Communities

Building resilient communities

To be productive, safe, responsible and sustainable, our operations must live alongside thriving communities.

They are the places our people call home, our closest neighbours, and stewards of the land entrusted to us for a period of time. So we work together with local government, community leaders, and NGOs to contribute to community needs: from housing and infrastructure to healthcare, education and recreation.

That’s why in our FutureSmart Mining^TM Sustainability Strategy, one of the three main pillars is to support thriving communities – alongside being a trusted corporate leader and to maintain a healthy environment.

And under the thriving communities pillar, we have set a stretch goals to 2030, including to:

Create five jobs off-site for every job on-site in the communities in which we operate
Help targeted schools in host communities perform along the top 20% of state schools

Our five pillars of community engagement and development comprise

Building local businesses – contributing to enterprise development at local levels to help local economies thrive
Encouraging education – creating and growing educational projects from early childhood development to tertiary level by ensuring young people are taught by competent, qualified teachers in suitable facilities
Developing skills – offering portable and technical skills development programmes to young people and those leaving our employ
Keeping communities healthy – ensuring our communities, our employees and their dependants have access to well-run and equipped health and welfare facilities
Investing in infrastructure – helping to build and maintain the infrastructure that makes our communities healthy and welcoming places

Becoming part of the community

Our social licence to operate depends on our harmonious co-existence with the communities in which we operate. This hinges on regular engagement with our stakeholders, fostering relations and forming partnerships. Based on our vision of becoming a developmental partner of choice to these communities, we also seek to understand their traditional rights and cultural heritages.

We aim for candid and transparent interactions and to create a positive legacy that will last well beyond the life of our mines. Another objective is to minimise and mitigate any adverse impacts our activities may have on the communities. The effective management of social issues is a necessary element of good overall operational management, and a source of competitive advantage.

Value distributed 2020

R5.0 billion

Total earned by employees

R15.0 billion

Total shared with shareholders

R264 million

Total community investment

R13.1 billion

Total taxes paid

R3.6 billion

spent with 314 host community and HSDA businesses

R5.0 billion

Total earned by employees

R15.0 billion

Total shared with shareholders

R264 million

Total community investment

R13.1 billion

Total taxes paid

R3.6 billion

spent with 314 host community and HSDA businesses

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Siyathemba youth centre – photography workshop

As part of the youth development programme we presented the Photography Workshop for the youth of Siyathemba and the broader Kathu at the Siyathemba Youth Centre. The initiative was aimed to introduce photography, as not only an art, but also another avenue in which the unemployed youth of Siyathemba and surrounding areas could be able to generate an income and create a livelihood.

The workshop attracted 15 unemployed youth from Kathu and Siyathemba, of which eleven were female. Kumba supplied the young participants in the workshop with 15 state of the art cameras with the aim to empower them with photography skills, that will present an opportunity to explore and create alternative income opportunities as well as entrepreneurial opportunities.

In addition, we added photojournalism and Media Writing skills to introduce them to the journalism trade and teach the youth media writing skills which are pertinent to ensure they are able to and package powerful stories to package that will tell their story of Dingleton to Siyathemba.