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Index toadvertisers
Alco-Safe...............................................................................7
AfrimatManagementServices...............................15
Aspasa .................................................................................31
Belaz Africa .......................................................................35
Bell Equipment Company ..........................................2
BeowolfMining ..............................................................24
CrownPublications ....................................................IBC
Doosan................................................................................10
ELBEquipment ...............................................................18
ELB Equipment .........................................................OBC
FLSmidth............................................................................27
MMDMineralSizing.....................................................32
Metso/PilotCrushtec..................................................16
TerexTrucks.......................................................................36
Weir Minerals Africa ................................................OFC
Wirtgen South Africa ................................................IFC
Leading concrete materials company AfriSam has sponsored con-
crete to the value of R100 000 for the construction of a skate park
in central Johannesburg. The skate park forms part of a unique
Skate School built by the award-winning non-profit organisation
Skateistan, which provides programmes combining skateboard-
ing and education to empower youth.
The objective of the Skateistan Skate School is to provide
at-risk youth, between the ages of five and 17 from low-income
families with a safe place to learn and play. The Skate School offers
students the opportunity to play and learn as part of the Skate
and Create programme, or to access homework help and career
advice as part of the Back-to-School programme. Exceptional
youth will have the chance to join the Youth Leadership pro-
gramme to help organise events and assist with sessions.
The Skateistan Skate School is open to registered students
from August this year, and offers weekly programmes to over 300
students in 2016, and more than 400 by the end of 2017.
AfriSam cares
Blast technology in focus
Modern technologies to boost operational efficiency – help-
ing mines to survive the extended commodity slump and
position them from stronger growth – come under the spot-
light at BME’s 24th annual Drilling and Blasting Conference at
the CSIR in Pretoria on 3 November.
Among the exciting line-up of expert papers is news of
ground-breaking progress in applying emulsion explosive to
the underground mining environment – including a portable
charging unit, a pump controller information system, and a
vertical feed system direct from surface.
This is a conference not to be missed.
AfriSam has sponsored
concrete to the value
of R100 000 for the
construction of a skate park
in central Johannesburg.
The objective of the Skateistan
Skate School is to provide at-
risk youth, between the ages of
five and 17 from low-income
families with a safe place to
learn and play.
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