OR Tambo District Municipality. The Eastern Cape represents one of AGA’s major labour Sending areas and to a lesser degree, with countries such as Lesotho and Mozambique. For the purpose of this SLP and the Mining Charter requirements, focus is on the Eastern Cape and in particular the OR Tambo District Municipality. This does not mean that the AGA only focuses in OR Tambo. The company supports/contributes to projects in many other parts of the Eastern Cape and Kwa Zulu Natal including labour sending areas in Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland. The socio-economic information of OR Tambo Municipalities are summarised below. For the South African operations the OR Tambo District municipality is the largest labour sending communities. The OR Tambo district is located in the Eastern Cape; it covers 80 per cent of what used to be known as Transkei, and comprises five local municipalities as follows: Xxxx Xxxxxxx Dalinyebo Local Municipality; Nyadeni Local Municipality; Port St John’s Local Municipality; Ngquza Hill Local Municipality; Mhlontlo Local Municipality The municipality is largely rural in character with 68 per cent unemployment of economically active persons. It is estimated that 72 per cent of the population live in poverty. Community services, wholesale and retail trade sector and financial services are key economic drivers in the district. As in Merafong area the company contracted external consultants viz. Bigen Africa to conduct Economic scans on the OR Tambo Municipality as well. The findings which are in line with the priorities set out in the municipalities IDP reflecting that Agriculture is an important sector to anchor Economic Development. The following table shows the results of the economic scan which was conducted by consultants Bigen Africa and the project rating of possible projects.
