People

Local employment

Attracting and retaining local people is critical for our company’s long-term success. We seek, as far as possible, to create employment opportunities within local communities, and ensure our contractor companies do the same.

Diversity and inclusion

We have embedded a culture of respect for gender diversity and different ethnicities throughout our organisation. Our commitment extends beyond compliance and we have set internal targets that exceed those prescribed by legislation. We monitor our progress in terms of our recruitment practices and employment equity policy. We address barriers to entry though our women in mining committees at our operations. We undertake workplace audits, and through our mentorship and informal coaching programmes we identify and support women to reach senior levels within the company.

Training and development

We continue to invest in uplifting our employees and invest around R140 million in training and development, of which around R111 million is invested in historically disadvantaged employees.

We run extensive internship and learnership programmes, as well as employee development programmes. In addition, we develop our talent pipeline through bursary schemes, a community scholarship scheme and study assistance for employees.

We currently support 52 youth in the scholarship programme and 93 professionals-in-training. We have offered 127 bursaries to qualifying learners interested in the mining, mechanical and electrical engineering, rock engineering, survey and geological fields as at 31 March 2024.