Minas de Benga Limited (hereinafter MBL) is implementing the Benga Coal Project under the mining contract signed with the Government of Mozambique for the exploitation of License 3365C. Minas de Benga Limited (hereinafter MBL) is implementing the Benga Coal Project under the mining contract signed with the Government of Mozambique for the exploitation of License 3365C.

The Social and Environmental Impact Study carried out for the project identified, as a result of the creation of the exclusion area for the operation of the Benga coal mine, the need for the resettlement of approximately 750 families residing in the village of Capanga. A Resettlement Action Plan (PAR) was prepared and approved by the Government of Mozambique in April 2010. PAR considered two resettlement models, namely rural-type and urban-type resettlement.

Families dependent on agriculture for their survival were categorized for rural-type resettlement (completed in the village of Mualadzi) and families dependent on jobs in the city of Tete or Moatize or other non-agricultural activities were categorized for urban-type resettlement (to be done near the city of Tete or Moatize village in order to protect their livelihoods, depending on the proximity of these urban environments).

MBL completed the rural resettlement in June 2013, having successfully transferred a total of 478 families to the new resettlement area in Mualadzi. The figure includes the 4 families residing in the host area of Mualadzi, who also benefited from homes and other new infrastructure. The rural resettlement has already been carried out, with the families being transferred to Vila de Mualadzi in two phases. In 2010/2011 the Capanga Mpala and Nhanganjo households were resettled and from April to June 2013 the remaining Capanga households were resettled.

A total of 478 houses, a complete primary school, a health center, administrative services (a building for the public administration service, with two offices, a latrine block and a Type-3 house for the Village Administrator, one Orphanage, a market, a water supply system and 18 more hand pumps for water supply and vegetable gardens for the community. Also included in the compensation and sustainability package of the community of Mualadzi, 1 ha of plowed land, 1 ha of unplowed land, 119,250 Meticais for the acquisition of other agricultural land, Agricultural inputs (seeds, etc.), training on agricultural practices, agricultural demonstration fields:

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