SOUTH AFRICAN MINING CHARTER SCORECARD

 
 
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2011 scorecard for the broad-based socio-economic mining empowerment charter
                  Progress achieved by
   Element       Description      Measure      Compliance target by 2014            Compliance target    
2011
Actual
2011
  Reporting     Has the company reported the level of compliance with the charter for the calendar year     Documentary proof of receipt from the department     Annually         June 2011  
  Ownership     Minimum target for effective HDSA ownership               Meaningful economic participation     26%       15%   36%*  
          Full shareholder rights     26%       15%    
  Housing and living conditions     Conversion and upgrading of hostels to attain the occupancy rate of one person per room.     Percentage reduction of occupancy rate towards 2014 target     Occupancy rate of one person per room     Hostels 
  • Number of people sharing hostel rooms = 7 925. Objective is one person per room
  • Number of employees accommodated in single quarters (one person per room) = 3 100
  • Number of employees moved to family quarters in 2011 = 230
  • Number of company houses sold to employees = 31.
Provision of housing  
Harmony facilitates home ownership by donating land, funding infrastructure and services, and monitoring the construction of housing units in mixed-use developments (ie retail, residential and community infrastructure).  
      Conversion and upgrading of hostels into family units     Percentage conversion of hostels into family units     Family units established     Most employees receive either a housing allowance or a living-out allowance for accommodation. These allowances differ by job grading and are annually revised through collective bargaining.  
  Procurement and enterprise development     Procurement spent on BEE entity     Capital goods  
Services  
Consumable goods  
  30%  
60%  
40%  
    5%
30%
10%
15%
31%
36%
      Multinational suppliers’ contribution to the social fund     Annual spend on procurement from multi-national suppliers     0.5%       0.5%
  Employment equity       Diversification of the workplace to reflect the country’s demographics to attain competitiveness     Top management (board)  
Senior management  
Middle management  
Junior management  
Core skills  
  40%  
40%  
40%  
40%  
40%  
    20%
20%
30%
40%
15%
30.8%
42.2%
  41.6% (professionals, middle management)  
58.5% (skilled technical, academically
qualified, junior management)
  Human resources development     Developing requisite skills, including support for South African-based research and development initiatives intended to develop solutions in exploration, mining, processing, technology efficiency (energy and water use in mining), beneficiation as well as environmental conservation     HRD expenditure as percentage of total annual payroll (excl mandatory skills development levy)    5%       3.5% 4.42%
  Mine community development     Conduct ethnographic community consultative and collaborative processes to delineate community needs analysis     Implement approved community projects     Up-to-date project implementation         8%
  Sustainable development  
and growth  
  Improvement of the industry’s environmental management     Implement approved environmental management programmes (EMPs)    100%     EMP performance assessment reports are a legal requirement and must be conducted every two years. Harmony conducts these assessments in line with EMP approval conditions. These plans are amended when necessary and resubmitted to the department.

Free State operations: Current EMPs were developed in 2008 and performance assessments against these plans were submitted to the DMR in June 2011 for all operations. Deviations from targeted compliance levels reflect unplanned (in 2008) closures. As these EMPs are being revised to reflect current conditions, and the principles of ISO 14001, compliance levels for Free State operations are expected to improve in FY12.

North operations: All EMPs approved under the old-order Minerals Acts of 1991 have been aligned and approved under the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 2002. Environmental management systems are being implemented in all our North operations, with some operations already certified, to track compliance with EMP commitments. Implementation of environmental management systems at other operations is ongoing and action plans to address all high-risk impact are under way.

Environmental monitoring at SA laboratories 100%.  
      Improvement of the industry’s mine health and safety performance     Implementation of tripartite action plan on health and safety     100%    
      Utilisation of South African-based research facilities for analysis of samples across the mining value     Percentage of samples in South African facilities     100%    
  Beneficiation     Contribution towards beneficiation (effective from 2012)     Added production volume contributory to local value addition beyond the baseline     Section 26 of MPRDA (% above baseline)         

* To date, approximately 36% of production was attributable to HDSA interests.

 
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