Corporate Social Responsibility

The Group has pledged its compliance to the Broad Based Socio Economic Empowerment Charter, as well as committed itself to Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment (BBSEE):

The Broad Based Socio Economic Empowerment Charter. The Charter has been developed to provide a framework for progressing the empowerment of historically disadvantaged South Africans in the Mining and Minerals Industry. The objectives of the charter are to:

  • Promote equitable access to the nation's mineral resources to all the people of South Africa; 
  • Substantially and meaningfully expand opportunities for HDSA's including women, to enter the mining and minerals industry and to benefit from the exploitation of the nation's mineral resources;
  • Utilise the existing skills base for the empowerment of HDSA's;
  • Expand the skills base of HDSA's in order to serve the community; 
  • Promote employment and advance the social and economic welfare of mining communities and the major labour sending areas; and
  • Promote beneficiation of South Africa's mineral commodities.

Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment (BBSEE) is a social or economic strategy, plan, principle, approach or act, which is aimed inter alia at:

  • Redressing the results of past or present discrimination based on race, gender or other disability of historically disadvantaged persons in the minerals and petroleum industry, related industries and in the value chain of such industries; and 
  • Integrated Socio-economic development for host communities, major labour sending areas and areas that due to unintended consequences of mining are becoming ghost towns by mobilising all stakeholder resources.

The Group is also currently involved in the formulation of a Social & Community programme aimed towards the upliftment of the surrounding local communities.