mayor of City of Matlosana Local Municipality, Councilor Fikile Mahlope and former Acting Premier, Nono Maloyi.
Premier Mokgosi said the investment was going to create close to four thousand work opportunities for the locals which was a culmination of government’s investment initiatives aimed at addressing the scourge of unemployment and poverty in the province.
“This means all our investment initiatives from the sixth to the seventh administration were not in vain. Moreover, our ongoing efforts to lure investments and address the scourge of unemployment and poverty is yielding desired results, particularly in economically depressed communities like this one,” said Premier Mokgosi.
More investment commitments are trickling in as the much anticipated gas to power project in the same municipality will be announced before the end of the year.
“Over and above this project, on the 28th of this month, we will be meeting with a delegation of business people from the Henan province of China led by the ambassador, to engage on various investment opportunities in mining, tourism and agriculture, which are mainly the three economic drivers of the province,” said Premier Mokgosi.
Premier Mokgosi further said these investment commitments come at a time when the province has recorded sixty-nine thousand job opportunities in the third quarter of 2024.
He maintains these efforts serve as a glimmer of hope in the province’s ongoing endeavours to create various socio-economic opportunities for the people of North West.
