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MINING News
Hatch Goba Chairman Trueman Goba received
theMcMaster University Faculty of Engineering
Leadership Award at its annual Applause and
Accolades Awards Gala in Hamilton, Ontario in
Canada on 7 May 2015.
The Leadership Award was established in
2004 to recognise an outstanding citizen who
has contributed to engineering, McMaster
University and the community of Ontario.
The university’s Engineering Faculty is rated
among the best in the world. Goba has been
instrumental in forging a successful relation-
ship between McMaster Engineering and the
University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The latest recognition for Hatch Goba’s
Chairman follows the presentation of the
prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for
Excellence in Engineering at the inaugural
South African Professional Services Awards
(SAPSA) ceremony held in Johannesburg on
30 October 2014.
Here Goba was deemed overall winner in
a category with numerous high-profile nomi-
nees by a distinguished panel of judges who
reviewed media reports, technical awards, cli-
ent surveys and organisation profiles before
reaching their final decision.
Goba was born in Chesterville, South Africa.
He began his career as a survey technician and
Canadian accolade for Hatch Goba Chairman
Hatch Goba Chairman Trueman Goba at McMaster
University in Canada.
went on to graduate with a BSc Eng and aMEng
(Civil). In 2001, Goba’s company GMA merged
with Keeve Steyn to form Goba (Pty) Ltd, which
merged with the Hatch Group in 2013.
Goba was President of the Engineering
Council of South Africa (ECSA) from 2007 to
2009 and also President of the South African
Institution of Civil Engineers (SAICE) in 2002.
In 2010, he was appointed to the first National
Planning Commission and was awarded a Gold
Medal by the SAICE in 2013.
LSE-listed Acacia Mining reports that its North
Mara gold mine has been named as the over-
all winner of the 2014 Presidential Awards
for Corporate Social Responsibility and
Empowerment (CSRE) in Tanzania. In addi-
tion to being named as the overall winner,
North Mara was also awarded the large scale
mining CSRE Presidential Award. Another
Acacia mine, Buzwagi, was awarded the CSRE
Presidential Award for Infrastructure as a
result of its investment in improving the road
network close to the mine.
The awards are part of a programme jointly
run by the Tanzanian Ministry of Energy and
Minerals and the Extractive Inter-Stakeholders
Forum and were launched in 2012 to recognise
the CSR performance of companies operating
in the extractive sector.
Potential award recipients are judged by
an independent panel of judges who travel
to each of the sites to adjudicate participating
operations on their commitment to sustain-
able community wellbeing, human resource
Acacia’s Tanzanian gold mines win awards
development and training, local industry par-
ticipation, social infrastructure contributions
and the integration of the energy andminerals
sector with other areas of the economy.
Commenting on the awards, Acacia CEO
Brad Gordon said: “We are delighted that
North Mara has been recognised as having
the leading CSR programme of any extractive
operation in Tanzania in 2014. Improving our
relationships with the communities around
our mines has been a key focus for Acacia, and
these awards highlight the progress we have
made to date and are testament to the efforts
of the leadership teams at the mines. We
believe all of our stakeholders should benefit
from our operations and will continue to work
with the communities around all of our mines
to provide further opportunities for alternative
livelihoods and infrastructure improvements.”
Acacia is Tanzania’s largest gold miner
and has three producing mines, Bulyanhulu,
Buzwagi and North Mara, all located in north-
west Tanzania.