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Cementing a future in the mining industry
Various models of FAW trucks are working hard for a company involved in the sector, which decided to purchase them because of their torque, power and reliability
An astute businessman by any measure, modest in nature but highly enterprising — this is Mahlaka Lukas Makuwa, owner and MD of Mafate Business Enterprises, primarily a mining supply company. It supplies ready-mix concrete, premix concrete, shortcrete, sand, stone and plaster mix to mines and con-tractors in Sekhukhune district including Steelpoort, Burgersdorp, Jane Furse and Phalaborwa areas. Makuwa started his career and businesses from an unlikely background. He first obtained a degree in IT at Tshwane University of Technology and went on to work for a number of years as an IT technician at Eskom. His vision, however, was to develop his own community and this drove him to grab an opportunity to bid for and obtain the canteen contracts for Vantec Mine and later Tubatse Ferrochrome Mine. It was from here that he saw opportunities working with the mines, first as a contractor to the mines in removing stones to crush and sell on to other businesses in the area and later setting up th...
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