The National Business Initiative (NBI) through its Education Quality Improvement Partnerships (EQUIP) programme is mobilising business leadership and companies to make a difference in the education sector by supporting quality teaching and schooling. In an initiative to strengthen human capital development through education and skills development, Kumba Resources has partnered with Implats (one of its major competitors) for the benefit of five disadvantaged schools in KwaThema, east of Johannesburg...The programme is delivered in close and formalised partnerships with the relevant provincial education departments.