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Stakeholders Areas of focus
Our approach
Communities
• Economic empowerment/ livelihood
• Community safety and health
• Environmental protection
Our operations create employment and career
development opportunities for our local communities, as
well as business opportunities for local suppliers.
Communities also benefit from improved standards of
living from, inter alia, the infrastructure we put in place
and welfare contributions.
Memberships &
associations
• Advancing industry-specific matters with
policymakers and other key stakeholders
Our memberships provide a forum for us to promote and
defend our interests in the broader industry context, to
learn from and to benefit from their contribution.
Further, our participation and membership in various
associations ensure that we stay in touch with current
and anticipated developments.
Suppliers
• Quality control
• Business ethics
• Training & support
• Supply chain transparency
• Sustainability requirements
We require our suppliers to live up to sound social and
environmental standards. We also know that our suppliers
expect us to conduct our business fairly and honestly;
hence establishing trust and long-term relationships.
Collaborating with suppliers to secure long-term
availability of materials and to pursue future opportunities.
National
and local
governments
• Compliance & regulations
• Land issues
• Level ‘playing fields’ for all sectors
• Local economic development
programmes
• Corporate Responsibility initiatives
• Licence to operate
• Industry-specific matters
We are a frequent economic contributor to the local and
national jurisdictions in which we operate. Our tax and
other contributions enable governments to develop and
maintain public works, services and institutions.
We proactively engage the government and regulators on
policy matters at local, provincial and federal levels and
provide support of national agendas.
Business Integrity and Internal Control
We require all businesses to implement appropriate levels of risk
management to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation,
our Group health, safety and environment policies, our overriding
business principles and Group policies relating to them, taking
into account business needs and local circumstances.
Each business has developed and documented policies and
procedures to comply with the minimum control standards
established over specified processes, including procedures
to mitigate risks, monitoring compliance and taking corrective
action. Further details of our risk management can be found
in the Statement on Risk Management and Internal Control
section of this Annual Report.
The Group adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unethical
practices, and every employee is accountable for ensuring that
our values are always upheld in all we do. A significant number
of written agreements entered into by our businesses with their
respective vendors and customers include specific anti-bribery
and corruption clauses.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development
Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
comprise 17 goals and 169 associated targets that address
the world’s most pressing economic, social and environmental
challenges. The SDGs are the result of years of multi-stakeholder
engagement among governments, NGOs and business.
The private sector plays an important role in achieving the
SDGs. We have identified 7 goals that correspond most and
are relevant to our businesses. We contribute towards the
achievement of the SDGs through our direct business activities;
among them, the products we produce and the way we produce
them; the use by host governments of the taxes we pay, the
direct and indirect employment opportunities we create, our
supply chain and our voluntary social investments.