4 February '10

Hey there!
I've missed out a few days of the blog, things have been really busy for the team at Neosho this week, still trying to manage the time well with all the new projects taking shape.
On Tuesday morning Myself and Sharon Reed took a drive through to Witbank as Sharon had a meeting at the White River Beverages office, i took the opportunity to check out the water plant and learn a little about what they do. White River Beverages ( a black women empowerment company) actually recycles water! It's not as bad as it sounds though, what happens is that, due to all the blasting in the mines, the pressure pushes water from underground to the surface. So, these guys came up with a great idea to save the water from going to waste, a water refinery plant was constructed to pull the water from the mines and cleanse it, taking out all the unwanted chemicals, this water is sold to the municipality and whats left goes through the extra cleaning processes such as reverse osmosis and is then bottled and sold! clever. The waters brand name is 4Life H20. The partners involved are Lerato (private entity), Anglo Coal, Anglo Zimele and the Smith Brothers. You can check out more info on our projects page at Neosho119.com. Wednesday was just as busy, I went with Hanolet Uys (Neosho) and Mondli Guma (Anglo Zimele) to Ratanda so that we could interview the last few candidates from the area for the Vuka Programme. The difference between the Sharpeville intake and the Ratanda intake is that the guys from Ratanda are just so eager to be helped and really seem keen to get going, we had a really good time there and the energy from the people was great! When you get the time, check out the profiles on the Neosho site.. New applications are already stacking up for the second intake, it's a very exciting time for us here, busy..But exciting!