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S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y R e p o r t

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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.