Sustainable Development Projects SOUTH AFRICA 2012-2013 REGION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 2012-2013
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The communities and societies in which we operate will be better off for AngloGold Ashanti having been there. Sustainable Development Projects SOUTH AFRICA 2012-2013 REGION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 2012-2013 SOUTH AFRICA REGION Exciting Mining Skills Level 2 Learnership opportunities CONTACT DETAILS in AngloGold Ashanti await... Sustainability Simeon Mighty Moloko Malebogo Mahape-Marimo Monica Madondo Application criteria Senior Vice President: Sustainability Vice President: Sustainability Vice President: Sustainability AngloGold Ashanti offers [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 018 290 3023 018 290 3029 018 290 3059 Ÿ Applications are only open to South African citizens below the Mining Skills Learnership Stakeholder Engagement: Sediko Rakolote Ben Matela Xola Bashman age of 30 who hail from our host Stakeholder Engagement Manager Stakeholder Engagement Manager Stakeholder Engagement Manager communities of Merafong Matlosana area Merafong area Labour sending area (Carletonville area), Matlosana opportunities in 2014 to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Klerksdorp area) and Moqhaka 018 478 2020 018 700 2914 018 700 2913 (Viljoenskroon area). individuals who meet the Local Economic Development: Maxwell Bolani Mthuthuzeli Pitoyi Mark Till Manager: Local Economic Development Senior CSD Officer Senior CSD Officer Ÿ Candidates must be in [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] possession of the necessary criteria. 018 700 2978 018 700 2913 018 478 6268 documentation such as a valid SA identity document, Enterprise Development: Jacques Wessels Kobus van Heerden Tebogo Hlapi matriculation certificate with Manager: Business Development Enterprise Development Manager Senior Enterprise Development Officer maths or science or latest Grade Written applications, along with a CV may be [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 12 results and proof of residence. 018 700 2980 018 478 2001 018 700 2959 e-mailed to [email protected] or posted Communications: Yvette Rennie Ofentse Mpitso Ÿ Candidates must be medically fit to PO Box 681, Carletonville, 2500. Senior Communications Officer Assistant Communications Officer for whatever opportunity they are [email protected] [email protected] applying. 018 478 2572 018 478 6099 If you think you have what it takes, then send Governance: Lebogang Nkadimeng Liz Lovick Ÿ Should an application be your application before 6 September 2013! Senior Governance Officer CSD Officer - Governance successful, candidates will be [email protected] [email protected] expected to complete a full 018 290 3050 018 478 6236 medical examination, security People are the business, our business is people. screening and psychometric Community Development: Kate Dlamini Heidi Boshoff testing to determine their Assist. Community and Social Development Officer Assist.Community and Social Development Officer [email protected] [email protected] suitability for available positions. 018 700 2988 018 290 3026 Ÿ AngloGold Ashanti will screen all Community Human Dr Oupa Nkagisang Agnes Metswamere applications against its social Resource Development: Manager Human Resource Development Senior Training and Development Officer and labour plans. [email protected] [email protected] 018 290 3063 018 700 4336 CONTENTS AngloGold Ashanti Values 3 Foreword by the Chief Operating Officer South Africa Region 4 Developing and bettering our communities 6 Socio-economic Development Framework 9 South Africa Region Overview 15 Matlosana Local Municipality Community Development 16 Engaging with the Regulator 19 Vaal River Future Forum Launch 20 Community Engagement 21 Local Economic Development 24 Enterprise Development 28 Community Human Resources Development 32 Social and Institutional Development Fund 38 Mandela Day 2012 45 Merafong Local Municipality Community Development 52 West Wits Future Forum Launch 54 Community Engagement 55 Local Economic Development 58 Enterprise Development 63 Community Human Resources Development 66 Social and Institutional Development Fund 68 Mandela Day 2012 80 Labour Sending Community Development 84 Community Engagement 86 Local Economic Development 88 Social and Institutional Development Fund 93 Mandela Day 2012 99 Going beyond compliance 100 Tlokwe Enterprise Development 102 Tlokwe Social and Institutional Development Fund 104 Mandela Day 2012 109 South Africa wide social response 114 Going beyond our borders 117 2 OUR VALUES Safety is our first value. We are accountable for our actions and undertake We place people first and correspondingly put the to deliver on our commitments. highest priority on safe and healthy practices and We are focused on delivering results and we do what systems of work. We are responsible for seeking we say we will do. We accept responsibility and hold out new and innovative ways to ensure that our ourselves accountable for our work, our behaviour, our workplaces are free of occupational injury and ethics and our actions. We aim to deliver high illness. We live each day for each other and use our performance outcomes and undertake to deliver on collective commitment, talents, resources and our commitments to our colleagues, business and systems to deliver on our most important social partners, and our investors. commitment ... to care. We treat each other with dignity and respect. The communities and societies in which we We believe that individuals who are treated with operate will be better off for AngloGold Ashanti respect and who are entrusted to take responsibility having been there. respond by giving their best. We seek to preserve We uphold and promote fundamental human rights people's dignity, their sense of self-worth in all our where we do business. We contribute to building interactions, respecting them for who they are and productive, respectful and mutually beneficial valuing the unique contribution that they can make partnerships in the communities in which we operate. to our business success. We are honest with We aim to leave host communities with a sustainable ourselves and others, and we deal ethically with all future. of our business and social partners. We value diversity. We respect the environment. We aim to be a global leader with the right people We are committed to continually improving our for the right jobs. We promote inclusion and team processes in order to prevent pollution, minimise work, deriving benefit from the rich diversity of the waste, increase our carbon efficiency and make cultures, ideas, experiences and skills that each efficient use of natural resources. We will develop employee brings to the business. innovative solutions to mitigate environmental and climate risks. 3 FOREWORD BY THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER: SOUTH AFRICA REGION: MIKE O'HARE Last year we held Community Briefing sessions where we outlined our providing decent housing and accommodation to our employees. For this we Socio-economic Development Framework and engagements with the have put aside and have already expended part of R402 million to convert Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) with respect to Social and our residences into privacy rooms and family units – a total amount of Labour Plans' (SLPs) local and economic development projects. R200 million has been spent between 2004 and 2012. I am pleased to We also promised to come back to our host and major labour sending announce that we have concluded and have begun building two to three communities this year to report back on the progress we have made on bedroom houses which our employees will be able to afford through the the socio-economic development front and the approval of our SLPs by Employee Home Ownership Scheme which was agreed to by organised the DMR. labour and the company. Our residence conversion and privacy room conversion project is nearing completion and we will deliver on this in quarter Some pleasing developments unfolded in the last quarter of 2012 and the three and quarter four. Our family unit redevelopment built programme has first quarter of 2013, following thorough consultations and workshops with commenced with a total amount of R86 million spent to deliver these. multiple stakeholders, the DMR Gauteng and DMR North West approved our A home ownership facilitation model is being finalised and will be rolled out Social and Labour Plans. The Department consequently granted us the in 2013 in both West Wits and Vaal River – starting in West Wits. mining rights for our West Wits Operations in October 2012 and Vaal River Operations in December 2012. Much as this has delayed the implementation As part of our Local Economic Development (LED), informed primarily by the of the projects, especially in Matlosana, we are delighted that the company Integrated Development Plans of our host and major labour sending Mike O’Hare and the DMR have found each other and we are now on track to deliver the communities, we partnered with government and other social partners to projects as agreed. Projects that do not have the prospects of been delivered address infrastructure back log where there is an evident need for facilities, Chief Operating Officer by 2014 will be reviewed and their budgets reallocated to alternative projects, in particular on the education front. Expending the R172 million LED