Sibanye-Stillwater rebuilds Boitekong clinic as mine hospitals hand back to the state
The mining group's foundation has funded a renovation of the Boitekong Clinic near Rustenburg, part of a wider programme that has returned four hospitals to provincial health departments.
Sibanye-Stillwater has renovated Boitekong Clinic. The mining group published the case study on 15 October 2025, and the work was carried out through its social investment arm, the Sibanye-Stillwater Foundation.
The clinic sits in Boitekong, a settlement near Rustenburg in the North West, in the platinum belt where the group runs its South African operations.
The project forms part of a wider programme in which the company has built and upgraded health facilities and then handed them over to the provincial health departments that run them. The group says four hospitals have been returned to provincial control under that arrangement.
Sibanye-Stillwater has not published the cost of the Boitekong work in the case study. Readers who want the full account, including any figures the company states elsewhere, can find the document at https://www.sibanyestillwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ssw-foundation-ar24-case-study-renovation-of-boitekong-clinic.pdf.
For people living in Boitekong, a functioning clinic is the difference between a morning spent in a queue near home and a trip into Rustenburg for primary care. The renovation is a private company putting money into public health infrastructure in the area where its employees and their neighbours live.
The wider question, and it is one the mining industry has had to answer for years, is what happens to a facility after the ribbon is cut. A clinic that is handed over without a budget for staff and medicines is a building. Sibanye-Stillwater’s own account is that the handover model has been used four times for hospitals, which puts the maintenance and staffing obligation on the provincial department.
The North West health department has not commented on the Boitekong project in the document. The Enquirer has not sought comment from the department for this report.
The Boitekong renovation is one entry in a longer record of mining-funded health infrastructure in the platinum belt, and the company’s decision to publish it as a case study is a claim about its social investment that can be checked against the clinic itself.
