Zimplats honours long serving employees
Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum group of metals (PGM) producer Zimplats has paid tribute to long-serving employees for many years of loyalty to the company, Zimplats parent company Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats) has said.
Rudairo Mapuranga
According to Implats, Zimplats hosted an award ceremony appreciating and honouring employees who have said the mine for more than 10 years.
The company, according to Implats, awarded medals of honour to nearly 250 employees.
“Our Zimplats operation recently hosted a Long Service Awards ceremony for 317 employees who were recognised for their many years with the company, with close to 250 employees being honoured for more than 10 years’ service,” Implats said.
Zimplats which has been leading in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the country is also leading by example CSR by identifying and implementing social-economic development projects.
Last year Zimplats upgraded essential facilities at the Mubaira Hospital located in Chegutu District. Improvements include a new kitchen block, a new outpatients’ ablution block, an upgrade of the maternity ward and the installation of a borehole. In strengthening the hospital’s capacity, the number of patients assisted each year is expected to increase from 12 000 to 27 000 and child mortality is expected to decrease from the current 55 deaths per 1 000 live births to 20 deaths per 1 000 live births. The project partners included two companies from the Zimplats LED programme, responsible for manufacturing and supplying bricks and for construction work. Forty local jobs were created during the construction phase of the project.
Zimplats partnered with the Mhondoro Ngezi Rural District Council (MNRDC) to construct a COVID-19 isolation centre, with Zimplats donating the furniture and equipment valued at US$43 000.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zimplats has demonstrated its core values of respect, care and delivery by donating ventilators, oxygen concentrators, oxygen tanks, disinfectants, sanitisers and knapsack sprayers and surgical masks to 8 hospitals as part of efforts to empower medical institutions.
The company has been instrumental in the fight against Covid-19 in Zimbabwe to help President HE Emmerson Mnangagwa for the country to achieve herd immunity by year-end.
Zimplats Management has activated a vaccination programme for all employees (including contractors) and their dependents, placing the Group on a firm footing to fight the pandemic in the workplace in the future.