Our approach to communities
Mining can change the natural and urban environment and impact the local communities that host its workforce, but it can also provide employment and other economic benefits in areas with otherwise limited opportunities. We implement a range of social programmes that seek to minimise the negative impacts of our operations, while maximising their positive impacts.
Our operations provide jobs for around 30,000 employees and contractors, and our significant tax contributions into the national budgets fund social and education programmes. We also seek to expand socio-economic opportunity through inclusive procurement, as well as enterprise and supplier development programmes; support a range of initiatives targeting skills development at primary, secondary and tertiary education levels; and invest in the healthcare provision of our communities.
This work includes capacity-building initiatives to increase communities’ resilience to respond to future pandemics and health-related shocks, as well as efforts specifically aimed at accelerating the fight against HIV and ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Finally, through our Collaborative Regional Development (CRD) programme, we use a partnership model to catalyse independent, scalable and sustainable economic development in the regions surrounding our operations.