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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
INTRODUCTION
DATA AND ASSURANCE
GROWING SHARED VALUE (CONTINUED)
Economic transformation (continued)
FOCUS AREAS (CONTINUED)
South Africa
Mozambique
BUSINESS SERVICE SUPPORT
To offer business support
programmes that enhance
value for SMEs.
After a successful launch to the series in 2021, we hosted the balance of the four chapters in the ‘Built to Last’ webinar series.
This series included presentations from expert contributors from different sectors to engage with SMEs and provide tools
and insights to guide small business leaders on the road to recovery.
Working from our office in Inhassoro, we offer vocational training
through internships and bursary programmes. To support new
entrepreneurs, we also provide them with kits with basic start-up
tools. After the launch of the ESD programme in April 2022,
we rolled out our mentoring sessions in areas including business
management, finance, marketing, human resources and SHE.
BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE
The Secunda Small Business Centre and Sasolburg Business Incubator (SBI) offer hot-desking solutions, meeting rooms, printing/
scanner facilities, internet access and other support to qualifying SMEs, within the surrounding regions. Access to specialised
software such as Auto-CAD and Pallet Design is available across both sites, with specialised equipment for 3D printing also made
available at the SBI.
To provide hardware and
software access to small
businesses.
We rolled out several SME support services, including legal assistance; compliance services to assist SMEs with CIPC
requirements; tax registrations; industry-specific compliances and business licensing; Safety, Health, Environment Risk
and Quality; and financial management services to help SMEs with accounting services and funding requirements.
To further our efforts in providing access to infrastructure, we have partnered with Nashua as a programme implementation
partner to develop and implement a responsive approach that supports identified small businesses based in Ekandustria to
provide internet café services to SMEs in the area. In turn these SMEs will be making internet and business support services
available to the community and other SMEs in the region.
Built to Last Webinar Series
957 SMEs
participated in the webinar
series this year.
PERFORMANCE
South Africa
Mozambique
• Our expenditure with black-owned suppliers
amounted to R33,6 billion.
• The loan book for enterprise and supplier development
funding closed at R639,5 million.
• Sasol Petroleum Mozambique Limitada (SPM) is the operator of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), which is a licence holding in the Province of Inhambane,
Mozambique. SPM has been actively executing the Field Development Plan (FDP) which describes SPM’s intent to optimally develop the light oil and gas resources contained
in the Inhassoro, Temane and Pande fields. To enable the objectives contained in the revised FDP, SPM requires the drilling of new PSA development wells and the construction
of a new light oil, gas and LPG processing facility and associated surface facilities infrastructure in Temane, Inhambane.
• On average, the Small Business Centre in Secunda
is used 56 times a week by SMEs for hot-desking
facilities.
• The Petroleum Production Agreement (PPA) area is where natural gas from the Pande and Temane fields is currently produced and processed in a central processing facility
before being transported via an 865-kilometre pipeline to gas markets in Mozambique and South Africa.
• We exceeded the local content targets for PPA operations spend by US$11,2 million (actual of US$29,4 million versus a target of U$18,2 million).
• Reached 76% of our contracted South Africa-based
suppliers with Level 1 and Level 2 B-BBEE ratings.
• 110 Mozambique-owned companies participated in our ESD programme and more than US$550 000 loans were granted under our SMME fund in a ~12-month period.
• 64% of our active South African based suppliers
are 51% or more black-owned businesses. Furthermore
44% of our supplier base are 30% or more black-women
owned businesses.
• PSA contract awards progressed well. Total awards to date are US$113 million (inclusive of foreign spend), of which 80% is awarded to Mozambique companies (registered
and owned).
• Spend with local companies for the MERIC drilling campaign increased compared with spending during the previous campaign.
• Most of our workforce in PPA operations are Mozambicans. 100% of our senior managers and 98% of our highly skilled professionals are Mozambicans.
South Africa
R33,6 billion
spend with 51%
black-owned suppliers
Mozambique
R639,5 million
Siyakha Loan
Book
80% of PSA contracts
R25,69 million
awarded to Mozambique
companies
SME development
spend
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US$29,4 million
local content
spend
322 Mozambican
employees in
operations