During September 2020, the Cullinan mine’s Enterprise Development Resource Centre devoted time to training local SMMEs and entrepreneurs on how to use the Company’s eProcure Portal.

Participants were given assistance with registration on the portal and were shown how to participate in tendering opportunities, when available.

This training is expected to help remove barriers to entry for local SMMEs to Petra’s supply chain.

Furthermore, Petra seeks to ensure that local SMMEs are not targeted by fraudulent parties and therefore aims to make participants aware that registration on both the Company’s database and portal systems is offered free of charge and no agencies have been appointed to work with the mine as intermediaries, or to act on their behalf.