It follows that in order to ascertain the impact of the Citizen Economic Empowerment Programme (CEEP), we had conversations with participating citizen companies, with manufacturers, who indirectly supply inputs to primary mining business partners, and we also spoke to subcontractors and to communities benefiting from the CSR.
It is further worth noting that these conversations were held independent of procuring mining companies, and central to these conversations were verification, and impact assessment and documentation of the citizen beneficiaries chronicling their empowerment path to status of emerging citizen industrialists.
