Sustainability
Social Performance
Mining charter scorecard
PPC is making steady progress against the 2004 broad-based socio-economic charter for the mining industry:
Human resources development
- Has the company offered every employee the opportunity to be functionally literate andnumerate and are employees being trained?
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- Yes, opportunity offered at all sites.
- 672 employees were trained in ABET, an increase on 623 in 2008.
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- Has the company implemented career paths for historically disadvantaged South African (HDSA) employees, including skills development plans?
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- Yes, PPC has skills development facilitators at every site to develop annual workplace skills plans and compile annual skills development reports. Workplace skills development plans were formulated and submitted to the relevant Setas in line with legislation.
- 2 387 employees (2008: 2 293) benefited from skills development interventions, 75% of whom were HDSAs.
- Individual development plans, linked to career paths, are being implemented in line with the workplace skills plan.
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- Has the company developed systems through which empowerment groups can be mentored?
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- Yes, PPC's has to date approved R70 million in funding for enterprise development.
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Employment equity
- Has the company published its employment equity plan and reported on its annual progress in that plan?
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- Yes, employment equity reports for all sites were submitted to the Department of Labour.
- Progress is published each year in the annual report and communicated to stakeholders through employment equity forums in line with relevant legislation.
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- Has the company established a plan to achieve a target for HDSA participation in management of 40% within five years of implementing its plan?
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- Yes, PPC exceeds the target for management across the group - currently 41,2%.
- Black executive representation currently at 58%.
- Black female executive representation at 17%.
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- Has the company identified a talent pool and is it fast-tracking this pool?
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- Yes, one-on-one performance reviews, intellectual capital reviews and succession plan processes across all levels are used to identify talent and fast-track development and promotion.
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- Has the company established a plan to achieve the target for female participation in mining of 10% within five years and is it implementing the plan?
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- Yes, PPC has prioritised the recruitment of women to increase their participation beyond 2009.
- PPC has prioritised the recruitment of women, especially black females, into management positions
- Women's development initiatives increased significantly in line with this plan.
- Currently 17,6% women are employed across PPC against 18,6% in 2008.
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Foreign migrant labour
- Has the company subscribed to the government and industry’s agreements agreements to ensure non-discrimination against to ensure non-discrimination against foreign migrant labour?
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- Yes, PPC subscribes to government and industry foreign migrant labour
- A non-discriminatory recruitment policy is in place and is implemented
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Local economic development
- Has the company cooperated in the formulation of integrated development plans, and is the company cooperating with the government in the implementation of these plans for communities in which mining takes place and for major sending areas?
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- Yes, all social and labour plans have been aligned with the integrated development plans (IDPs) of host local municipalities, identified projects are under way.
- PPC spent a total of R15,6 million implementing local economic development projects in terms of the social and labour plan (R10,1 million) and CSI programmes (R5,5 million).
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- Has there been an effort on the side of the company to engage the local mine community and major labour sending-area communities?
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- Yes, arrangements are in place to participate in the development and implementation of host and labour-source municipality IDPs.
- Continuing interaction takes place in established bilateral forums.
- PPC sites participate in the mining forums of their host municipalities.
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Housing and living conditions
- For company-provided housing, has the company, in consultation with stakeholders, established measures for improving the standard of housing, including the upgrading of hostels and conversions of hostels to family units, and promoted home-ownership options for mine employees?
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- PPC prioritises sourcing labour from host and neighbouring communities
- Company housing is provided at most remote operations.
- PPC promotes home ownership by facilitating opportunities for employees to secure housing loans where required.
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- Companies will be required to indicate what they have done to improve housing and provide a plan to progress the issue over time and show its implementation.
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Procurement
- Has the company given HDSAs preferred-supplier status?
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- Yes, PPC’s supplier status to HDSAs
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- Has the company identified present levels of procurement from HDSA companies in terms of capital goods, consumables and services?
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- Yes, all PPC sites have completed the required Form Ts to identify current levels of procurement in each site’s social and labour plan.
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- Has the company indicated a commitment to a progression of procurement from HDSA companies over a three- to five-year timeframe in terms of capital goods and consumables, and to what extent has the commitment been implemented?
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- Yes, PPC intends to increase HDSA procurement to 50% by 2014.
- At present, procurement spend on HDSA companies is 45%.
- Total procurement spend on HDSA companies in 2009 was R1,48 billion, R60 million above the 2008 level.
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Ownership and joint venture
- Has the company achieved HDSA participation in terms of ownership for equity or attributable units of production of 15% in HDSA hands within five years and 26% in 10 years?
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- Yes, PPC achieved broad-based HDSA participation by placing over 15% equity ownership in black hands
- PPC has appointed two black directors from the BEE consortium to the board.
- The Department of Mineral Resources is in ongoingdiscussions with PPC to finalise this ownership element of the scorecard.
- PPC has achieved level 3 BBBEE contributor status,independently verified.
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Beneficiation
- Has the mining company identified its current levels of beneficiation?
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- Guidelines for published. PPC beneficiates all limestone mined into cement or lime. This equates to 30 times that of the mined mineral.
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- Has the mining company established itsbaseline level of beneficiation and indicated the extent to which this will have to be increased to qualify for an offset?
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- PPC beneficiation has reached the limit.
- The final product is cement, used in the building and construction industry
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Reporting
- Has the company reported on an annual basis its progress towards achieving its commitments in its annual report?
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- Yes, progress on the mining charter scorecard and implementation of social and labour plan commitments is a permanent feature of the annual report.
- Independently verified annual reports on the implementation of social and labour plans will be submitted to the Department of Mineral Resources in accordance with legislative requirements in 2010.
- Extensive reporting on sustainability and social performance indicators is included in the annual report.
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