Women in Mining at Rio Tinto Richards Bay Minerals
Cultivating female mining leaders, today
‘Rio Tinto Leadership – in every step of my career journey’
Sicelokuhle Ndiweni has enjoyed an inspiring and successful career journey at Rio Tinto, but she is grateful towards the encouraging leaders she has met along the way, who mentored her and spurred her on to always aim higher.
‘Arise and show up – the sky is the limit’
‘We don’t have to change’
Sbuyi Mbuyazi, Lead: Minerals Separation Metallurgy, says one of the valuable lessons she has learned during her career at Richards Bay Minerals, is that women do not have to change who they are.
‘Just by being herself, a woman will earn respect and see the results.’
Women can do anything if they set their minds to it
Muneera Adam – Manager: Cost Strategy and Business Plan
Women are strong, creative and inspirational beings and we can do anything if we set our minds to it.
RBM’s women in leadership
RBM empowering Imbokodo graduates since 2007
For over a decade, RBM has broken barriers by introducing a female-based graduate programme that aims to capacitate female students to complete an 18-month programme that consists of introductory safety training, twelve months of theoretical studies towards a Minerals Processing qualification, followed by six months of practical training.
