» mine closure and expected future legacy issues; » skills development programmes for employees; » a complaint by a resident about noisy operations at night (the decision was taken to discontinue road grading during the night shift, which resolved this issue); and » community marches to operations, as part of general community unrest, which mostly related to service delivery and issues such as poverty, illiteracy and unemployment with an expectation that the operations should intervene and contribute to the resolution of these issues.