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OUR BUSINESS

The difference between Zizwe P2E, Zizwe Bulk Mech and

Zizwe Batlase

Zizwe P2E, Zizwe Bulk Mech and Zizwe Batlase all form part of the Zizwe Batlase
Zizwe family.
Zizwe Batlase is a joint venture between Zizwe Opencast Mining (Pty) Ltd and the Baphalane
community of North West province. The Baphalane community consists of eight villages
located in the North West Province. The area spans from the Bapong area in Brits, Segwaelane,
Zizwe P2E
including the Madikwe area, until all the way north of Thabazimbi. It is also the home of
approximately 90 000 Bakwena people. Zizwe Batlase, a Joint Venture Company, is 50%
P2E and Zizwe Opencast Mining have joined forces to offer turnkey mining solutions. This
owned by the Baphalane community and 50% owned by Zizwe Opencast Mining (Pty) Ltd. The
venture provides our clients with the design, construction and operation of beneficiation
company delivers opencast mining services to Amandelbult Platinum Mine. The services
services. It will also provide product sorting solutions through x-ray technology.
provided include Drilling and Blasting and Crushing and Screening.
Zizwe Bulk Mech

Zizwe Bulk Mech is the Materials Handling division of Zizwe. Bulk Mech was adopted by the
Zizwe also has a number of other JV’s that have formed over the years to ensure maximum
Zizwe family with the acquisition of Fraser Alexander Bulk Mech on the 1st of May 2017.
benefit for the surrounding communities.
Bulk Mech operations include Discard Handling, Re-mining of the discard dumps, Train

Loading and Truck Loading. Our Discard Handling contracts are to transport the discard
material emanating from our client’s coal processing plants, to the Discard Dump facility. The
discard is then placed in layers on the dumps and compacted to ensure that no spontaneous
combustion occurs. Compaction testing is carried out to make sure that the specified
compaction is achieved.

Some of the Discard material still has value to our clients, especially in older dumps that were
constructed at a time when the processing plants were not as efficient as today. This is the
second type of service that we provide, namely Re-mining. Re-mining is simply the transporting
of discard material back to the client’s plants for reprocessing.

The final type of service we provide is Train Loading, which is exactly that, simply loading the
coal on the trains, however, it is not as straightforward as it sounds. Over/ under- loaded train
wagons can create an imbalance which can result in dangerous situations. This operation

embodies the phrase “time is money.” Train handling time (THT) is one of the determining
factors for this operation’s success.

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