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Build the people who build the chain.
Skills, enterprise and community projects. Part of Kgolo's mining skills training marketplace. DIVE stage led: Exchange (with Discover at community level).
The Grow pillar
What it is
Grow is the pillar for building people and businesses: free courses and workshops, enterprise and supplier development, women and youth participation, and community projects that turn mining presence into lasting local prosperity.
Strategic objective
What it is for
To make sure the value chain is open to those who have historically been outside it by equipping individuals, SMMEs and communities with the skills, mentorship and market links they need to take part.
In the marketplace
What it means
Grow is the community and capability layer. It hosts learning, events, programmes and enterprise support, and feeds trained, ready participants into the other five pillars as suppliers, applicants and partners.
DIVE in this pillar
From need to value, one stage at a time
Every listing, deal and project follows the same four stages. How DIVE works.
Discover
Listen to communities and map skills, needs and aspirations.
Innovate
Design programmes and projects that fit local context.
Value
Build capability and record outcomes in jobs, income and enterprises.
Exchange
Link graduates and SMMEs to contracts, funding and markets.
Strategic focus areas
Mining skills training and enterprise development
Free courses and workshops (the Skills hub)
Supplier and enterprise development
Women in mining and youth in mining programmes
Youth Innovation Programme and early pipeline
Mentorship and coaching
Agriculture, food security and land-use projects linked to mining communities
Social Labour Plan aligned community projects
Technical and artisan training
Business readiness: compliance, finance, tendering
Community events and networking
Live listings
On Kgolo now
Listing types in this pillar: Course or workshopProgramme callMentor offerCommunity projectEnterprise support serviceEvent
Value add
What Grow does for you
For individuals
Free, practical skills with a route to work.
For SMMEs
Readiness to supply and to be funded.
For mining houses
Delivery partners for SLP commitments.
For communities
Projects that stay and compound.
Deal Room
The Grow Deal Room
A Deal Room is where a project, need or offer meets the people who can act on it: buyers, funders, suppliers and partners. Members ask to take part, SAMCA checks each request, and every step is recorded. Deal Rooms open with the Founding Auction on 1 December 2026.
Take part
Join, list or start a Deal Room
Register to get your Kgolo ID and a 14 day free trial. Deal Rooms open with the Founding Auction on 1 December 2026.
The other pillars: Explore · Beneficiate · Invest · Innovate · Trade