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Annual Report 2015

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ECONOMIC VALUE CREATION

2015  

INTEGRATED  
REPORT

CONTENTS

INTEGRATED REPORT

About this report

Board responsibility

Certificate by group company secretary

Group profile

Profile

Our coal assets base

Coal

Ferrous

Investment portfolio

Business model

Board review

Key economic changes

Material issues

Business resilience

Dependency on Eskom

Licence to operate

Capital projects 

Operating efficiencies and employees

Strategic performance dashboard

Performance per sustainability capital

Board governance review

Audit committee report

Social and ethics committee report

Sustainability, risk and compliance committee report

Remuneration and nomination committee report

Executive review

Broad-based value created for stakeholders in brief

Lowlights in brief

Executing on our strategy given macroeconomic and operational challenges

Review of performance against material issues

Business resilience

Dependency on Eskom

Licence to operate

Capital projects

Operating efficiencies

Employees

Mineral resources and reserves

Outlook

Annexures

Summary of remuneration received/receivable – 2015

Summary of remuneration received/receivable – 2014

Interest in Exxaro shares

Share options and restricted share awards

Mining charter performance

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015ABOUT THIS REPORT

Exxaro produces an integrated report each year, covering 
our financial and operational, governance, social and 
environmental performance as well as the challenges and 
opportunities ahead. 

We have taken a different approach this year by 
segmenting the report into three perspectives: 
•  The board – as the ultimate custodian of the company’s 

strategy – comments on the strategic context for 
material issues and key governance aspects, including 
the focus of board committees during the year

•  The executive review details salient features of the year 
and how the group performed against its targets, our 
stakeholder engagements and associated strategic risks 
(operational performance context). 

•  Outlook.

In line with our corporate value of honest responsibility, 
this report reflects our commitment to sustainable 
development, given the South African socio-economic and 
environmental context, and determination to entrench 
global best practices in all operations. It also reflects 
maturing reporting processes and confidence in our 
ability to set and measure progress towards targets, as 
disclosed on the performance dashboard. We now disclose 
key performance indicators across the six sustainability 
capitals, with targets and actual performance, for an 
informed evaluation of our progress. 

This report (only available online) covers the financial 
year to 31 December 2015, as well as key subsequent 
developments, and follows the 2014 report. It should 
be read with the comprehensive supplementary report, 
mineral resources and reserves statement and the 
annual report of the Exxaro Chairman’s Fund and Exxaro 
Foundation on our website. 

Notice of the annual general meeting, form of proxy 
and summarised financial statements were mailed to 
shareholders as per statutory requirements.

Content is guided by our strategic objectives, legislative 
and regulatory requirements, including the Companies 
Act of South Africa, 71 of 2008, as amended (Companies 
Act), the Mining Charter and the JSE Limited Listings 
Requirements, as well as global best-practice standards, 
including the International Integrated Reporting Council’s 
framework for integrated reporting, United Nations Global 

Compact, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the King 
Report on Governance for South Africa 2009 (King III) and 
AccountAbility 1000SES.

The audited group annual financial statements are 
prepared according to International Financial Reporting 
Standards (IFRS).

Materiality is determined by careful analysis of our 
risks, strategic goals and ongoing consultation with 
stakeholders. The top risks facing our group are detailed 
throughout the report where the applicable material issue 
is discussed.

Under the reporting requirements of the Department of 
Mineral Resources (DMR) for the mining charter scorecard, 
Exxaro discloses its performance per mining right for 
the review period post the end-March 2016 deadline on 
its website. Group performance against the scorecard is 
disclosed in this report (annexure).

This report, produced in English, has been prepared in 
accordance with the GRI’s ‘core’ application level, and 
the GRI G4 index is on the website. The supplementary 
report provides detailed disclosure on key aspects of our 
operations. Methods for determining specific indicators 
are summarised in the text or detailed in our glossary.

Each year, key indicators are selected for external 
assurance. Where possible, we present comparable 
information for trend analysis. Corporate activity since 
Exxaro’s inception makes data comparability challenging 
in some areas; this is explained where it will aid 
understanding.

This report includes data for our Mayoko (Republic 
of the Congo) iron ore project. It also includes limited 
information on operations where we do not have 
management control but have a significant equity interest 
or joint control, namely Cennergi Proprietary Limited 
(Cennergi), Sishen Iron Ore Company Proprietary Limited 
(SIOC) and Tronox Limited (Tronox). As our acquisition 
of Total Coal South Africa Proprietary Limited (TCSA), 
renamed Exxaro Coal Central Proprietary Limited (ECC) 
was only effective August 2015, we include limited data 
on these operations while the process of standardising 
systems and indicators is under way.

DISCLAIMER

CONTACT

Opinions expressed in this report are, by nature, subject to known and 
unknown risks and uncertainties. Changing information or circumstances 
may cause Exxaro’s actual results, plans and objectives to differ materially 
from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. 
Financial forecasts and data in this report are estimates which at times 
are based on reports prepared by experts who, in turn, may have relied 
on management estimates. Undue reliance should not be placed on 
such opinions, forecasts or data. No representation is made on the 
completeness or correctness of opinions, forecasts or data in this report. 
The company and its affiliates, advisors or representatives accept no 
responsibility for loss arising from the use of any opinion, forecast or data 
in this report. Forward-looking statements apply only from the date on 
which they are made and the company does not undertake any obligation 
to publicly update or revise its opinions or forward- looking statements 
to reflect new data or future events or circumstances. The financial 
information on which the forward-looking statements are based has not 
been audited nor reported on by Exxaro’s independent external auditors.

Ongoing feedback from stakeholders helps 
us to contextualise certain issues better for 
more informed understanding by readers. We 
welcome your suggestions, which should be 
directed to:

Hanno Olinger
Manager: Sustainability

Tel: +27 12 307 3359
Fax: +27 12 307 5327

Online device: +27 83 609 1094

Email: hanno.olinger@exxaro.com

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015BOARD RESPONSIBILITY

The board acknowledges its responsibility for the integrity of Exxaro’s integrated and supplementary reports. Although 
the process of integrated reporting is still evolving, we have integrated all the elements of our business and aligned this 
report with the international integrated reporting framework. Continuous efforts are made to incorporate best practice 
and improve our level of reporting, including an independent assessment of key aspects of sustainability reporting and 
disclosure by PricewaterhouseCoopers Incorporated (PwC).

The board reviewed and approved the content of the integrated report and accompanying statutory information  
(mailed to shareholders) prior to publication.

Len Konar 
Chairman  

15 April 2016

Mxolisi Mgojo
Chief executive officer 

CERTIFICATE BY GROUP 
COMPANY SECRETARY 

In terms of section 88(2)(e) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, as amended (Companies Act), I, CH Wessels, in my capacity 
as group company secretary, confirm that, to the best of my knowledge, for the year ended 31 December 2015, Exxaro 
Resources Limited (Exxaro) has filed with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission all such returns and notices 
as required of a public company in terms of the Companies Act and that all such returns and notices appear to be true, 
correct and up to date.

Carina Wessels
Group company secretary

Pretoria

15 April 2016

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015 
 
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GROUP  
PROFILE

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015GROUP PROFILE

PROFILE
Exxaro is one of the largest and foremost black-owned, South Africa-based diversified resources companies, with current 
business interests in South Africa, Europe, Republic of the Congo and United States of America. It is listed on the JSE 
and has long been part of the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) index, which was reconstituted as the FTSE/JSE 
Responsible Investment index in 2015. 

Exxaro produced 42 million tonnes of coal per annum (Mtpa) (2014: 39Mtpa), reflecting contributions from the completed 
expansion of our flagship Grootegeluk mine and acquisition of TCSA, renamed ECC.

At 31 December 2015, Exxaro had assets of R52,6 billion and a market capitalisation of R15,8 billion (US$10 billion). 
Although just nine years old, Exxaro’s pedigree and skills were built over decades as a company rooted in South Africa and 
respected by its peers for its innovation, ethics and integrity.

Based on a well-executed strategy, solid returns, access to funds and quality resources, Exxaro is a unique listed 
investment opportunity into its chosen commodities.

Dreamvision 
Investments 
Proprietary Limited

54,1%

Morningtide 
Investments 168 
Proprietary Limited 
(KagisoTiso)

9,7%

Capital Consortium 
Proprietary Limited 
(Eyabantu)

Basadi Ba Kopane 
Investments  
Proprietary Limited

9,7%

11,2%

Industrial Development 
Corporation Limited

15,3%

OUR OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE

 Main Street 333 
Proprietary Limited 
(BEE Holdco)

Anglo American plc1

Exxaro Mpower

Minorities  
(free- float)

Other non-public 
shareholders

52,09%

9,70%

0,77%

37,27%

0,17%

INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO

TRONOX 
44%

MAFUBE 50:50  
with Anglo

CENNERGI 
50:50 with  
Tata Power

BLACK MOUNTAIN 
26%

Titanium dioxide, 
pigment and Alkali 
chemicals

Coal

Wind
energy

Zinc

SIOC 
20% 

Iron
ore

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1.  Held through Anglo South Africa Capital Proprietary Limited.

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015OUR COAL ASSETS BASE
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT’S FOCUS/MESSAGES (CONTINUED)

ZONDERWATER

Location

West of Lephalale

Project stage

Concept phase

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Thermal coal

22,7Mt indicated

BOTSWANA

Not yet declared

Mining method

Underground

GROOTEGELUK

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Run of mine

Life of mine

West of Lephalale

Domestic and export

Thermal, metallurgical and 
coking coal

3 298Mt measured, 
983Mt indicated

2 678Mt proved; 
537Mt probable

Open-cut

45,3Mt

30+ years

•  LEPHALALE

THABAMETSI

Location

West of Lephalale

Project stage

Feasibility concluded

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Thermal coal

270Mt measured; 
749Mt indicated

109Mt proved;
21Mt probable

Open-cut and 
underground

Life of mine

30+ years

LEEUWPAN

Location

South-east of Delmas

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Run of mine

Life of mine

Domestic and export

Thermal and 
metallurgical coal

146,7Mt measured

18,7Mt proved; 
80,5Mt probable

Open-cut and 
underground

3,8Mt

14 years

ELOFF (51%)

Location

South-west of Delmas

Project stage

Concept phase

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Thermal coal

10Mt measured; 
239Mt indicated

Not yet declared

Open-cut and 
underground

â
N

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

MATLA

West of Kriel

Domestic (Eskom)

Thermal coal

516Mt measured; 
255Mt indicated

188Mt proved; 
69Mt probable

Mining method

Underground

Run of mine

Life of mine

15,7Mt

10+ years

NORTH WEST  

PRETORIA  • 

GAUTENG 

DORSTFONTEIN COMPLEX (74%)

JOHANNESBURG •  

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Run of mine

West of Kriel

Export

Thermal coal

94Mt measured; 
47Mt indicated

12,2Mt proved; 
8,1Mt probable

Open-cut and 
underground

4,2Mt

Only mineral assets with measured and indicated resources are illustrated. Inferred resources are reported in the 
supplementary consolidated mineral resources and reserves report (CMRR).

FREE STATE  

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015LIMPOPO

TSHIKONDENI*

ZIMBABWE

INYANDA*

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Run of mine

Life of mine

North of 
eMalahleni

Export

Thermal coal

Resources 
depleted

Reserves 
depleted

Open-cut

1,5Mt

Reached end of 
life in 2015

•  POLOKWANE

TUMELO (49%)

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

North-west of 
Hendrina

Export

Thermal coal

6Mt measured

Location

Product

Market 

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserve

East of Mutale

Coking coal

Domestic 
(ArcelorMittal)

28,8Mt

0 mine closure

Mining method

Underground

Run of mine

Life of mine

0,3Mt

Reached end of 
life in 2014

MAFUBE (50%)

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

East of 
Middelburg

Domestic and 
export

Thermal coal

164Mt measured; 
13Mt indicated

2,5Mt proved; 
120Mt probable

Mining method

Open-cut

MOZAMBIQUE

NORTH BLOCK COMPLEX

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Run of mine

Life of mine

West of Belfast

Domestic

Thermal coal

23,4Mt 
measured

9,2Mt proved

Open-cut

2,8Mt

2 years

GLISA SOUTH

Location

West of Belfast

Project stage

Prefeasibility phase

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Thermal coal

20Mt measured; 
47Mt indicated

Not yet declared

Open-cut

Reserves

Not yet declared

Run of mine

3,7Mt

Reserves

Mining method

Underground

Life of mine

17 years

Mining method

The mine is under care and maintenance.

PRETORIA  • 

MPUMALANGA

•  EMALAHLENI

ARNOT* 

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Run of mine

Life of mine

South of Middelburg

Domestic (Eskom)

Thermal coal

138,5Mt measured; 
64,3Mt indicated

17,9Mt probable

Open-cut and 
underground

1,4Mt

8 years

The coal supply agreement with Eskom was terminated 
on 31 December 2015.

FORZANDO COMPLEX (74%)

Location

Market

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

North of Bethal

Export

Thermal coal

57Mt measured; 
38Mt indicated

7Mt proved; 
4,5Mt probable

Mining method

Underground

Run of mine

2,1Mt

SWAZILAND

BELFAST

Location

South of Belfast

Project stage

Feasibility concluded

Product

Resources 
(inclusive)

Reserves

Mining method

Life of mine

Thermal coal

81Mt measured; 
22,4Mt indicated

45,7Mt proved

Open-cut

17 years

KWAZULU-NATAL

*In closure

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015GROUP PROFILE (CONTINUED)

Coal
•  Eight managed coal mines produced 42Mtpa of power 
station, steam and coking coal, up 7% on 2014. Most 
power station coal is supplied to the national power 
utility, Eskom

•  In current market conditions, our char plant has been 

placed on care-and-maintenance

•  Robust pipeline of greenfield and brownfield expansion 

projects:
–  The R3 billion Belfast mine is scheduled to be 

commissioned by 2018, depending on the water 
tribunal’s progress with a current licence appeal and 
rezoning objection to enable construction to begin 
mid-2016. At full capacity the mine will deliver around 
2,2Mtpa of export steam coal and 500 kilo tonnes per 
annum (ktpa) of power station coal

–  The bankable feasibility study for the opencast 

Thabametsi mine was completed by the end of 2014, 
and the integrated water use licence approved in 
January 2016, although an appeal has been lodged. 
Construction of the coal independent power-station 
plant by partners from Korea and Japan is planned 
for 2016. Thabametsi mine is projected to produce 
an average of 4Mtpa in power station coal for the 
independent power plant which, in turn, is expected 
to produce 600 megawatts (MW) by 2021.

7,0

5,0

2,5

Measured

Indicated

Inferred

Exxaro attributable resources – 
14,5 billion tonnes

Strong South African presence and market: 
–  Solid resource base – the biggest locally 
–  Resources in the Waterberg provide many 

growth opportunities and play a major part  
in our plans

Grootegeluk is one of the most efficient mining 
operations in the world, and runs the world’s 
largest coal-beneficiation complex. It is the 
only producing mine in the coal-rich Waterberg, 
adjacent to Eskom’s existing Matimba and new 
Medupi power stations

Ferrous 
•  FerroAlloys produces gas-atomised ferrosilicon for use 

in dense medium separation plants

•  Mayoko iron ore project remains on care-and-

maintenance and current actions are limited to security 
of the mining convention

Investment portfolio
•  Iron ore: 20% of SIOC, a leading supplier of high-quality 
iron ore to the global steel industry, and a subsidiary of 
the listed Kumba Iron Ore Limited (KIO) 

•  Titanium dioxide, pigments and chemicals: 26% direct 

interest in both KZN Sands and Namakwa Sands, as well 
as 44% of US-listed Tronox, a global leader in mining, 
production and marketing inorganic minerals and 
chemicals. Tronox operates two vertically integrated 
businesses: titanium dioxide (TiO2) and Alkali chemicals. 
Tronox owns the balance in KZN Sands and Namakwa 
Sands, other titanium dioxide interests outside South 
Africa and the Alkali chemicals business in the USA

•  Renewable energy: Exxaro will be contributing to 
national energy supply through Cennergi, its joint 
venture with Tata Power. Two wind projects are under 
way in the Eastern Cape, both on track and in line 
with budget:
–  Amakhala Emoyeni near Bedford (139MW) – 

completion planned for mid-2016, with commercial 
operation in the third quarter of 2016

–  Tsitsikamma Community wind farm on Mfengu 

community land (95MW) – construction completed in 
the final quarter of 2015, with commercial operation 
beginning once the Eskom grid connection is 
completed

•  Coal: Mafube – 50/50 coal joint venture with Anglo 

American in Mpumalanga

•  Zinc: 26% of Black Mountain, subsidiary of Vedanta in 

the Northern Cape.

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015GROUP PROFILE (CONTINUED)

EXXARO’S BUSINESS MODEL

STAKEHOLDER VALUE CREATION

MAXIMISE OPERATIONAL OUTPUT OPTIMISE INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO MINIMISE COSTS

NATURAL

HUMAN

SOCIAL

INTELLECTUAL

MANUFACTURED

FINANCIAL

RESOURCE   >>>>>    CLOSURE   >>>>>    REHABILITATION

MINERAL 
RESOURCE 
ACQUISITION

MINING AND 
RESOURCE 
MANAGEMENT

METALLURGICAL 
AND  
BENEFICIATION

MARKET

MINE 
REHABILITATION

Management and leadership, technology and innovation, 
project management, mineral resource 
management, sustainability beyond life 
of mine, hire to retain, procure 
to pay, record to report

PURPOSE

STRATEGY

INPUTS

MINING 
VALUE  
CHAIN

ENABLERS

OUTCOMES

NATURAL

HUMAN

SOCIAL

INTELLECTUAL

MANUFACTURED

FINANCIAL

PHILOSOPHY

VALUES, CULTURE, ETHICS, GOVERNANCE, STAKEHOLDERS

VEHICLES

OWNERSHIP, INVESTMENTS, PARTNERSHIPS

BUSINESS MODEL PDF AVAILABLE ON THE WEB

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 201502
BOARD
REVIEW

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015BOARD REVIEW

As the board we have ultimate accountability for the company’s strategy and oversight of the business and we collectively 
report to our stakeholders.

In this board review for 2015, we highlight the material issues we grappled with in the period and some of our key 
deliberations and developments, while the executive review deals with our performance during the period.

Executive

MDM Mgojo – Mxolisi (55)
Chief executive officer from 1 April 2016

Director since 4 June 2015
BSc (hons) (energy studies), MBA, advanced management programme (Wharton)

Experience: Previously at Eyesizwe Coal, Mxolisi was responsible for marketing and 
logistics. After Exxaro’s formation, he managed the base metals and industrial minerals 
commodity business before being appointed to head our coal operations from 2008. 
He was appointed CEO (designate) from 1 May 2015 and CEO from 1 April 2016.

SA Nkosi – Sipho (61)
Chief executive officer until 31 March 2016

Director since 28 November 2006
BCom (hons) (economics), MBA (Mass, USA), diploma in marketing management 
(Unisa), advanced management leadership programme (Oxford)

Experience: After 20 years in the industrial and mining sectors, Sipho was a 
founder of Eyesizwe Holdings and served as chief executive officer before its 
merger into Exxaro in 2006. He was appointed CEO of Exxaro in September 2007. 
Sipho is a director of a number of companies, including Sanlam Limited, and served 
as president of the Chamber of Mines from 2007 to 2010. 

WA de Klerk – Wim (52)
Finance director

Director since 1 March 2009
BCom (hons) (accounting), CA(SA), executive management programme (Darden), 
strategic marketing diploma (Harvard)

Experience: Wim joined Iscor in 1996, managing Iscor Quarries and the Grootegeluk 
Coal mine before joining the executive team as group general manager for strategy 
and continuous improvement in 1999. After Kumba’s inception in 2001, he headed 
the mineral sands operations and, when Exxaro listed in 2006, he was executive 
general manager for mineral sands and base metals until his appointment as 
finance director in 2009. Wim will be separating from the company in August 2016 
to take over as CEO for ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited (AMSA).

S Dakile-Hlongwane – Salukazi (65) 
Independent non-executive director, member of social and ethics, and 
sustainability, risk and compliance committees

Director since 21 February 2012
BA (economics and statistics), MA (development economics)

Experience: Salukazi is chairman of Nozala Investments, which she co-founded 
in 1996. She has extensive experience in development finance, structured and 
specialised finance. She is a non-executive director of Nozala investee companies 
including Basadi Ba Kopane Proprietary Limited, Woodlands Dairy Proprietary 
Limited and Tsebo Outsourcing Group Proprietary Limited. She is also a non-
executive director of MultiChoice South Africa Holdings Limited and a trustee of 
Nozala Trust, Chancellor House Trust and the National Movement of Rural Women.

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Non-executive

EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015BOARD REVIEW (CONTINUED)

Dr CJ Fauconnier – Con (68) 
Independent non-executive director, chairman of sustainability, risk and compliance 
and remuneration and nomination committees, member of audit and social and 
ethics committees

Director since 1 November 2013
BSc (eng) (mining), BSc (hons) (engineering), MSc (eng), DEng (Pretoria), 
MBA (Oregon), DSc (honoris causa)(Free State), strategic leadership programme 
(Oxford), senior executive finance programme (Oxford), registered international 
professional engineer

Experience: For 32 years, Con worked for various mining companies, lastly as 
managing director of Iscor Mining. In 2001, he was appointed chief executive of 
Kumba Resources Limited and, in 2006, as CEO of Exxaro Resources Limited. 
He served on the executive council of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and 
was president from 2003 to 2005. He is a fellow of the South African Institute of 
Mining & Metallurgy, Institute of Directors of Southern Africa and South African 
Academy of Engineering. Con has been an honorary professor in the department of 
mining engineering at the University of Pretoria and a fellow at the Gordon Institute 
of Business Science since 2007. He was an independent non-executive director at 
Xstrata plc from 2010 to 2013.

MW Hlahla – Monhla (52) 
Non-executive director

Director since 4 June 2015
MA (urban planning) (UCLA School of Architecture and Planning), advanced 
management programme (Insead), certificate in accounting and finance 
(Wits Business School)

Experience: Monhla spent the larger part of her career in the infrastructure 
sector starting in 1994 at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. The DBSA 
subsequently seconded her to the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit 
and was appointed to serve as a non-executive Chairperson of Johannesburg 
Water utility, followed by an appointment as the Managing Director of Airports 
Company South Africa in November 2001. She previously served as chairman of 
the Industrial Development Corporation and currently she is chairman of Royal 
Bafokeng Holdings Limited and a non-executive director of Liberty Holdings and 
Stanlib Limited. 

Dr D Konar – Len (62) 
Independent non-executive director, chairman of the board and member of 
remuneration and nomination committee (chairs nomination matters)

Director since 28 November 2006
BCom, CA(SA), MAS, DCom, CRMA

Experience: After completing his articles at EY, Len was an academic at the 
University of Durban-Westville. He spent six years with the Independent Development 
Trust as head of investments and internal audit, prior to becoming a professional 
director of companies and consultant. Len is chairman of Steinhoff International and 
Mustek Limited and a member of the boards of Illovo Sugar, Sappi and Alexander 
Forbes. He is a past member of the ad hoc ethics panel of the United Nations, 
safeguards panel of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, co-chairman of 
the risk implementation oversight panel of the World Bank, and past chairman and 
member of the external audit committee of the International Monetary Fund.

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015BOARD REVIEW (CONTINUED)

S Mayet – Saleh (59) 
Non-executive director 

Director since 18 August 2015
BCom, BCompt (hons), CA(SA), advanced management programme (GIBS)

Experience: Saleh is a financial professional with over 30 years’ experience in the 
Anglo American group in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He has been head 
of finance for Anglo American South Africa Limited since 2008. He has extensive 
experience on a wide range of corporate activities and currently serves on the 
boards of Anglo American South Africa and its strategic subsidiaries and trusts, 
as well as various senior management committees tasked with strategy, driving 
value initiatives and engaging with key stakeholders. Saleh is also a non-executive 
director of Distribution and Warehouse Network Limited where he chairs the audit 
and risk committees and serves on the remuneration and nominations committees.

VZ Mntambo – Zwelibanzi (59)
Non-executive director and member of remuneration and nomination committee

Director since 28 November 2006
BJuris, LLB (North West), LLM (Yale)

Experience: Zwelibanzi is executive chairman of Xalam Performance. He was 
previously senior lecturer at the University of Natal; executive director of 
IMSSA; director-general of Gauteng Province and chairman of the Commission 
for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. He is chairman of Main Street 333 
Proprietary Limited. He is also a director of SA Tourism Proprietary Limited and a 
trustee of the Paleo-Anthropological Scientific Trust.

RP Mohring – Rick (67)
A director since 28 November 2006, sadly passed away in March 2016.

V Nkonyeni — Vuyisa (47)
Independent non-executive director and member of audit committee

Director since 3 June 2014
BSc (inf proc), BSc (hons), postgraduate diploma in accounting, CA(SA)

Experience: Vuyisa has over 15 years’ experience in investment banking and 
private equity. He served his training contract as a chartered accountant with 
PricewaterhouseCoopers and then joined Deutsche Bank in 1997, where he gained 
investment banking experience primarily in corporate and project finance advisory 
work over four years. He serves on the boards of Emira Property Fund and Idwala 
Industrial Holdings Proprietary Limited. He has served as finance director of 
Worldwide African Investment Holdings Proprietary Limited and director at Actis 
llp in their black economic empowerment funding unit. He was appointed chief 
executive officer of Kagiso Tiso Holdings in January 2012.

Dr MF Randera – Fazel (66)
Non-executive director and chairman of social and ethics committee

Director since 13 June 2012
MRCS, LRCP, DRCOG

Experience: Globally, Fazel has served as board and council member of the World 
Medical Association (1997-2000), and chaired the global initiative on HIV/Aids reporting 
(2004). In South Africa, he sat on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1995-1998), 
founded the Ethics Institute and served as chairman (1997-2000), and served on the 
Human Rights Commission (1997-1999). Working in hospitals and facilities in the UK and 
South Africa, he specialised in a range of medical disciplines, including occupational 
health and HIV/Aids. Fazel chaired the Private Healthcare Forum (2004-2007) and was 
the health advisor at the Chamber of Mines. He is chairman of Nehawu Investment 
Holdings and MediTech South Africa.

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J van Rooyen — Jeff (66)
Independent non-executive director and chairman of audit committee

Director since 13 August 2008
BCom, BCompt (hons), CA(SA)

Experience: Jeff is a director of various companies in the Uranus Group, non-
executive director of MTN Group Limited, Pick ‘n Pay Stores Limited and Pick ‘n Pay 
Holdings Limited. He is a former chairman of the Financial Reporting Standards 
Council, a former trustee of the International Accounting Standards Foundation 
and member of the University of Pretoria’s faculty of economic and management 
sciences’ oversight board. He was a partner at Deloitte & Touche, chairman of the 
Public Accountants and Auditors Board, CEO of the Financial Services Board and 
advisor to the Minister of Public Enterprises during the Mandela administration. 
Jeff is a founder member and former president of the Association for the 
Advancement of Black Accountants of South Africa.

D Zihlangu – Rain (50)
Independent non-executive director and member of sustainability, risk and 
compliance committee

Director since 28 November 2006
BSc (eng)(mining) (Wits), MDP (SBL, Unisa), MBA (WBS, Wits)

Experience: Rain is CEO of Eyabantu Capital Consortium. Between 1989 and 1994 
he was a stoper/developer and shift boss at Vaal Reefs Gold Mining Company. 
From 1995 to 2002 he progressed to mine manager at Impala Platinum Limited, and 
served as CEO of Alexkor Limited from 2002 to 2005. From 2006 to 2012, he was 
an independent non-executive director of the South African National Oil and Gas 
Company (PetroSA) and served on its business performance monitoring committee. 
He also serves on the board, audit, remuneration, nominations and investment 
committees of Sentula Mining Limited.

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Mining is a cyclical industry and, since 2008, we have 
been dealing with a combination of factors that have 
produced the proverbial perfect storm. While a resurgent 
dollar has pushed most commodity prices to decade 
lows, commodity markets remained oversupplied after 
significant investment in new capacity at the height of the 
commodity boom in the early 2000s. At the same time, 
a strengthening American economy is dwarfed by slowing 
demand in China, which still consumes around half of the 
world’s minerals and metals such as iron ore, aluminium 
and zinc.

The continuing global oversupply has caused average US$ 
coal and iron ore prices to decline further, by around 22% 
and 40%, respectively, since 1 January 2015. 

In South Africa, this negative global impact is heightened 
by a contracting economy, weakening rand and higher 
input costs. There has also recently been much activism 
against coal as a source of energy due to the associated 
environmental impact from carbon dioxide (CO2) and 
methane (CH4) emissions. However, given the state of 
South Africa’s energy requirements, coal remains a 
relevant source of affordable energy for the economy 
and Exxaro is partially hedged against falling coal export 
prices as domestic US$ prices remained relatively stable. 
The weak rand also supported stable export volumes.

Against this background, Exxaro and other mining groups 
have had to review their approach to almost every facet of 
the business.

Summary of key economic changes

• 25,3% depreciation in the R/US$ exchange rate
• 1,3% GDP growth in South Africa, with 0,9% 

growth forecast in 2016

• 21,6% decrease in coal API4 prices, averaging 

US$57 over FY15 and US$50 at year end

• 39,7% decrease in iron ore prices, averaging 
US$57 over FY15 and US$42 by end 2015

(39,7)

(26,1)

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Copper 
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Commodity price volatility has been one of our top five risks over the past two years, although the extent of the downturn was probably underestimated by all. 
Our mitigating steps have supported our resilience in these trying times, while emphasising the importance of an effective enterprise risk management process.

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Our strategic objectives continued to guide our actions 
over this period (the diagram below reflects the addition 
of the sixth capital – intellectual). The changing 
environment has called for some tough decisions and 
a firm commitment to action to weather the subdued 
outlook for our commodity exposure. Consequently, one 
of the most material issues the board and management 
dealt with in 2015 was business resilience: a new issue 
since 2014 in response to the challenging environment 
and falling income from our equity investments in SIOC 
and Tronox. We define business resilience as our ability to 
withstand the economic and commodity market downturn. 
An absence of resilience would result in a destruction of 
value and our ultimate demise.

In the integrated report 2014, we detailed the process 
followed by the board to determine material issues. 
This remained constant over the review period, although 
the materiality of some issues increased in response to 
the worsening operating environment. 

The executive review provides a more expansive 
discussion and our performance on material issues in 
2015. In this review, we provide a high-level context for 
the six material issues relative to our strategic discussions.

The impact of decisions and actions on our stakeholders 
was considered and we engaged extensively with them 
on our response to material issues, as detailed in the 
executive review.

Business resilience
Given the context of the global economy and commodity 
markets, the short to medium-term strategy was to focus 
on growing and securing the sustainability of our coal 
business and maintaining our strategic investments.

As a result of its declining performance, for the first time 
we requested the KIO management team to present its 
investment thesis during our strategic review in 2015. 
We also commissioned a detailed external review of the 
fundamentals of ferrous and its global outlook (to also 
guide decision-making on our Mayoko and other ferrous 
projects and businesses). We will keep monitoring the 
global outlook, particularly the performance of iron ore 
commodity prices, and will be considering the future of 
this investment in the context of Anglo American plc’s 
intention to dispose of its controlling interest in KIO, as 
well as the impending black economic empowerment (BEE) 
(project Pangolin) unwind in November 2016, after which 
we no longer have a legal obligation to empower SIOC.

The audit committee and board have noted recent tax 
assessments received by SIOC from the South African 
Revenue Services (SARS) for tax years 2006 to 2010 of 
R5,5 billion, including interest and penalties of R3,7 billion. 
We will closely monitor progress on this and the potential 
impact it may have on Exxaro. 

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2015 material issues

SIOC contribution (Rbn)

• Business resilience (new)
• Dependency on Eskom
• Licence to operate
• Capital projects
• Operating efficiencies
• Employees

Our intention with the investment in Tronox has been 
questioned by shareholders for a number of years and 
although we continued to receive stable dividends at 
US$0,25 cents per share per quarter in 2015, the TiO2 
market is taking strain.

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We expect to receive lower dividends from this investment 
in 2016 as Tronox recently communicated a revised 
quarterly dividend payout policy of US$0,045 cents per 
share. Given prevailing market conditions, we will maintain 
our investment in Tronox, but as with SIOC, the investment 
thesis of both significant investments will receive much 
attention from the board in 2016.

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An aspect we are very pleased with, and which we also 
spent considerable time on in 2015, is the finalisation 
of the TCSA (now ECC) acquisition at a much-reduced 
purchase price (in response to the severe decline in 
commodity prices). Securing additional export allocation 
at RBCT and further entrenching ourselves as a premier 
coal producer in South Africa has been a strategic 
imperative for a number of years and a diversification 
priority to counteract our dependency on Eskom. 
The financial impact of the transaction is discussed in 
more detail in the audit committee report, while detailed 
information on ECC’s optimisation and performance is 
included in the executive review.

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Dependency on Eskom
The impact of this material issue was definitely more 
prevalent in 2015, compared to previous years. On the 
positive side, our coal business is considered defensive 
given the long-term offtake agreements with Eskom for 
92% of coal produced. 

However, our dependency on Eskom to deliver in line 
with coal supply and offtake agreement (CSA) conditions, 
especially for the tied operations, required the board to 
take some tough decisions this year. 

The sustainability, risk and compliance (SRC) committee 
report discusses the decision to close Matla mine 1 due 
to safety concerns stemming from a delay by Eskom to 
spend the requisite capital, as well as Eskom’s decision to 
terminate the Arnot CSA and the unfortunate impact on 
employees and communities. 

In addition, resulting from further delays to commission 
Medupi power station, negotiations on a potential tenth 
addendum to the Medupi CSA have started. The board will 
monitor the relationship with Eskom in 2016 and continue 
attempts to work with the utility to ensure electricity 
supply to South Africa.

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Licence to operate
For this material issue, we focused on protecting 
Exxaro’s BEE status and planning for the BEE unwind in 
November 2016. 

Following announcements in 2015, we secured additional 
funding to support our controlling BEE shareholder, 
Main Street 333. This provided a medium-term solution 
to the group’s BEE status until the structure unwinds. 
The Main Street 333 preference share balance at 
31 December 2015 is R2,8 billion (IDC supported – 
R621 million, Exxaro loan R426 million and other 
R175 million).

The lock-in restrictions originally imposed on Main Street 333 
as part of Exxaro’s current empowerment scheme expire 
on 30 November 2016, when it is free to trade its shares 
in Exxaro. We are working with Main Street 333 to assess 
alternative solutions to address our empowerment 
strategy including:
•  Formulating a proposed mechanism for a potential 

unwind of Exxaro’s existing BEE structure

•  Managing all risks, particularly market risk, associated 

with unwinding

•  Evaluating the requirements and potential alternatives 

of a subsequent BEE structure/scheme.

An independent board sub-committee was established to 
actively engage Main Street 333 on these matters to find a 
sustainable and satisfactory solution for all stakeholders. 
We are working to implement this solution prior to the 
November 2016 deadline. 

Capital projects
The board’s focus centred on a critical review of the 
overall capital profile and need to postpone and reduce 
capital expenditure in response to the business resilience 
material issue. Our revised capital allocation profile is also 
testament to our short to medium-term strategic focus 
on coal as discussed earlier (refer graphs). The executive 
review provides more operational detail on current and 
planned projects. 

We continued monitoring progress in securing our Mayoko 
mining convention and the reduction of activities and 
expenditure in the RoC. The audit committee will closely 
monitor progress on the RoC-related tax and customs 
potential contingent liability and, as previously indicated, 
we will rigorously object and defend our position.

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Operating efficiencies and employees
We reviewed progress and related strategies in these areas during 2015 and operational excellence remains a key response 
to the current market downturn. However, we recognise that economic and market changes are structural and hence 
our strategy will adapt through innovation. The impact on employees is a of concern under these challenging conditions. 
We regarded headcount reduction as a last resort, but it became inevitable as conditions worsened in 2015 (details of 
voluntary and other separations are discussed in the executive review).

The table highlights our strategic initiatives and response to market conditions in addressing our material issues.

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

SHORT-TERM FOCUS 
(started in 2015)

PORTFOLIO 
IMPROVEMENT 

BEE OWNERSHIP 

•  Achieve DMR’s BEE 
conditions on ECC 
•  BEE restructuring

•  Preserve cash 
•  Reduce overhead costs 
•  Maximise operational output 

and performance 
•  ECC optimisation 
•  Optimise and restructure 

group 

•  Customer relationships 

•  Portfolio optimisation
•  Expedite disposals and mine 

closures 

•  Obtain Mayoko mining right 
•  Take advantage of cleaner 

energy opportunities 

•  Growth through innovation 
•  Develop coal independent 
power producer in the 
Waterberg 

•  Evaluate current Tronox and 

SIOC shareholding 

CAPITAL PROJECT
GOVERNANCE 
(decision-making criteria)

•  Investment rate of return 
and net present value 
•  Affordability assessment 

and ranking 
•  Payback period 
•  Risk balance and mitigation 
•  Maximise shareholder 

returns 

Execution of our overall strategy, supported by these key initiatives, will remain paramount in 2016. The strategic 
performance dashboard will assist us in monitoring effective responses. In 2014, we introduced you to the Exxaro strategic 
performance dashboard by providing an extract in the integrated report with full detail on our website.

We believe the dashboard is one of the best industry examples of true integration between strategy, material issues, the 
six-capital framework, risk and risk appetite, assurance and measurable performance metrics. The dashboard forms the 
basis of how the board and executive committee manage the company’s strategy and performance. Each board committee 
reviews specific sections of the dashboard applicable to its scope. Performance on dashboard metrics is extensively 
discussed in the executive review and supplementary report, but we include a summary with brief comments below.

STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD
Exxaro measured 58 key performance indicators (KPIs) in 2015:
•  16 (28%) were out of appetite
•  The number of KPIs rated as out of appetite in our financial capital increased during the year, as we continued to 

weather the commodity down cycle

•  The manufactured capital KPIs performed better as we improved operating efficiencies and business processes to 

counteract the impact of deteriorating financial KPIs

•  Our integrated focus to risk and compliance management started paying dividends to bring our natural capital within the 

required thresholds

•  We continued to perform exceptionally well against mining charter targets and several initiatives during the year 
addressed our social licence to operate requirements, which further improved performance on social capital KPIs 

•  Some human capital KPIs were out of appetite, due to cost-containment initiatives implemented to counter the economic 

downturn, and these will be addressed once circumstances improve and the labour force stabilises.

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The following graphs provide a visual summary of the performance on these 58 KPIs in 2015 and summarise 
KPI performance in each of the capitals.

CONSOLIDATED STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD

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PERFORMANCE PER SUSTAINABILITY CAPITAL

NATURAL CAPITAL

We measure nine KPIs in natural capital. Good progress has been made over the last year to ensure we 
focus on licence-to-operate requirements at every operation and ensure project teams apply for and obtain 
the requisite mining rights, environmental authorisations and licences timeously. 

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HUMAN CAPITAL

Although the percentage out-of-appetite KPIs for human capital is quite high at 50%, this is mainly due to a 
budget reduction (in response to the economic circumstances) on, inter alia, HIV initiatives (some of which have 
been deferred). 

Offering voluntary severance packages (VSPs) to employees also resulted in sub-optimal performance on 
succession-related metrics, which will be refined once our group-wide improvement initiative has been finalised. 

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SOCIAL CAPITAL

The high number of KPIs indicating possible waste/opportunity in this capital needs to be contextualised. The 
mining charter targets (against which we primarily measure our performance in this capital) are less stringent 
than elements in the amended Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) codes. Expectations are that a new 
mining sector code will follow requirements set by the DTI codes. Exxaro is proactively preparing to align with 
anticipated code targets, while improving our performance against dti codes (necessary due to our Eskom 
exposure) and hence we seem to be over-performing compared to the lower Mining Charter metrics. 

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Year: 2015

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Total KPIs (%)

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FINANCIAL CAPITAL

Arguably, 2015 has been one of the most challenging since Exxaro’s formation. There has been a general 
decline in commodity prices (specifically those Exxaro is exposed to: coal, iron ore, mineral sands and 
pigments). This decline has affected the owner-controlled business (coal) and the performance of our 
investments (SIOC and Tronox). As a result, our financial capital KPIs were under strain in 2015, hence the 
notable increase in the percentage of out-of-appetite KPIs.

FINANCIAL CAPITAL

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Best realistic

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MANUFACTURED CAPITAL

Exxaro has embarked on several initiatives to improve the reliability of priority 1 operating systems that 
support our business. Moreover, a dedicated focus on board-approved capital projects, to ensure they 
remain on time and within budget, has resulted in no KPIs being out of appetite at year end. 

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Year: 2015

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The strategic dashboard journey

We constantly hear buzzwords like strategy, risk management, compliance KPIs, licence to operate, audits, 
assurance, performance measurement … and how they should be linked to reflect an integrated approach to 
sustainability and value creation for stakeholders.

This is theoretical until one develops practical tools to help pursue stated goals.

Four years ago, Exxaro embarked on a journey to ensure we manage our strategy in an integrated and holistic way 
with the key steps including:

• Implementing an integrated risk management framework, ensuring everyone clearly understands what is material 

to the company and why

• Establishing a sustainability framework
• Identifying KPIs aligned with material issues, risks and sustainability framework and the board setting a tolerance 

level or appetite for each metric

• Linking the combined assurance plan with risks, material issues and KPIs.

The result of this process is a fully integrated strategic performance dashboard that gives the board and executive the 
most critical information required to measure and manage the company’s strategy and performance. This also provides a 
transparent and consolidated view to stakeholders on our drivers of value and sustainability. 

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As a board, governance is intertwined in all we do and it underpins our decision-making process and oversight role. It is not 
an event, an initiative or a policy, it is a culture that drives us as an ethical, values-based and proudly South African black-
owned resources company. We are driven by the firm belief that our licence to operate and sustainability depend on being 
a responsible and accountable corporate citizen. 

Over the past three years, we have explained our governance processes to stakeholders in detail. This information remains 
available in our supplementary report in our detailed application of King III.

Below we highlight key board-related governance developments in 2015 and some plans for 2016.

Board meetings

•  Four standard meetings.
•  Four special meetings.
•  Three committee meetings (to deal with Main Street 333 funding and the new BEE structure): 
the committee comprises Drs Fauconnier and Konar and Messrs De Klerk, Mohring (now 
deceased) and Van Rooyen, although some sessions were attended by Ms Hlahla and Mr Mayet 
(in instances where they were not regarded as conflicted). 

•  One governance session. 

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Jeff

Rain

Board member

Present

Absent

Governance

Board meeting attendance

Wim

Con

Monhla

Len

Saleh

Rick

Jeff

Committee member

Present

Absent

BEE unwind and new structure board sub-committee 
meeting attendance

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Board and committee 
composition, director 
classification and 
succession 

•  Ms Monhla Hlahla was appointed an independent non-executive director on 4 June 2015 

(however, after the board independence evaluation in early 2016, she was reclassified as a 
non-executive director).

•  Mr Mxolisi Mgojo was appointed CEO (designate) on 1 May 2015, and as executive director 

on 4 June 2015. After a transition period of 12 months, Mxolisi succeeded Mr Sipho Nkosi as 
CEO (a position that remains separate from that of the independent chairman of the board, 
Dr Len-Konar) on 1 April 2016.

•  Mr Norman Mbazima resigned as a non-executive director on 18 August 2015 and was replaced 
by Mr Saleh Mayet on the same day. Saleh did not replace Norman on the remuneration and 
nomination committee which, therefore, comprised only four members for the rest of the period. 

•  Sadly, Mr Rick Mohring, an independent non-executive director since 28 November 2006, 

chairman of the remuneration and nomination (Remco) committee and member of the audit, 
social and ethics and sustainability, risk and compliance committees, passed away on 
14 March 2016. Rick had an illustrious career of 37 years in the mining industry on his retirement 
in December 2003, after which he continued providing guidance and advice to the industry 
through Mohring Mining Consulting. In 2012, he received the South African Institute of Mining 
and Metallurgy’s prestigious Brigadier Stokes award. This award is made to an individual for the 
very highest achievement in the South African mining and metallurgical industry. Rick will be 
missed by Exxaro and the entire mining industry. 

•  As a result of Rick’s passing, Dr Con Fauconnier was elected chairman of Remco and 

Mrs Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane appointed as an additional member of the social and ethics 
committee, on 5 April 2016. 

As per our standard practice, the chairpersons of the board and committees were again re-elected 
in 2015 based on an assessment of their performance and continued suitability. Dr Len, Rick 
and Rain reached nine-year tenure in November 2015 and resultantly underwent a rigorous 
review of their independence, in addition to the standard review for classification of directors. 
As two of these individuals served on Remco, the review process was facilitated by Dr Con and 
Mrs Carina Wessels.

Director tenure 

<2 years (33%)

2 – 5 years (17%)

5 – 9 years (17%)

>9 years (33%)

Monhla
Mxolisi
Saleh
Vuyisa

Con
Salukazi

Jeff
Wim

Fazel
Len
Rain
Zwelibanzi

17

17

83

83

HDSA

Non-HDSA

Male

Female

Director equity status at 1 April 2016 (%)

Director gender status at 1 April 2016 (%)

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Board and committee 
composition, director 
classification and 
succession

Rick’s passing and the company’s BEE restructuring (which could affect board composition due to 
the impending project Pangolin agreement unwind) has again highlighted the importance of board 
succession planning and, as emphasised through the Remco KPIs, will continue to receive 
significant focus in 2016. However, we are confident that, despite succession steps being required, 
and the level of skills and experience reducing in some areas (below), we still have the depth and 
breadth of skills and experience to effectively and strategically guide the company. 

In the integrated report 2014, we provided an overview of the board’s skills and experience in years 
and categories (new board nominations are assessed against gaps identified in this matrix). Due to 
the changes above, noteworthy changes to the skills and experience profile are shown below. 

Overall the total years of experience reduced to 1 123 (2014: 1 160).

The table indicates in green those areas where years of experience have increased and those in 
yellow or red where it reduced year on year. Most of these increases and reductions are minimal, 
however, areas where the largest reductions have occurred are technology, engineering, 
underground and opencast mining and, to a lesser extent, coal. 

A number of areas, although we still monitor against them for inclusiveness, are less critical as they 
do not currently form part of our strategic focus areas (such as copper, platinum and zinc).

Law

Health and safety

Information technology

Government relations

Technology

Engineering

Underground mining

Opencast mining

Coal

Iron ore

Copper

Platinum

Zinc

Mineral sands

Renewable energy

Water technology

Rest of Africa

International

Application of King III

We maintained our application of the principles and practices in King III at the same levels as 
reported in 2014, although many processes continued to mature and improve based on new best 
practices and recent developments. 

Full details of our application of King III are on our website. 

We eagerly awaited the release of the draft King IV report on 15 March 2016 and, although our 
group company secretary contributed to the process and our chairman serves on the task team, 
we will assess it in detail and intend to submit comments to fulfil our role in assisting to shape the 
future of governance in South Africa. 

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Key board policies, 
board charter and 
committee terms of 
reference

There were no changes to board policies and processes on nomination to the board, the 
separation of power and authority and division of responsibilities between the board chairman 
and CEO, nor the detailed delegation of authority, separating the powers of management and the 
board, during the year. 

As per standard practice, the board and committees reviewed their charters, committee terms 
of reference and annual plans during the year and these were updated to incorporate latest best 
practices. 

In response to the November 2015 Listings Requirements amendments on the implementation and 
disclosure of a policy on gender diversity at board level, we have decided to early-adopt reporting 
on this policy (despite the effective date of this amendment only being 1 January 2017) and have 
made the following changes to the board charter and Remco terms of reference to reflect our 
policy position:

Board charter 
In identifying and considering potential candidates, the remuneration and nomination committee 
and the board will, among skills, experience, race and age diversity, suitability and the specific 
requirement to be addressed, take gender diversity into consideration. In addition, shareholders 
entitled to nominate directors in terms of the implementation agreement will also be requested to 
take gender diversity into consideration when nominating directors for appointment.

Remco terms of reference
In terms of nominations, the committee will: 
•  Regularly review the structure, size and composition (including diversity – gender, race, age, 

skills and experience) of the board, together with the board’s balance of skills, knowledge and 
experience and make recommendations on any adjustments deemed necessary to the board.

In further response to the amended Listings Requirements, the board approved improvements 
to the securities dealing and information policy to ensure full compliance.

In 2015, for the first time, we developed specific KPIs for the board and committees, in addition 
to aspects dealt with in our annual plans. This was a first attempt at setting objective measures 
for directors for a particular year in assisting management to achieve Exxaro’s strategic objectives. 
We recognise these are more quantitative in nature, but view this as a maturing process that will 
lead the board and its committees to more meaningful qualitative measures over time to give 
stakeholders a more in-depth understanding of the performance of the board and its committees.

Committee KPIs and their achievement are discussed in each committee report.

The board set the following KPIs for 2015: 
•  Improved use of the strategic dashboard to manage and monitor the strategy 
•  Involved and active board, taking accountability for strategic guidance and advice: attendance of 

standard meetings and governance sessions, preparation and participation 

•  Attendance and participation in strategic session and approval of short, medium and  

long-term strategy 

•  Engagement with key stakeholders 
•  Sharing best practice. 

During the board evaluation, the board and invitees concurred that these KPIs were achieved in 
2015, with examples discussed in different areas of this report. 

No material changes were made to KPIs for 2016, although some measures were adjusted to 
redirect focus. 

Board and committee 
key performance 
indicators

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Board evaluation

The board and committee evaluations for 2015 differed substantially from prior years and focused 
much more on performance than conformance; hence a comparison of year-on-year results would 
be misleading. Overall, a score of 3,52 (moving towards exceeding expectations) was achieved, 
with no aspect identified as requiring attention.

BOARD EVALUATION

LEADERSHIP

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3,8

3,6

3,4

3,2

3

DRIVERS OF BOARD  
EFFECTIVENESS

COMMITTEE  
EFFECTIVENESS

PARTNERSHIP WITH  
THE EXECUTIVE

 BOARD
 EXCO

Economic, social and 
governance (ESG) 
roadshow

In prior years, we primarily engaged with shareholders and proxy advisors on governance-specific 
matters retroactively and specifically in preparation for annual general meeting voting. As part of the 
‘engagement with key stakeholders’ KPI referred to above, we undertook a bespoke ESG roadshow 
early in 2016. This was a significant success, enabling us to provide deeper insights to stakeholders 
on critical ESG matters, and to solicit their opinions proactively, particularly on our remuneration and 
other key policies, as well as on the manner of disclosure in the integrated report 2015. 

We intend to continue with these transparent engagements in future. 

Induction and 
continued professional 
development

New directors appointed during the year underwent a detailed induction process that included: 
•  Overview of duties, role, governance, key policies, memorandum of incorporation (MoI), board 

operation, strategy and material issues by the group company secretary 

•  Meeting with the chairman, key executives and visits to business units. In addition, the CEO 

(designate) also received additional induction, specifically on his role as director. 

As in previous years, directors were given daily industry updates and quarterly detailed governance 
and legislative updates. Due to budget constraints, only one full-day governance session was held, 
which dealt with: 
•  Global mining industry research and trends 
•  Emergence of class actions and their impacts 
•  Mineral resources and carbon tax-related legislative developments and administrative licensing 

and permitting reviews 

•  Competition law developments 
•  Directors’ and officers’ insurance update 
•  Global business risk reviews 
•  Overview of key Listings Requirements and corporate broking initiatives. 

We select and appoint the group company secretary and recognise the individual’s pivotal role in 
entrenching good corporate governance. Carina Wessels was appointed group company secretary 
on 1 July 2011. All directors have access to her advice and services. The board has an established 
procedure for directors to obtain independent professional advice at the group’s cost and Carina 
assists directors, board committees and their members in obtaining such professional advice.
As stipulated by the Listings Requirements, a detailed assessment was conducted by the board 
to consider and satisfy itself of Carina’s competence, qualifications and experience. The detailed 
process followed is included in the supplementary report.

Group company 
secretary

Board and statutory 
committees 

There were no changes to the number of committees or their responsibilities during the year: all 
committees therefore comprised a majority of independent non-executive directors. 

All committees continued to have a group focus with no subsidiaries having their own board committees.

The committees’ detailed reports are included in our supplementary report, and summarised 
versions in this report. These reports include significantly more information than in the past to give 
stakeholders a better understanding of how committees have assisted the board in executing (without 
abdicating) its duties, powers and authorities. 

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AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT 

Jeff van Rooyen
Committee chairman

Purpose

Key issues that received attention during the year included

Apart from statutory duties set out in the 
Companies Act, Listings Requirements and 
King III, the ambit of this committee has 
been expanded to include financial risk 
management, financial compliance, 
combined assurance and aspects of 
integrated reporting. In terms of this 
mandate, its key objectives are to:
•  Examine and review the group’s annual 
financial statements, reports and results
•  Oversee the internal and external audit 

functions and their cooperation and serve 
as a link between the board and 
these functions 

•  Evaluate the qualification, 

appropriateness, eligibility and 
independence of the external auditor

•  Ensure effective internal financial controls 

are in place

•  Review the integrity of financial risk control 

systems and policies

•  Evaluate the competency of the finance 

director and finance function
•  Oversee the effectiveness of the 

combined assurance plan and outcome.

•  Given the continued decline of global commodity prices and the performance of 

the mining industry as a whole, the committee debated the valuation of the 
company’s investments, particularly ECC, Tronox and SIOC when impairment 
indicators were discussed. Extensive advice and guidance were obtained from 
management and the external auditors. Following this rigorous review, we are 
pleased to advise that, except for impairments at ECC of R1,5 billion (goodwill 
recognised on acquisition) and reductants of R225 million (carrying value of 
property, plant and equipment), as well as the impact of R866 million (net after 
tax) on Exxaro after KIO’s decision to impair the Sishen mine by R6 billion, no 
other assets were impaired. We view this as a strong indicator of Exxaro’s 
decisive response to current commodity industry fundamentals

•  In addition, negative market conditions meant a rapid decline in Exxaro’s share 

price during 2015. This, in turn, required granting financial assistance to our BEE 
shareholder consortium, Main Street 333 to remedy a default of its debt 
covenants to avoid risking Exxaro’s BEE status. This matter was debated 
extensively by both the committee and an independent sub-committee of the 
board. While we acknowledge that some shareholders viewed this intervention 
negatively, Exxaro regarded providing this loan (on commercial, arm’s-length 
terms) as the most appropriate risk-mitigating course of action to protect our BEE 
status and confirm that the company, without difficulty, passed the solvency and 
liquidity test when this decision was made.

Effectiveness against 2015 KPIs and committee 
evaluation
The 2015 KPIs were:
•  Greater oversight over information technology (IT) 

governance and its maturity

•  Greater oversight over implementation of the combined 

assurance model

•  Improved use of the strategic dashboard to manage 

and monitor the strategy

•  Sharing best practice.

The committee and invitees concurred that these KPIs 
were achieved in 2015.

In respect of the overall committee evaluation, an average 
score of 3,88 out of 5 (close to exceeding expectations) 
was achieved, with no aspect identified as requiring 
attention. 

To fully entrench the KPIs and related objectives in 2016, 
no changes were made to KPIs for 2016.

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SOCIAL AND ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT 

Dr Fazel Randera
Committee chairman

Purpose

Key issues that received attention during the year included

Monitor the group’s activities, taking 
account of relevant legislation, other 
legal requirements or prevailing 
codes of best practice on:
•  Social and economic 

development

•  Good corporate citizenship
•  The environment, health and 

public safety, including the impact 
of our activities, products or 
services

•  As in previous years, discussions on the efficacy of proactive processes and systems used to 

safeguard employees and their health and safety received significant focus

•  The risks female employees are exposed to underground, including unacceptable sexual 

advances that have seemingly become standard in many underground areas: in 2016, the 
committee will specifically investigate this issue and consider appropriate remedial actions

•  The negative impact from Eskom terminating the Arnot CSA on employees and the surrounding 

community (refer SRC committee report)

•  The committee was especially concerned about lengthy delays in receiving environmental 

regulatory approvals, and constraints in tied business units where full regulatory compliance 
depended on and was influenced by Eskom

•  Increased pressure from various stakeholders to decrease carbon emissions and our carbon 

•  Consumer relationships, including 
our advertising, public relations 
and compliance with consumer 
protection laws

disclosure programme: the committee specifically considered the impact these aspects should 
have on the long-term strategy and Exxaro’s sustainability. This will remain a serious 
consideration for the board as a whole (refer SRC committee report and COP21 section)
•  R56,3 million was spent on community development projects and corporate donations and 

•  Labour and employment
•  Anti-bribery and corruption.

The committee interrogates and 
provides independent oversight over 
the Remco and SRC committees’ 
ambit (ie discussing the associated 
moral imperative of operational 
issues dealt with at these 
committees)

projects in 2015. To better understand the impact and benefits of these projects, the committee 
visited the Botleng housing/hydroponics project, multipurpose centre and TVET College. Such 
visits assure the committee of the effectiveness and sustainability of projects, in addition to the 
social return on investment toolkit evaluation, now proactively used to predict the sustainability 
of projects

•  Ethics: In 2015, 457 cases of alleged unethical behaviour (2014: 448) were reported for 

investigation, 57 of these via the ethics line (2014: 49). In total, 201 people were subjected to 
disciplinary hearings, with 175 arrests made by the South African Police Service (SAPS) for 
criminal prosecution based on the results of referred investigations (2014: 164). The direct value 
of cases reported and investigated was R18,5 million (2014: R16,6 million) with R11 million (2014: 
R10,5 million) being recovered/saved due to the investigations. Copper cable theft has 
increased dramatically and impacted negatively on the company’s loss-recovery rate, despite 
the successes in concluding investigations and disciplinary actions.

Effectiveness against 2015 KPIs and committee evaluation
The 2015 KPIs were:
•  Evaluating the impact of Exxaro’s activities specifically on 
public safety, in addition to the standard mine health and 
safety discussions at the SRC committee

•  Evaluating the impact of Exxaro’s activities on contractors, 
treatment of contractors and the contractor philosophy 
•  Increased understanding of the impact of the company’s 

social and labour plans and projects, specifically by visiting 
projects

•  Sharing best practice
•  Evaluate and approve 2016 and medium-term anti-bribery 

and fraud risk maturity initiatives.

The committee and invitees concurred that these KPIs were 
achieved in 2015. 

In the overall committee evaluation, an average score of 3,04 
out of 5 (meeting expectations) was achieved, with no aspect 
identified as requiring attention. 

After a thorough review of the medium-term anti-bribery and 
fraud risk maturity initiatives, the committee agreed that the 
achieved level of maturity did not warrant a specific KPI for 
2016, but it will continue to receive focus as part of the standard 
annual plan. The other KPIs will remain the same for 2016, 
although some measures were adjusted to redirect focus. 

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SUSTAINABILITY, RISK AND COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE REPORT

Dr Con Fauconnier 
Committee chairman

Purpose

Key issues that received attention during the year included

•  Provide oversight on three 

important aspects influencing 
strategy and the long-term 
viability of the company – 
sustainability, risk and 
compliance

•  Oversee and coordinate all 

risk and compliance activities 
(although the audit committee 
remains accountable for 
financial risk and compliance) 

•  Ensure Exxaro reports 

annually through an integrated 
report and provide oversight 
over the integrated report.

•  Regular reviews of safety performance: we are pleased with the LTIFR of 0,17. Although still above 
the target of 0,15, this is a significant milestone and the lowest rate in Exxaro’s nine-year history 
•  We have again reported no fatalities in 2015 – our second 12-month fatality-free period. We will 

continue to emphasise the objective of zero harm through visible-felt leadership initiatives in 2016: 
safety always, all the way!

•  As discussed elsewhere, the SRC portion of the strategic dashboard is discussed at every meeting: 

the KPIs deal with material items in each of the capitals, including energy consumption, water 
withdrawal and discharge, air quality, occupational diseases and exposure, lost-time injuries, social 
and labour plan performance, preferential procurement and enterprise development, top risks and 
licence-to-operate legislative compliance. 

Specialist and business unit reports are presented to the committee by rotation. In 2015, the most 
material discussions included:
•  Matla mine 1 cessation of operations in the first quarter of 2015. After much deliberation, we 

approved halting operations at Matla mine 1 because of safety concerns (refer detailed discussion 
in executive review). Mine 1 will remain closed until the required capital for shaft development and 
safety-improvement initiatives is obtained from Eskom

•  Following the instruction by Eskom to stop producing and supplying coal for Arnot power station, 
significant time was spent on reviewing planned closure activities and social impacts which will 
remain a focus in 2016. The committee and board specifically debated whether to publically 
respond to allegations made in the press and decided not to engage in such a manner. However, 
when we published results on 3 March 2016, a detailed position paper was posted on our website 
and stakeholders are encouraged to refer to this for full information

•  Mine-closure strategies generally, but specifically plans for Inyanda’s scheduled closure
•  A summary of ECC’s top 50 risks in preparation for the transaction closure in August 2015
•  An overview of Exxaro’s water-liability estimation model: regarded as a first for the industry and a 

significant step in quantifying water liabilities (previously excluded from closure rehabilitation 
provisions) and appropriately accounting for this 

•  Carbon disclosure performance and commitments. In preparation for the Paris United Nations 

Framework Convention on Climate Change Congress of Parties (COP21), the board supported an 
international agreement between governments on climate change to limit the global temperature 
rise to below 2°C from pre-industrial levels. Exxaro also supports the activities of South Africa’s 
National Business Initiative (NBI), Business Unity South Africa and the industry task team on climate 
change. This will naturally continue to inform our strategic process and our portfolio improvement 
strategic objective.

Effectiveness against 2015 KPIs and committee evaluation
The 2015 KPIs were:
•  Entrenching oversight of the risk management framework
•  Visibility, support and understanding of material issues
•  Active stakeholder engagement by committee members
•  Improved use of the strategic dashboard to manage and monitor the 

strategy

•  Sharing best practice.

The committee and invitees concurred that these KPIs were achieved in 2015. 

In the committee evaluation, an average score of 3,72 out of 5 (close to 
exceeding expectations) was achieved, with no aspect identified as requiring 
attention. 

We approved fewer KPIs for 2016, mainly because the KPI ‘visibility, support 
and understanding of material issues’ was fully entrenched through numerous 
visits to business units in 2015 and has become a standard part of the annual 
plan. The KPI ‘stakeholder engagement’ was specifically elevated to the 
board for increased focus in 2016. The other KPIs will remain the same for 
2016, although some measures were adjusted to redirect focus. 

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REMUNERATION AND NOMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT

Dr Con Fauconnier 
Committee chairman (since 5 April 2016)

Purpose

Key issues that received attention during the year included

Oversees remuneration 
matters for all controlled 
subsidiaries and nomination 
matters for Exxaro Resources 
Limited only.
The committee’s key 
objectives are to:
•  Make recommendations on 
remuneration policies and 
practices, including Exxaro’s 
employee share schemes, 
for all controlled companies
•  Ensure effective executive 
and board succession 
planning

•  Review medical aid and 

retirement fund performance
•  Review compliance with all 
statutory and best-practice 
requirements on labour and 
industrial relations 
management in 
collaboration with the SRC 
committee.

•  As reported in 2014, retrenchments due to mine closure remained a feature, specifically at 

Inyanda, AlloyStream and Tshikondeni. Exxaro paid retrenchment packages to the value of two 
weeks for every completed year of service to all retrenched employees, in addition to providing 
employee assistance and other support services. The same retrenchment packages and 
support were extended to ECC employees early in 2016 after the ECC optimisation process. 
As discussed elsewhere the section 189 retrenchment process at Arnot will continue in 2016 
and the committee will focus on the impact of mine closure on employees and the community 
•  The cost of labour and the need to reduce overhead costs received significant focus in 2015, 

resulting in a below-CPI increase to non-bargaining unit employees (detailed in the 
supplementary report), and 464 employees (minimal in the critical and scarce skills categories) 
accepting voluntary severance packages and leaving the company by latest March 2016

•  As flagged last year, 2015 was a bargaining-unit wage negotiation year, and the risk of 

protracted negotiations, industrial action and unrest was extensively discussed: the Chamber of 
Mines wage negotiation process, in which Exxaro participates, was concluded post a nine-day 
wage strike ending on 13 October 2015

•  The remuneration philosophy and principles have been under review. This process will continue 

in 2016 and we intend having a dedicated session to consider the wage gap in Exxaro.

We have approved the following changes to the remuneration policy for implementation in 2016:
•  A special resolution to be considered at the 2016 annual general meeting to reduce the 

aggregate number of shares that may be allocated under all management share schemes from 
30 000 000 (some 10% of issued share capital) to 18 000 000 (some 6% of issued share capital)

•  Annual remuneration adjustment for executive directors and senior management of 3,5% to be 

implemented effective 1 April 2016

•  Change in performance conditions for the 2016 long-term incentive plan (LTIP) grants:

–  34% total shareholder return against a peer group
–  33% headline earnings per share
–  33% retention with specific environmental, safety and governance (ESG) modifiers (one-third 

each).

Effectiveness against 2015 KPIs and committee evaluation
The 2015 KPIs were:
•  Assess executive capacity on board
•  Enhanced board succession planning
•  Improved use of the strategic dashboard to manage and monitor the strategy
•  Sharing best practice.

The committee and invitees concurred that these KPIs were achieved in 2015. 

In the committee evaluation, an average score of 3,29 out of 5 (meeting 
expectations) was achieved. One item was identified as requiring attention, 
namely Remco mix and depth of capacity, skills and experience: undoubtedly 
impacted by the decision not to appoint an additional committee member on the 
resignation of Norman. Board and committee succession will continue to receive 
significant attention in 2016. 

All 2016 KPIs will remain the same, except for ‘support to new executive head: 
human resources’ replacing ‘assess executive capacity on board’.

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Special nomination committee

Committee meeting attendance

Our detailed remuneration philosophy and framework is included in the supplementary report. No material changes occurred 
over the reporting period. This summarised version of our report only includes performance scorecards and short-term incentive 
information for the CEO, and finance director (FD) (disclosed for the first time in response to requests from stakeholders). Refer 
following pages.

Information on the remuneration of executive and non-executive directors, as well as prescribed officers (which also includes the 
salaries of the three most highly paid employees as required by King III) is included in an annexure to this report.

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REMUNERATION AND NOMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT (CONTINUED)

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (SIPHO NKOSI): PERFORMANCE SCORECARD GUARANTEED PAY 2015

Key performance areas

Weight

Target

Performance

Actual

Performance rating

Operational excellence

Target setting

Rand per tonne

Cash flow

Sustainability

Safety

SRI and risk management

Portfolio improvement

HEPS improvement 
against peers

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5

15

5

10

5

5

10

6

Top-down, bottom-up stretched targets for 
coal: budgeted NOP increase with/cost 
reduction 

% improvement

Full performance

Rand per tonne budgeted

7,5% above budget

Under performance

Budgeted cash flow

ECC excluded, % improvement

Full performance

LTIFR 0,15

Exxaro between median and upper quartile 
of mining sector of global standard ESG 
rating

0,17 

Exxaro rated 78%

Under performance

Above full performance

1 467 cents over three years 2013-2015

594 cents over three years

Under performance

Alignment with strategy

4 Manage portfolio in line with strategy

Board assessment of execution in a 
changing market and political environment

Above full performance

Corporate governance

10

Comply with all compliance regulations: 
King III, JSE, Companies Act, etc

Best ethical boardroom magazine award, 
mining Africa region

Above full performance

Exxaro brand 
and reputation

Strategy development 
and implementation

Group services  
add value

Leadership and people

Employment equity and 
procurement

Culture and leadership

5 Well-managed brand and positive 

stakeholder engagement

Well-acknowledged brand constructive 
stakeholder engagements

Above full performance

15

Strategy development, execution, alignment Obtained board approval and executed

Above full performance

+

AAA

 King III external assurance

5

20

5

15

All support functions services achieve all 
service delivery targets

All support functions services achieved and 
exceeded their targets

Above full performance

Comply with all targets in mining charter 
and employment equity plans

People strategy developed and targets set 
for implementation

Exceeded all targets except employment 
equity on senior management level and for 
people with disability

Full performance

Exceeded all targets for people strategy

Above full performance

Overall performance

100

Full performance

CEO (SIPHO NKOSI) SHORT-TERM INCENTIVES 2015

SCHEME

PERFORMANCE

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REWARD

Weight (%)

Max % of NCOE

Target

Actual

Individual target 

Mayoko specific steps

Executive transition

Group target

Group NOP

90% threshold

100% target

33,44

18,50

33,44

18,50

TWO-TIER SHORT-TERM INCENTIVE

TIER 1 Coal NOP 70%; CSD 30%

15,06

8,33

90% threshold

100% budget

TIER 2 Coal consolidated NOP

101% threshold above budget

130% target

Total

Individual/company performance split

18,06

10,00

100,00

34/66

55,33

100

100

90%

100%

R2 688m

R2 987m

R1 722m

R1 914m

R1 915m

R2 805m

R3 173m

R2 769m

R3 173m

Actual % of
NCOE accrued

18,50

18,50

8,02

9,63

54,65

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REMUNERATION AND NOMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT (CONTINUED)

FINANCE DIRECTOR (FD): PERFORMANCE SCORECARD GUARANTEED PAY 2015

Key performance areas

Weight

Target

Performance

Actual

Lead formulation, communication and 
implementation of strategy

Strong leadership in developing and 
executing strategy

Lead formulation and implementation 
of funding strategy

Funding strategy supports execution 
of Exxaro strategy

Performance rating

Full performance

Full performance

Total business integrated risk management 
and assurance against all governance 
principles

Best-practice risk management and 
assurance implemented

Above full performance

Functional cost 

6 Own functional cost on budget

Support services NPV >3 times historical 
cost and 80% of resource allocation aligned 
with ranking

Finance functional actual spend below 
budget

Full performance

Services NPV >3 times historical cost and 
resource allocation aligned with ranking

Full performance

Vision and strategy

Strategy development and 
implementation

Funding strategy supports 
Exxaro strategy

Sustainability

Risk management 

Portfolio improvement

35

15

20

20

20

10

Alignment with strategy 

Exxaro brand and 
reputation

Exxaro brand 

Internal and external 

Operational excellence

Leadership and people

4

20

10

10

10

5

100

Positive contribution to Exxaro brand

Positive Exxaro brand 

Full performance

Spokesperson for Exxaro Contribution 
to Exxaro image

Consolidated services quality on full 
performance and cost on budget

Ensure compliance with all diversity 
succession, with ready succession 
candidates

Effective engagement with all stakeholders

Full performance

Service delivery achieved >90% of set targets Full performance

Comply with targets in employment equity 
plan except disability

Full performance

Full performance

FD SHORT-TERM INCENTIVES 2015

SCHEME

PERFORMANCE

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE REWARD

Weight (%)

Max % of NCOE

Target

Actual

Actual % of NCOE 
accrued

Individual target 

Executive team transition

Group target

Group NOP

90% threshold

100% target

33,44

18,50

33,44

18,50

TWO-TIER SHORT-TERM INCENTIVE

TIER 1 Coal NOP 70%; CSD 30%

15,06

8,33

90% threshold

100% budget

TIER 2 Coal consolidated NOP

101% threshold above budget

130% target

Total

Individual/company performance split

18,06

10,00

100,00

34/66

55,33

100% of plan

100%

R2 688m

R2 987m

R1 722m

R1 914m

R1 915m

R2 805m

R3 173m

R2 769m

R3 173m

18,50

18,50

8,02

9,63

54,65

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Tribute to Sipho Nkosi

Sipho Nkosi
Chief executive officer until 31 March 2016

Sipho Nkosi has served Exxaro with absolute diligence and dedication since November 2007, a year after the 
company listed on the JSE, following the unbundling of Kumba Resources Limited. 

Sipho was instrumental in forming Exxaro, which involved merging Kumba’s coal, mineral sands and base metals 
assets with Eyesizwe Coal Proprietary Limited, a company he had founded earlier with Mxolisi Mgojo, our new CEO, 
and others. 

Under his leadership, Exxaro has developed into one of the largest and foremost black-owned, South African-based 
resources companies. Arguably one of the most ‘operational’ chief executives in the industry, Sipho’s leadership 
style was characterised by gentle humour, a willing ear through countless conversations with people in open pits or 
boardrooms, and a pervasive humility that resonated with Exxaro’s people. In his own words: “this was the defining 
period of my career”.

He steered the group through its formative years, in good markets and bad. Despite the recent and unprecedented 
commodity market volatility, Exxaro’s net asset value per share has risen 250% to R98 per share at 31 December 
2015 from R28 in 2007 when he took office. As a board, we sincerely thank you Sipho, and we wish you good health 
and fulfilment in your new life stage.

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015EXECUTIVE REVIEW
GOVERNANCE

We have been entrusted and mandated by the board to execute the group’s approved strategy. To best elaborate on how 
we have achieved this in 2015, we have structured this discussion around the board’s strategic focus areas, material issues 
and the respective indicators used to track our performance. We also include in our review the relevant board-approved 
risks, to describe how we have responded to threats and opportunities that may have impacted the performance of the 
business in creating (or destroying) stakeholder value. 

We collectively hereby report to our stakeholders.

Executive

MDM Mgojo – Mxolisi (55)
Chief executive officer from 1 April 2016

Refer board review 

SA Nkosi – Sipho (61)
Chief executive officer until 31 March 2016

Refer board review 

WA de Klerk – Wim (52)
Finance director

Refer board review 

AW Diedericks – Wim (48) 
Executive head, growth and portfolio management

B Eng (mining) (Pretoria), executive development programme (Darden)

Experience: Wim started his career as an Iscor bursar from 1986-1990 and was 
appointed as an engineer-in-training at Thabazimbi Mine in 1992. He was further 
employed at Durnacol, Tshikondeni, SIOC, Rosh Pinah and Kumba Resources head 
office. Since Exxaro’s formation he has held senior leadership positions at KZN 
Sands, Grootegeluk, Mpumalanga Coal Commercial Region and Corporate Office. 
He assumed his current role on 1 April 2015.

Vanisha Balgobind (43) 
Executive head: human resources

BA (hons)(industrial psychology), MA (ind psych), management development 
programme (GIBS)

Experience: Vanisha is a registered industrial psychologist with 18 years’ 
experience in the mining industry. She was appointed as an HR assistant at Mondi 
Kraft in Richardsbay in 1996 and joined Iscor Mining in 1997 as an HR trainee. 
She was further employed at Kumba Resources as an HR consultant and Talent 
Management consultant between 1998 and 2006. In Exxaro she has fulfilled the 
following roles manager: talent management and staffing for five years, manager 
for corporate projects and HR optimisation for two years, and prior to her current 
role group manager: talent and learning. She assumed her current role on 
1 January 2016.

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Johan Meyer (47) 
Executive head: business technology

BEng (metallurgy) (Pretoria), MBA (Stellenbosch) and advanced management 
programme (Insead)

Experience: Johan started his career in the steel and stainless steel industry at 
Iscor Pretoria Steel Works in 1987. From 1997 – 2005 he was part of the heavy 
minerals management team in designing, commissioning and implementing the 
KZN Sands business. He spent two years as research and development manager 
for Kumba Resources before his appointment as Zincor BU manager in 2009. 
Following the successful closure of Zincor, he fulfilled the role of general manager: 
technology prior to assuming his current role on 1 April 2015. 

Mzila Mthenjane (46) 
Executive head: strategy and stakeholder engagement

BSc (eng) (mining), senior management development programme (GIMT)

Experience: Mzila is a mining engineer with over 20 years’ experience in mining and 
investment banking. This includes seven years in deep-level gold mining at AngloGold 
Ashanti and Gold Fields in senior mine management and corporate development 
roles, respectively; and six years in investment banking at RMB and Deutsche Bank. 
His knowledge of business sustainability was honed over six years as executive: 
business sustainability at Royal Bafokeng Holdings and Royal Bafokeng Platinum. 
He assumed his current role in 2013.

Retha Piater (61) 
Executive head: human resources (voluntary severance on 31 December 2015)

Dr Nombasa Tsengwa (51)
Acting executive head: coal operations

PhD (agronomy) (Maryland, US), executive development programme (Insead)

Experience: Nombasa has over 15 years of executive management and board 
experience in the public and private sector. In 2003 she joined Kumba Resources 
as general manager: safety, health, and environment. In 2007 she was appointed 
executive general manager: safety and sustainable development. In 2010, she 
became directly involved in the coal operations, as general manager of tied mines, 
and general manager of Mpumalanga operations. She has been acting in her current 
role since 1 May 2015.

Mongezi Veti (52)
Executive head: sustainability

National higher diplomas in metalliferous mining and coal mining (Technikon 
Witwatersrand), MBL (Unisa), advanced management programme (Wharton), mine 
overseer’s certificate and mine manager’s certificate of competency for fiery mines

Experience: In the early 1980s, Mongezi worked for AngloGold at Western Deep 
Levels and joined Sasol Mining in 1994. In 2002, he became mine manager at Arnot, 
and was appointed an area general manager in Exxaro soon after the merger, 
before assuming his current role in 2010.

Carina Wessels (38)
Group company secretary and legal

LLB, advanced labour law (Pretoria), LLM (labour law) (Unisa), management 
development programme (GIBS), FCIS (CSSA)

Experience: Carina is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a 
fellow and past president of Chartered Secretaries Southern Africa. She is also a past 
president of the Corporate Secretaries International Association and remains on that 
executive committee. Carina spent nine years with De Beers in various operational and 
head-office positions, including human resources, business improvement and corporate 
secretariat, as well as a period with Investec as corporate secretariat legal advisor. 
She assumed her current role in 2011.

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015EXECUTIVE REVIEW (CONTINUED)

The year in brief

• 11% improvement in LTIFR at 0,17
• 18 months without a mining-related loss of life
• Owner-controlled operations
– Coal sales at 43Mt, up 5%
– Core coal net operating profit of R4,3 billion, 

up 29%

• Net debt: equity of 8,8%
• 15% capital expenditure reduction
• Sustainable reduction in input costs of R288 million
• 464 people (6% of total workforce) elected 

voluntary separation and other termination packages 
at a cost of R408 million 
– Expected annual labour-bill saving of R250 million 

• Wage negotiations settled without significant 

labour unrest

24

63

960

500

824

861

3 617

• Final dividend of 85 cents, 2015 total of 150 cents 

Salaries, wages and benefits

Employees’ tax

per share

• Progress on refining the company's AA1000SES-
based approach to stakeholder engagement and 
finalising a stakeholder charter

• Regular engagements with various stakeholders: 
industry bodies, DMR, communities, local and 
provincial government.

Payments to government: 
taxation contribution
Cash dividend paid, excluding 
Mpower 2012 dividend to employees

Community investments and 
volunteerism

Cost of finance

Cash dividend paid to Mpower 
2012 beneficiaries

Value distribution in 2015 (Rm)

Broad-based value created for stakeholders in brief
The cash value added statements (unaudited) show 
the wealth the group has created through mining and 
investing operations.

Exxaro generates and creates value as follows:
•  Employees receive salaries/wages, share-based 
payments as well as bonuses (where certain 
performance conditions are met) and distributions from 
Mpower 2012

•  The governments of the countries where Exxaro has 

operations receive tax and royalty payments

•  Suppliers and contractors are supported through the 
procurement of consumables, services and capital 
goods

•  Shareholders receive a return on their investment 

through dividends and capital growth in the share price

•  Providers of finance receive a return through interest 

and other loan costs paid

•  Exxaro has corporate social investment initiatives which 

benefit communities surrounding the operations
•  Continuous reinvestment into the group to ensure 

sustainability and expansion.

Despite the challenging environment, we were still able 
to create significant value for our stakeholders and 
contribute meaningfully to the South African economy.

Lowlights in brief
•  The dual impact of low commodity prices and higher 

overhead and input costs

•  Impairing the ECC goodwill and reductants operation 
property, plant and equipment, totaling R1,7 billion

•  Losing people through voluntary separation and other 

termination packages in 2015, after the closure of 
Tshikondeni, Inyanda, AlloyStream and our remaining 
offshore offices 

•  The impact of the reduction in the Exxaro share price 

(R214 peak in 2012 to R44 in 2015) on our BEE partner's 
(Main Street 333) debt covenant requirements, which 
threatened our BEE status.

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5
3
(

)
0
4
(

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9
5
(

)
7
5
(

)
3
6
(

)
5
7
(

)
3
8
(

Peer 1

Peer 2

Peer 3

Peer 4

Exxaro

Peer 5

Peer 6

Challenges in the mining environment reflected in 
share price performance across the sector (% reduction)

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015EXECUTIVE REVIEW (CONTINUED)

EXECUTING ON OUR STRATEGY GIVEN MACROECONOMIC AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES
In the context of integrated reporting, this table illustrates our perspective and approach to managing the business as an 
integrated entity (refer board review for a discussion on the strategic performance dashboard). Our mandate to execute 
the strategy is guided by strategic focus areas, which we have maintained for the past three years. Material issues that 
emerged in this financial year (briefly described in the board review) are detailed here. 

Strategic  
focus areas

Improve 
Exxaro’s 
portfolio 

Material issue

Business 
resilience

KPI used to track achievement of strategic priority and 
response to material issue (looking back)

Core operating margin (%) – financial capital 

People productivity (total tonnages handled/full-time employee 
(FTE) average) – manufactured capital

People productivity (production tonnes/FTE) – 
manufactured capital

Growth from coal commodities (percentage deviation from 
budget) – manufactured capital

Successful criminal/civil liability claims – human capital

Risk 
(looking to  
the future)

Cost 
competitiveness 
of products

Combined 
assurance 
level

Tier 2, 3

Commodity price 
volatility

Tier 3

Dependency on 
Eskom

Core operating margin (%) – financial capital 

Commodity diversification – manufactured capital

Dependency on 
Eskom as key 
customer

Product 
substitution

Capital projects

Project delivery measure (time and cost variance from plan) – 
manufactured capital

Capital project 
execution

Tier 2, 3

Tier 1, 2

Tier 1, 2, 3

Demonstrate 
responsibility 
and 
accountability

Licence to operate 
(refers to all rights, 
licences and 
authorisations 
needed before a 
prospecting and 
mining operation 
can begin. This 
includes the health 
and safety of 
workers and 
contractors) 

Achieving 
operational 
and financial 
excellence 

Operating 
efficiencies

Fatalities (months without a fatality) – human capital

Safety concerns

Tier 1, 2, 3

LTIFR – human capital

Stoppage directives – human capital

Occupational health injury-frequency rate (OHIFR) – 
human capital

Reportable cases of occupational diseases – human capital

HIV/AIDS prevalence rate – human capital

Valid mining rights – percentage in place (%) – mine works plan, 
environmental management plan, social and labour plans – 
natural capital

Enforceable mining rights – based on conditions – percentage in 
place (%) – natural capital

Environmental authorisations percentage in place (validity)  
(IWUL, EIA, waste) – natural capital

Environmental authorisations compliance to conditions (%) – 
natural capital

Water intensity – natural capital

Carbon footprint – natural capital

BBBEE level – social capital

Mining charter elements (detailed in supplementary report) – 
social capital

Fraud and corruption – human capital

Project delivery measure (time and cost variance from plan) – 
manufactured capital

Annualised return on capital employed (ROCE) (%) – 
financial capital

Growth from coal commodities (% deviation from budget) – 
manufactured capital

People productivity (total tonnages handled/FTE average) – 
manufactured capital

People productivity (production tonnes/FTE) – 
manufactured capital

Growth from coal commodities (% deviation from budget) – 
manufactured capital

Compliance to 
environmental 
legislation

Tier 1, 2, 3

Maintain a social 
licence to 
operate

Tier 1, 2 ,3

Fraud and 
corruption

Infrastructure 
access and 
capacity

Tier 2, 3

Tier 2,3

Unable to meet 
production 
demands

Tier 2,3

Develop 
Exxaro’s 
leadership and 
people

Employees

Talent bench – human capital

Labour unrest

Tier 2,3

Skills provision – human capital

Skills retention – human capital

Organisational culture assessment – human capital

HIV awareness training and testing – human capital

HIV prevalence rate – human capital

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015EXECUTIVE REVIEW (CONTINUED)

The tool we use to determine whether we are on track to achieve our objectives is the Exxaro strategic performance 
dashboard. As explained in the board review, this dashboard has built-in risk appetite thresholds to ensure the company’s 
decisions in pursuing its strategic objectives are in line with the risk threshold which, as a whole, makes up the risk appetite 
of the group. 

How to interpret the dashboard

The dashboard lists all key performance indicators linked to a strategic priority/sustainability capital/strategic objective 
and material issue. Current performance and the status of the indicator (shown as a bulb in legend column) reflects 
whether the KPI is within our risk appetite thresholds. We aim to be within the target threshold: anything outside worst 
tolerable and target means we act outside our defined risk appetite in pursuing our strategic objectives. This will require 
additional treatment or improving existing controls.

An example of a KPI measure below

Exxaro has a strategic objective of improving our portfolio; one of many KPIs linked to this objective is core operating 
margin. Anything outside of worst tolerable and target will mean that we act outside our defined risk appetite in the 
pursuance of our strategic objectives and this will require additional control or improving existing controls.

KPI current performance

KPI

Core operating margin (%)

KPI threshold

Current 
Performance

Legend 
(indicator)

18%

KPI

Out of appetite Worst tolerable Best realistic

Target

Possible waste/
opportunity

Threshold

Core operating margin

Legend

Less than  
15%

15%

Between  
15% and 20%

20%

More than  
20%

  Out of appetite 

  Worst tolerable 

  Best realistic 

  Target 

  Possible waste/opportunity

REVIEW OF PERFORMANCE AGAINST 
MATERIAL ISSUES
The board introduced the material issues in its review, 
while we detail our performance against material KPIs 
(from our strategic performance dashboard) linked to 
each material issue. We also expand on our stakeholder 
engagement during the year for each material issue 
and on the main risks we encountered and associated 
identified controls in responding to these issues. 

How to understand  
the discussion

•  Consolidated table summarising performance
•  Discussion of material issue, expanding on 

performance and our response during the year

•  Referencing stakeholder engagement initiatives and 

interventions in response to the material issue

•  Extract from risk register applicable to the 

material issue

Although the discussion of each material issue refers to 
performance in the associated/linked KPIs, it is broader 
than merely KPI performance. Equally, drawing a direct 
correlation between a material issue and KPI may not be 
possible in all cases and some KPIs also refer to more than 
one material issue.

The associated KPIs do, however, give our stakeholders 
a holistic view of the metrics that inform strategic 
performance management in each of the areas.

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Business resilience

Material issue

Key performance indicator

Business resilience

Core operating margin (%)

Funds from operations to net debt (%)

Sustainability 
capital

Current 
performance

Legend 
(indicator)

Financial

Financial

18

2

6

4

Annualised return on capital employed (ROCE) (%)

Financial

Annualised return on equity based on core headline 
earnings (%)

Financial

Annual core HEPS (cents per share short-term target)

Financial

425c

Net debt to equity (%) 

Net debt to annualised earnings before interest tax, 
depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) (times)

EBITDA interest cover (times)

Financial

Financial

Financial

People productivity (total tonnages handled/FTE average) 
(% improvement from a base)
People productivity (production tonnes/FTE)  
(% improvement from a base)
Growth from coal commodities (percentage deviation 
from budget) 
Core assets (priority 1 operating solutions) overall 
performance against service-level agreement  
(% availability)

Manufactured 

Manufactured 

Manufactured 

Manufactured 

Asset availability of enterprise resource planning (%)

Manufactured 

23

1

12

18

16

(4)

99

99

The primary KPIs and general performance under 
this material issue relate to financial capital, although 
our responses also impacted operational efficiencies 
and employees and therefore broader capitals, as 
discussed later. 

Despite the difficult environment, the group recorded a net 
operating profit for the period of R3 173 million compared 
to a net operating loss of R3 292 million in 2014, mainly due 
to the Medupi power station ramp-up and non-recurrence 
of pre-tax impairments of the carrying value of the Mayoko 
iron ore project non-current assets and intellectual 
property asset of R5 962 million in 2014, offset by 2015 
pre-tax impairments of the carrying value of goodwill 
recognised on the acquisition of TCSA (R1  524 million) 
and the reductants operation’s property, plant and 
equipment of R225 million (as also discussed in the audit 
committee report).

Earnings attributable to owners of the parent, which 
include Exxaro’s equity-accounted investments in 
associates and joint ventures, were R296 million 
(2014: attributable losses of R883 million) or 83 cents 
earnings per share (2014: 249 cents losses per share), 
an increase of 134% mainly due to non-recurring post-tax 
impairment losses in 2014.

Headline earnings, excluding the impact of any impairment, 
impairment reversals and profits or losses realised on 
the sale of subsidiaries and other non-core assets, were 
67% lower at R1 623 million (2014: R4 869 million) or 
457 cents per share (2014: 1 372 cents per share), mainly 
due to a R3 652 million (145%) reduction in post-tax 
equity-accounted income from associates (primarily SIOC 
and Tronox).

Also noted in the board review, in 2015, we received 96% 
lower equity-accounted income and 78% lower dividends 
compared to 2014, largely attributable SIOC to the 
deteriorating iron ore price which necessitated reconfiguring 
the Sishen pit. This, together with the significant impact of 
a weaker iron ore price outlook, resulted in an impairment 
charge (both pre-tax) for Sishen mine of R6 billion and 
Exxaro’s share is R1,2 billion. Equity-accounted losses from 
the Tronox investment were R1 503 million, compared to 
R568 million in 2014. This was mainly due to our share of 
stock write-downs to the lower of cost or net realisable 
value and higher consulting fees and financing costs on the 
Alkali chemicals business acquisition in 2015. 

Equity-accounted losses of R53 million from Cennergi for 
2015 improved by 42% compared to the R92 million loss 
in 2014, mainly due a successful cost-reduction initiative 
focused on both labour and non-labour cost. 

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An extract from our summarised annual financial statements provides further context.

Audited group statement of comprehensive income

For the year ended 31 December 2015

Revenue
Operating expenses

Operating profit
Other income 
Impairment charges of non-current assets

Net operating profit/(loss) 
Finance income
Finance costs 
Income from financial assets
Share of (loss)/income from equity-accounted 
investments 

Profit/(loss) before tax
Income tax expense

Profit/(loss) for the year
Other comprehensive income/(loss), net of tax

Items that will not be reclassified to profit or loss

–  Remeasurement of post-employment benefit 

obligation

–  Share of comprehensive income/(loss) of equity-

accounted investments

2015
Rm

 18 330 
 (13 408)

 4 922 

 (1 749)

 3 173 
 102 
 (770)
 1 

 (1 137)

 1 369 
 (1 102)

 267 
 2 167 

 124 

 (17)

 141 

2014
Rm

 16 401 
 (15 197)

 1 204 
 1 466 
 (5 962)

 (3 292)
 80 
 (183)
 9 

 2 515 

 (871)
 (13)

 (884)
 1 190 

 (316)

 (316)

Items that may be subsequently reclassified to profit 
or loss

 2 043 

 1 506 

–  Unrealised gains on translation of foreign 

operations

–  Revaluation of financial assets available-for-sale 
–  Share of comprehensive income of equity-

accounted investments

 329 
 (141)

 1 855 

 224 
 345 

 937 

Total comprehensive income for the year

 2 434 

 306 

Profit/(loss) attributable to:
Owners of the parent
Non-controlling interests

Profit/(loss) for the year

Total comprehensive income/(loss) attributable 
to:
Owners of the parent
Non-controlling interests

Total comprehensive income for the year

Attributable earnings/(loss) per share (cents)
Aggregate
– Basic
– Diluted

 296 
 (29)

 267 

 2 463 
 (29)

 2 434 

 (883)
 (1)

 (884)

 307 
 (1)

 306 

 83 
 83 

 (249)
 (249)

2014 
Shortfall income from customers

2015 
ECC goodwill (R1 524 million) and Reductants 
operation property, plant and equipment 
(R225 million)

2014 
Mayoko iron ore project (R5 760 million) and 
intellectual property (R202 million)

2015 
The Belfast project is classified as a qualifying 
asset and minimal expenditure was incurred on 
this project, as such borrowing costs capitalised 
were limited

2014 
Interest expenses mainly capitalised to the 
Grootegeluk Medupi expansion project qualifying 
asset, which was completed

2015 
42% decline in iron ore prices, 24% decline in TiO2 
prices and Exxaro’s share of R6 billion impairment 
charges negatively impacted share of equity-
accounted (loss)/income from associates SIOC 
and Tronox

2015 
Mainly relating to the derecognition of deferred tax 
assets which increased the tax expense

2015 
The year-on-year increase relates mainly to 
Exxaro’s share of Tronox’s foreign currency 
translation reserve movements as well Cennergi’s 
financial instruments revaluations

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015The local metals and reductants markets struggled to 
compete with Chinese imports, weak demand and low 
international metals prices. 

In the reductants markets, various companies in the 
ferroalloy industry continued to face financial difficulty as 
they struggled to compete globally due to low ferroalloy 
prices and high local electricity prices. Given the impact 
of poor demand on the offtake of semi-coke from our 
Reductants operation, we have placed the char plant on 
care-and-maintenance.

Ferrous
Considerably improved financial results from this division 
are not comparable given that they primarily reflect 
the non-recurring pre-tax impairment loss recorded in 
2014 for the Mayoko iron ore project (R5,7 billion). Net 
operating losses reduced 95% from R6 238 million in 2014 
to R306 million in 2015, mainly due to the non-recurring  
pre-tax impairment loss recorded in 2014 for the Mayoko 
project, reduced operational activities at Mayoko 
(R69 million) and closure of the loss-making AlloyStream 
operation in the first quarter of 2015 (R108 million). 
Included in 2015 net operating loss is a once-off tax 
expense provision relating to non-income-based taxes of 
R156 million recorded after receipt of the assessment. 
Exxaro will vigorously contest this assessment by 
following the appropriate process.

EXECUTIVE REVIEW (CONTINUED)

Coal (also refer dependency on Eskom)
Coal revenue rose 12% from 2014, mainly from commercial 
mines, on a combination of higher export sales volumes 
(including ECC since September) at weaker rand exchange 
rates and international prices, higher Medupi power 
station coal sales and lower domestic steam volumes at 
lower prices.

This first-class performance from our coal team saw the 
business realise a 29% increase in core net operating 
profit at a 24% margin, albeit at 23% lower average  
US$/tonne realised prices. The group realised an average 
export price of US$50 per tonne in 2015 compared to 
US$65 in 2014.

We were forced to cancel trains to RBCT due to low coal 
demand from the Indian market, but on the positive 
side continued to develop new markets and, in 2015, 
we succeeded in delivering some coal to North Africa 
and the Middle East.

Domestic coal trading conditions remained challenging in 
2015. Despite an oversupplied export thermal coal market, 
we recorded good demand for our export coal. Export 
volumes rose from 5,3Mt to 6,2Mt, mainly on additional 
volumes from ECC. 

Sales volumes were 1,95Mt higher (5%), also due to 
increased Medupi offtake and the inclusion of ECC.

Production volumes (excluding buy-ins) were 2,66Mt (7%) 
higher than 2014, mainly due to the ramp-up on Medupi 
supply and inclusion of ECC from September 2015 (1,37Mt).

Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) performance from our 
Mpumalanga mines to RBCT remained on schedule. 
However, rail performance on the North-West corridor 
remains a key concern as it impacts materially on 
Grootegeluk’s ability to dispatch trains to RBCT and 
AMSA. Active engagement with TFR has confirmed its 
commitment to ensuring adequate rail performance levels 
are reached and maintained. We will continue to align our 
Waterberg production with TFR’s rail ramp-up schedule. 

0,6

1,2

1,6

1,1

0,7

1,5

1,5
0,6

1,4
0,4

1,3

1,1

0,8

1,3

1,3

1,9

2,1

3,8

1,0

1,0

1,1

3,6

1,1

1,0
0,5

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016*

2017*

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1,6

1,6

1,2

2011

Other

Inyanda

Matube

Grootgeluk

ECC

* Based on latest internal foreast

Exports per mine (Mt)

On the export-allocation profile, we expect Inyanda tonnes to be replaced 
by ECC, Belfast and Grootegeluk tonnes in future.

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ENHANCING CUSTOMER 
RELATIONS
Coal markets, alongside broader 
commodity markets, have undergone 
material changes in the past five years. 
Earlier in the decade, we saw the 
exuberant rise in commodity prices on 
the back of unprecedented Chinese 
demand amid infrastructure-led growth, 
allowing this country to become the 
dominant consumer of nearly every 
bulk commodity. ‘Stronger for longer’ 
became the new mantra for commodity 
producers and massive amounts of 
capital have been invested in production 
expansions and new projects to feed the 
proverbial dragon.

This situation has reversed in the 
past three years as China moves 
towards a greener, consumption-driven 
economy and reduces its demand for 
commodities. In coal alone, imports 
into China have declined by 31% year 
on year, while Europe has scaled down 
on coal consumption materially as 
renewables satisfy the energy baseload.

We are now witnessing an oversupply in 
most commodities as demand remains 
largely stagnant, with Indian and  
south-east Asian growth not yet 
compensating for lower Chinese 
demand. Specifically in coal, seaborne 
supply from producers has not been 
reduced in response to the oversupply, 
except for the USA and Indonesia. 
Australia, Colombia and Russia are still 
expanding their coal exports, cushioned 
against lower dollar-based prices by 
depreciating home currencies.

Changing customer behaviours in 
export markets
Until 2012, Exxaro sold the bulk of 
its export coal via traders and end-
consumers into the European market. 
These transactions were dominated 
by term agreements based on long-
standing relationships.

Since then, the portfolio of export 
products has changed and, in line with 
our strategic decision to diversify our 
markets geographically, new export 
markets were developed. 

Case study

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MFB RB1

RB1

Lean coal

RB3

Power station 
coal

2015 export product mix (%)

New markets, combined with oversupply 
in global coal markets, have changed 
consumer behaviour: it is now a buyer’s 
market with buyers spoilt for choice.

As Exxaro edges closer to Eastern and 
Pacific markets, the more apparent it 
becomes that customer relationships 
are short term and typically based on 
the next deal or vessel. Excellence in 
customer relationships and service does 
not necessarily directly translate into 
more sales.

However, sustaining customer 
relationships remains vital to ensure we 
are given an opportunity to compete. As 
such, Exxaro is focused on maintaining 
very healthy relationships with both 
end-consumers and trading companies 
to ensure effective channels to market.

Customer relationships in the 
domestic market
Exxaro has long-established 
relationships in the domestic market. In 
the metals segment in particular these 
are regarded as strategic partnerships 
as all parties accept the symbiotic 
nature of the relationship. 

Since the fall in commodity prices 
worldwide, local markets have come 
under immense pressure. This is best 
demonstrated by ArcelorMittal as it 
deals with low-priced Chinese imports. 
The Exxaro/AMSA relationship has 
weathered many commodity cycles over 
the years, and each is fundamentally 
aware of the other’s business drivers 
and collateral impact of any negative 
event. This has allowed us to develop a 
solid partnership, demonstrated

by interaction at all levels of both 
businesses in the current commodity 
crisis.

Similarly, relationships in the domestic 
steam coal segment are very valuable. 
This is especially evident in the kiln sub-
segment (mostly the cement market), 
where Exxaro has a dominant market 
share. The boiler sub-segment is a more 
opportunistic market, requiring more 
interaction and maintenance in terms of 
customer relationship management.

Eskom remains a key customer, with 
complex business and governance 
processes. Exxaro is the largest supplier 
to Eskom and it is essential to maintain 
this relationship, given the power 
utility’s volume of offtake of our coal 
production and therefore contribution 
to total revenue.

4

15

3

35

33

4

3

3

Reunion

Europe

Japan

UAE

Egypt

India

Morocco

Other

2015 export sales destinations (%)

6

1

4

25

64

Metals (AMSA)

Metals (other)

Domestic steam

Power station (captive)

Power station (commercial)

2015 domestic sales volumes (%)

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16

12

8

4

0

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

6

4

2

0

Cash flow and net debt
Cash preservation remained key to managing our business 
through this challenging period. As noted in the board review and 
elsewhere, we continued to critically assess our overall project 
pipeline and the timing of cash flows to prioritise and preserve 
capital. Cash flow generated from operations was R443 million 
higher at R4 526 million (2014: R4 083 million), used to pay for 
capital expenditure of R2 390 million, dividends of R984 million, 
net financing charges of R446 million and taxation of R85 million. 

Net debt increased to R3 012 million, up 181% on R1 071 million 
in 2014, reflecting a net debt to equity ratio of 8,8% (at 
31 December 2014: 3,1%). The increase was mainly due to funding 
the TCSA acquisition in August 2015. We remain within our 
financial covenants terms. This is, again, testimony to the success 
of immediate steps we took to ensure our business resilience and 
place us in a much better position to continue weathering difficult 
market conditions.

Our South African credit rating was downgraded in the first half of 
2015 by Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services from A- to BBB+. We 
began a process to refinance our R8 billion debt facilities and have 
received sufficient expressions of interest from potential lenders, 
confirming there is an appetite to refinance the facility, which we 
intend to close in the second quarter of 2016.

Revenue (Rbn)

NOP (Rm)

Changes in net debt

Core coal revenue and net operating profit

R million

4 081

(1 342)

(177)

3 012

Investing
activities

Dividends
received

Other

Net debt
Dec 2015

1 071

(4 526)

Net debt
Dec 2014

446

Cash
generated

Net
financing
costs

2 390

984

Capex

85

Tax

Dividends

We have engaged with employees specifically on the need for 
change and Exxaro’s sustainability (see R1 billion challenge, 
discussed under operating efficiencies).  As noted in the board 
review, reducing our headcount was a last resort, culminating in the 
voluntary separation initiative also discussed under employees.  

Shareholder concerns focused on Exxaro’s cash-generating capacity 
and ability to maintain growth and consistent dividend payouts.  The 
cost and capex management programme and the performance of the 
coal business have enabled Exxaro to remain cash positive, maintain 
low levels of debt as well as the dividend payout ratio.

We held discussions with the DMR in 2015 to secure the section 
11 transfer of the ECC mining licences to Exxaro.  As discussed 
elsewhere, we were required to commit to further empowering the 
ECC assets to secure this transfer.

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An extract from our summarised annual financial statements provides further context.

Audited group statement of financial position
At 31 December 2015

ASSETS
Non-current assets

Property, plant and equipment
Biological assets
Intangible assets
Investments in associates 
Investments in joint ventures
Financial assets
Deferred tax

Current assets

Inventories
Trade and other receivables
Tax receivable
Cash and cash equivalents 

Non-current assets held-for-sale

2015
Rm

2014
Rm

 46 482 

 41 408 

 20 412 
 51 
 56 
 19 690 
 1 662 
 4 067 
 544 

 6 016 

 1 240 
 2 666 
 55 
 2 055 

 128 

 18 344 
 84 
 34 
 18 588 
 966 
 2 853 
 539 

 5 693 

 998 
 2 611 
 78 
 2 006 

 328 

Total assets

 52 626 

 47 429 

EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
Capital and other components of equity
Share capital
Other components of equity
Retained earnings

Equity attributable to owners of the parent
Non-controlling interests

Total equity
Non-current liabilities

Interest-bearing borrowings
Provisions
Post-retirement employee obligations
Financial liabilities 
Deferred tax

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables
Shareholder loans
Interest-bearing borrowings
Tax payable
Provisions
Overdraft 

Non-current liabilities held-for-sale

 2 445 
 6 911 
 25 670 

 35 026 
 (800)

 34 226 
 12 701 

 4 185 
 3 112 
 217 
 116 
 5 071 

 4 655 

 3 546 
 21 
 882 
 48 
 158 

 1 044 

 2 409 
 6 031 
 25 985 

 34 425 

 34 425 
 9 182 

 2 976 
 2 219 
 167 
 88 
 3 732 

 3 590 

 3 208 

 34 
 27 
 254 
 67 

 232 

Total equity and liabilities

 52 626 

 47 429 

2015 
Year-on-year increase mainly due to additional 
interests acquired through the TCSA acquisition 
in the second half of 2015, share of this subsidiary 
group’s reserve movements and net results in 
associates and joint ventures

2015 
Mainly due to increased shareholder contribution 
into the Cennergi joint venture

2015 
Includes indemnification asset (R1 044 million) 
as a result of a contractual agreement between 
Total S.A. and Exxaro on any claims by a third 
party in relation to the sale of ECC’s interest in a 
joint operation

2015 
Assets relate to the proposed sale of the corporate 
office building and liabilities relate to the acquired 
liabilities of the Ermelo joint venture (part of the 
TCSA group), which was already in the process of 
sale when Exxaro acquired the TCSA group

2014 
Related mainly to the assets and liabilities of NCC, 
which were subsequently sold in 2015

2015 
Includes non-controlling interests arising from the 
TCSA acquired group

2015 
Increase mainly due to the acquisition of 
subsidiaries ECC

2015 
We drew R2 billion from our senior loan facility of 
R8 billion, leaving R3 billion undrawn. We expect 
to refinance this facility in 2016. We also repaid 
over R2 billion of interest-bearing debt (including 
the overdraft recorded in 2014)

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To ensure we remain resilient for the foreseeable future, we need to address the cost competitiveness of our products and 
consider how best (for aspects within our control) to respond to commodity price volatility.

The table below expands on these risks, our critical controls and the year-on-year trend, based on the residual risck score.

As commodity markets remained in surplus (low demand and oversupply), prices where subdued, resulting in related risks 
increasing, despite controls and mitigating actions.

Risk 
number

Strategic 
objective

Risk and 
source

Long/
medium/
short-
term 
risk

Critical controls

Residual risk score 
2014

Trend

Residual risk score 
2015

Impact  Probability

Impact  Probability

4

3

Achieve 
operational 
and 
financial 
excellence

Cost 
competitiveness 
of products

Short/
medium

External and 
Internal

•   Create strategic joint ventures to optimise 

economies of scale 

•   Focus on sustainable cost reduction
•   Business improvement initiatives/

programmes

•   Investigate and divest non-core assets
•   Re-optimise capital fleet – mine haul trucks, 

light vehicles, shovels etc

•   Review and monitor the performance of 

suppliers and service providers

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Achieve 
operational 
and 
financial 
excellence

Commodity 
price volatility

External

Short

•   Develop a communication plan that quickly 

communicates changes to operations

•   Consider how changes to the above affect 

risk appetite

•   Improve the speed of mine planning to match 

price volatility

•   Match commodity prices to customer base
•   Negotiate long-term fixed-price contracts 

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Material issue

Key performance indicator

Sustainability 
capital

Current 
performance

Legend 
(indicator)

Dependency on 
Eskom

Core operating margin (%)

Financial

18

Commodity diversification

Manufactured

CCR, ferrous, 
mineral 
sands, 
energy

The group relies on two major customers (AMSA and 
Eskom) for its revenue, at 13% and 53% (2014: 15% and 
49%) respectively. Exxaro’s sales volumes to Eskom were 
92% of total sales, supporting close to a third of Eskom’s 
power-generation capacity.

In 2015, several deliberations between the board and 
the executive committee were held on the group’s 
dependency on Eskom as a major customer. The outcome 
focused on positioning our coal business to deliver coal 
cost-efficiently to customers. As noted by the board, we 
continue to work with Eskom to ensure electricity supply 
to South Africa, while maximising export revenue to 
benefit from the weaker exchange rate.

The board review noted that the materiality of this issue 
had increased in 2015, largely due to three factors: 
•  The SRC committee’s decision to cease production 

at Matla mine 1 (after Eskom’s delays in spending the 
requisite capital)

•  As part of our continued engagement with Eskom 

on later dates to commission Medupi power station’s 
next five units, we had initial discussions on a possible 
addendum 10 to the GMEP CSA, to review options 
available to both parties to reduce future take-or-pay 
obligations. Deliveries to Eskom were, however, in line 
with addendum 9

•  Eskom’s notice to terminate the Arnot CSA.

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Eskom issued Exxaro with a notice that the offtake of coal 
from Arnot mine would stop after 31 December 2015 (refer 
SRC committee report). Since then, all production has 
ceased and an official retrenchment procedure (section 
189 process under the Labour Relations Act) was declared. 
Discussions continue with Eskom on the closure and 
rehabilitation of this mine (Exxaro owns the mining right 
while Eskom owns the assets and is responsible for the 
ultimate mine rehabilitation and post-closure obligations).

Exxaro acknowledges and recognises the long-term 
relationship we have developed with Eskom over the 
40-year tenure of the CSA. We continue to value this 
relationship, which we anticipate will continue in terms 
of our remaining coal supplies from other operations. 

Our response is firstly to protect the relationship 
with Eskom through continuous engagement at both 
operational and corporate levels. Further ensuring a 
consistent and reliable supply through existing CSA's is 
critical to fostering a mutually beneficial relationship. 
Secondly the acquisition of extra export entitlement will 
provide access to more offshore customers in regions that 
are growing through coal-based electricity generation. 

Completion of ECC transaction 
On 20 August 2015, the group acquired 100% of the share 
capital of TCSA (now ECC) for cash of US$262 million  
(R3 381 million) from Total Societé Anonyme plus a maximum 
additional amount of US$120 million structured in a series 
of deferred payments linked to the performance of the API4 
price between 2015 and 2019 (contingent consideration). 

As noted in the board review, our strategic rationale for 
this acquisition was to increase the scale of the group’s 
export allocation and coal portfolio and further entrench 
Exxaro as a premier coal producer in South Africa. ECC 
also complements our strategic imperative to focus 
on our coal business in the short to medium-term and 
provides access to primary RBCT export entitlement – 
an opportunity that seldom arises.

The board review and audit committee report dealt 
with our ability to negotiate a reduced purchase price 
(following market volatility), as well as the unfortunate 
need to impair the goodwill.

Risk 
number

Strategic 
objective

Risk and 
source

Long/
medium/
short-
term 
risk

Critical controls

Since acquisition, we have focused on improving the 
profitability and cash flow of these assets, producing 
mainly for lower-grade export markets. Opportunities 
include different quality grades and volumes, as well as 
cutting overheads (following due process, retrenchments 
were limited to 33 people and concluded early in 2016).

To optimise ECC, we are implementing our operating 
philosophy and the Exxaro operational excellence 
methodology by:
•  Adding a fifth 4-seam section at Forzando South which 

is expected to contribute 200kt to 2016 production

•  Optimising the resource-to-market value chain through 
plant and product-mix adjustments, taking the acquired 
export entitlement into account (evaluating 4 800kcal 
and 5 300kcal option combinations for 2016)

•  Rolling out cost-saving initiatives across all operations 

(R80 million)

•  Exploring available adjacent reserves to extend the 

current life of mine

•  Exploring the Eskom market as a potential customer 
•  The capital expenditure plan is continuously being 
reviewed and only critical capital expenditure is 
approved until the actions above have been finalised.

As part of the DMR’s conditions for approving the transfer 
of ECC mineral rights to Exxaro, we are required to 
include additional BEE participation in the shareholding 
of ECC assets. This has been combined with the broader 
empowerment ownership project currently under way at 
group level.

We remain confident about the long-term strategic 
value of acquiring the ECC assets, especially the 
export entitlement.

Exxaro's integrated risk management approach, linked to 
our strategic focus areas, has helped us to address our 
reliance on Eskom as a key customer. In our last integrated 
report, we highlighted that one of our control measures to 
mitigate this risk was to increase our export allocation. This 
was fully implemented on completing the ECC transaction.

The table below expands on these risks, critical controls and 
the year-on-year trend, based on the residual risk score.

Residual risk score 
2014

Trend

Residual risk score 
2015

Impact  probability

Impact  probability

1

6

Achieve 
operational 
and 
financial 
excellence

Dependency 
on Eskom  
as key 
customer

External

Short/
medium

•   Broadening local and international customer 

base (incl acquisition of ECC)

•    Establishment of bespoke rehabilitation 

trust fund 

•   Cessation of operational activities at Arnot 
(develop a detailed closure plan for Arnot) 

•   Conduct studies for environmental 

programme report 

•   Conduct social impact studies for Arnot
•   Renegotiate Medupi CSA (addendum 10) 
•   Oppose the payment of penalties
•   Terminate discussions on commercialisation 

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•   Implement diversification strategy 
•   Proactive engagement with stakeholders 
•   Monitor interdependent sectors

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Licence to operate

Material issue

Key performance indicator

Licence to operate

Ownership overall group (%) – mining charter

Employment equity (%) in top, senior and middle 
management at every business unit – mining charter

People living with disabilities (%) – mining charter

Human resources development (% of payroll excl levies, 
incl internal and external training) – mining charter 
Woman in mining (%) (internal target as mining charter 
does not have specific targets)

Preferential procurement (%) – capital 

Preferential procurement (%) – services

Preferential procurement (%) – goods 

BBBEE level (BBBEE measures group performance 
against targets – new codes effective  
1 May 2015) – BBBEE codes
Skills development – learning programmes for black 
people and people living with disabilities – target set as % 
of payroll to accommodate for exclusion of mandatory 
sectoral training – BBBEE codes
Project delivery measure (%) – local economic development 
(LED) projects per social and labour plan (SLP)

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Social

Fatality frequency rate (FFR) per 200 000 man hours*

Human

Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) per 200 000 
man hours* 

Lost time injuries (LTIs)

Occupational health incident frequency rate (OHIFR)* – rate 
per 200 000 man hours. Includes chronic obstructive 
airways disease (COAD), pneumoconiosis, noise-induced 
hearing loss (NIHL), silicosis, occupational TB 

Human

Human

Human

Number of reportable cases of environmental incidents*

Natural

Valid mining rights – % in place – mine works plan (MWP), 
environmental management plan (EMP) and SLP 
Enforceable mining rights – based on conditions – % 
in place 

Natural

Natural

Environmental authorisations (%) in place (validity) (IWUL), 
environmental impact assessment (EIA), waste) 

Natural

Environmental authorisations compliance to conditions 
(%)
Number of stoppage directives (includes section 54 under 
MHSA, section 93 under MPRDA and stoppage directives 
under NWA and NEMA) 
(%) environmental liability provisions in place (gap 
between immediate closure cost and rehabilitation funds 
available, incl guarantees) 
Material compliance to King III, full compliance to JSE 
Listings Requirements and Companies Act 

Natural

Natural

Natural

Financial

*  PwC external assurance. Refer to supplementary report.

Sustainability 
capital

Current 
performance

Legend 
(indicator)

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1,2

6,8

20

40

70

77

Level 2

2

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0,17

29

0,36

18x level 2  
and 0x level 3
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98

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The safety of our people is fundamental to our business, 
and we will not rest until we consistently achieve our 
safety goals through collective responsibility, commitment 
and ongoing focus. As part of this focus, all operational 
business units, including ECC mines, have international 
health and safety accreditation (OHSAS 18001).

By December 2015, Exxaro had recorded another 
outstanding performance by operating for over 18 months 
without a mining-related fatality. This followed our first 
fatality-free year in 2013, and a rolling 12-month fatality-
free period in 2014 – proof that our target of zero fatalities 
is attainable and that no death is acceptable. 

As noted by the SRC committee, a material achievement 
in 2015 was our lowest LTIFR of 0,17. This is an 11% 
improvement on the LTIFR reported for 2014 and 
significantly below the peak of 0,39 in 2008 (56% 
improvement). 

Our LTIFR also remains about 30% lower than our coal-
industry peers and although still out of appetite, the 
improving trend is extremely encouraging.

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0,20

0,15

0,10

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2012

2013

Year

2014

2015

LTIFR

Fatalities

Safety performance

We recorded 29 LTIs against an aspiration of zero harm. 

The most common incidents were leg and ankle injuries 
followed by hand injuries. The highest number of LTIs were 
recorded at Matla, Grootegeluk and Arnot. 

We have focused programmes to empower safety, health 
and environmental representatives with the knowledge 
to identify risks better and contribute more effectively to 
reducing safety risks in the workplace. 

In 2015, only two Mine Health and Safety Act 29 of 1996, 
as amended, (MHSA) section 54 directives were issued 
by the DMR at Arnot and Matla for identified unsafe 
practices. These were both resolved immediately to 
the satisfaction of the DMR. There were no section 55 
directives issued by the DMR for any contraventions of the 
MHSA. We have had a positive trend since 2010 in reducing 
directives issued after rolling out an internal section 54 
inspectorate programmes at all business units, authorising 
appointed employees to stop unsafe activities and, in time, 
prevent accidents.

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2012

2013

2014

2015

Section 54

Section 55

Safety stoppage directives

In engaging with employees on safety, we focused on 
visible felt leadership (VFL), hazard identification, and 
response training and leadership empowerment in the 
workplace. The early benefits of more stringent safety 
practices are evident in fewer section 54 directives (safety 
stoppages) issued by the DMR.

Exxaro aims to have every mining right valid and to 
comply with all conditions and stipulations for each licence 
and right granted. We define the validity of a mining 
right by having its three pillars in place: the MWP, EMP, 
and SLPs.

Our analysis shows our mining rights are 98% valid, with the 
variance largely due to Strathrae, which has not started mining 
yet and has therefore not implemented its MWP and SLP.

Every right, licence and permit granted has detailed 
compliance stipulations. These have been recorded in 
a central tracking system for every mine and are being 
actively monitored. In 2015 we focused on improving our 
compliance to the stipulations. 

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We define the enforceability of our mining rights 
by section 93 and section 47 directives issued, any 
section 102 to request amendments to MWPs, EMPs or 
SLPs. In addition, it includes submitting reports to the 
DMR describing future mining activities.

We achieved an overall enforceability score of 98%, 
largely due to resubmitting the Leeuwpan SLP after 
an amendment.

Exxaro measures environmental authorisations on 
two levels: IWULs granted, and environmental impact 
assessments approved. The reasons for this KPI being 
below tolerable levels are mainly delays in water use 
licences, but also include:
•  The Arnot and Matla rehabilitation provisions were 

initially lagging, but steadily improved through 2015. 
The  gap between immediate closure costs and provisions 
made by Eskom still needs to be closed further

•  Delays in obtaining environmental licences for new 

projects for the Glisa water treatment plant
•  Delays in finalising appeals lodged against the 

Thabametsi and Belfast projects.

Delays and appeals against IWULs granted by the 
Department of Water and Sanitation have become a risk 
for new projects and are becoming part of the critical path 
of projects. To mitigate these long lead times in receiving 
the necessary permits and licences, we are engaging early 
with the respective regulators. Stakeholder engagement 
with every interested and affected party impacted by 
projects is also being proactively undertaken.

Our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are currently not 
an immediate risk to our licence to operate. However, 
the outcomes of COP21 held in 2015, also known as the 
Paris agreement, will have an impact on every country’s 
management and reduction of carbon emissions. 
Expectations are that initiatives will become more 
stringent and eventually a compliance requirement.

Paris COP21 and its impact on South Africa

Progress at the 2015 United Nations (UN) climate change conference (COP21 or the Paris agreement) has 
important (potential) ramifications for the mining industry in South Africa stemming from the national climate 
action plan submitted by our government. 

Broadly, the Paris agreement reflects a hybrid approach, blending bottom-up flexibility to achieve wide 
participation, with top-down rules to promote accountability and goals.

South Africa pledged to reduce GHG emissions by 42% by 2025 compared to the business-as-usual scenario. 
The country’s plan goes further than most by committing to quantified emissions levels in specific years and by 
announcing a peak year for emissions.

We have analysed the potential implications for Exxaro, summarised below:

Impact

Implication

Exxaro will need new skill sets: climate 
change scientist, energy efficiency 
engineers, environmental engineers and 
environmental strategist.

Timeline

1-2 years

South Africa will push forward with legislative 
reforms on GHG mitigation (eg carbon tax, 
offsets and budgets as well as GHG reporting). 
This reflects the country’s ambition to lead the 
Africa group and assumes a permanent seat on 
the UN security council. More onerous GHG 
reporting and mitigation initiatives will be 
required. 

South Africa is likely to use climate change 
adaptation as part of broader social redress 
and development in poor and vulnerable 
communities.

International financing for new coal projects is 
likely to come under pressure as investors may 
not be willing to make funds available or be 
pressured by their governments to stop 
supporting coal projects.

Long-term coal exports to mainly European 
countries could come under immense 
pressure, eg high import tariffs.

•  SLPs might require climate-change 

1-5 years

adaptation projects

•  Corporate social investment contribution 

to climate-change adaptation projects will 
be expected

•  Licence conditions could become more 
stringent (eg water and atmospheric 
emissions)

Self-funding for new coal projects

5-10 years

Diversifying the portfolio into other 
commodities

10-15 years

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NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANT IMPROVES SAFETY, 
BENEFITS THE ENVIRONMENT AND LOCAL WATER 
USERS 
A new R250 million water treatment plant 
at Matla reduces the safety risk of water-
filled mined-out cavities while benefiting the 
environment and local water users. The plant 
treats 10 mega litres (10 million litres) per day, 
and is part of our holistic strategy to manage 
our water stewardship by reducing, reusing and 
recycling water. 

Water flows into Matla’s underground mining 
operations from the surface, leading to flooding 
risks that affect the safety of workers. This could 
also affect the environment if contaminated water 
is released to the surface without prior treatment. 

After discussions with the national departments 
responsible for water, environmental affairs 
and mineral resources, Exxaro mapped out 
a sustainable solution. Underground water is 
pumped to the surface where innovative filtration 
processes remove contaminants and purify the 
water. Of the 10 mega litres treated each day, two 
thirds is discharged into the Olifants River and the 
balance is used at Matla operations or for drinking 
water at the mine.

The Matla water treatment plant is a prime 
example of our approach to water stewardship 
and one of three in our Mpumalanga region 
forming part of our long-term water management 
strategy. 

Benefits of the water treatment plant
By actively managing and limiting the volume of 
water underground, Matla has: 
•  Improved the safety levels of employees and the 

underground working environment

• Reduced its daily intake of fresh water, thus 

reducing its water footprint

• Provided high-quality water for farmers and 

other users by discharging clean water into the 
Olifants River.

In addition, 200 temporary jobs were created 
during construction and 14 permanent jobs to 
operate the water treatment plant.

A pending cost element to these emissions is the 
introduction of a carbon tax which will impact most 
companies, including Exxaro.

Exxaro has not met its carbon reduction target for 2015 
specifically, but has performed well over the last four 
years. These targets will be reviewed in 2016. 

As discussed in the board review, there has recently been 
much shareholder activism against coal as a source of 
energy. Exxaro has responded to shareholder enquiries 
on our strategy to reduce emissions, transition to 
renewable energy and adapt to the so-called 2ºC climate 
environment (limiting the increase in global temperature 
to below pre-industrial levels). 

Given the current and expected outlook for South Africa’s 
electricity requirements, we believe coal remains a 
relevant source of affordable electricity generation for 
the economy and Exxaro is well positioned to supply this 
energy source to Eskom. We do, however, regard this as a 
medium to longer-term risk and it therefore forms part of 
our diversification imperative.

South Africa is a water-scarce country and Exxaro 
recognises that water-reduction initiatives are crucial to 
sustainable operations. Our prime focus is optimising the 
use of recycled water and developing innovative passive 
water treatment systems for operations.

Expansions at our operations had a direct impact on the 
amount of water abstracted and hence our water intensity 
reduction targets for 2015 have not been met.

We are implementing water treatment plants to reuse and 
recycle as much water as possible.

BEE amended codes of good practice
The amended codes of good practice have been 
promulgated after being revised to five elements 
with more stringent targets. Exxaro has analysed its 
anticipated performance against the new codes and is 
putting measures in place to improve on elements where 
we are not performing well at present. Under current 
economic conditions, we expect that the target of the 
ownership element under net value will not be met. We 
are also focusing on enterprise and supplier development 
(ESD) which has new compliance requirements. 

We have also fallen short of the skills development target 
as the amended codes have removed all mandatory skills 
training. We will work towards reaching the targets as 
soon as possible.

A challenge in the amended codes is the target set for 
people with disabilities at 2% of the workforce. We are 
currently 40% below this target and actively driving 
disability awareness campaigns to identify employees 
with verifiable disabilities who have not declared these. 
In advertising careers, we emphasise the fact that a 
disability is not a barrier. (The limited to no external 
recruitment, in response to the business resilience 
material issue, has further negatively impacted our 
progress against this target).

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As noted in the board review, minority shareholders 
responded negatively to the financial assistance provided 
to Main Street 333 to maintain our BEE status.

We have also responded to general enquiries from 
shareholders on our approach to climate-change risks and 
heightened activism against coal as an energy source. A key 
concern for shareholders was the potential risk of stranded 
coal assets, given the scale of coal resources held by 
Exxaro.  Although we are exploring business opportunities 
beyond coal, in the medium term, the South African energy 
mix remains dominated by coal and coal is thus a key 
element of our strategy. As also discussed earlier, given 
the outlook for the country's electricity requirements, 
we believe coal remains a relevant source of affordable 
electricity generation for the economy and Exxaro is well 
positioned to supply this energy source to Eskom.

Community development projects are implemented 
by each operation in terms of its SLP, under the broad 
mandate of the Exxaro Chairman’s Fund and Exxaro 
Foundation. Total expenditure is detailed in the social 
and ethics committee report.  We also responded to 
our communities’ needs by refining our social return on 
investment (SROI) methodology to improve the quality 
and sustainability of projects to better meet community 
expectations (see Exxaro Chairman’s Fund and Exxaro 
Foundation annual report for 2015 on the Exxaro website).

Senior management, led by the CEO, engaged with 
provincial and local government leaders about 
regulatory and local development issues. Key to these 
discussions was the role of Exxaro as a mining company 
in contributing to socio-economic and environmental 
development in each region.  

Investment per focus area 2015 –  
total R56,3 million 

1
0

4

4

33

25

Corporate

Inyanda

Tshikondeni

Leeuwpan

NBC

NCC

11

10

12

Grootegeluk

Arnot

Matla

Socio-economic spend per operation (%)

Exxaro's integrated risk, compliance and assurance framework has enabled us to meaningfully improve our performance in 
this area over the past three years. Our safety risk management process has been fully integrated into our enterprise risk 
management framework and both operate from an integrated systems platform.

The table below expands on the risks, critical controls and the year-on-year trend, based on the residual risk score.

Risk 
number

Strategic 
objective

Risk and 
source

Long/
medium/
short-
term 
risk

Critical controls

Residual risk score 
2014

Trend

Residual risk score 
2015

Impact  probability

Impact  probability

2

7

Demonstrate 
responsibility  
and 
accountability

Safety 
concerns

Short/
medium

Internal

Medium

Demonstrate 
responsibility 
and 
accountability

Maintain 
a social 
licence to 
operate

External

•   Analyse historical incident data to identify trends 



and root causes

•   Conduct compliance awareness training
•   Continuously review industry safety benchmark
•   Continuous reporting of incidents
•   Incident management
•   Establish compliance-based committees to 
manage, educate and communicate safety 
programmes

•   Integrate reporting system (plant maintenance, 

safety, HR) 

•   Implement safety, health, environment and 

community risk management tool

•   Invest in education, training, communication and 

behaviour-based safety programmes 

•   Review operational processes to capitalise on 

advances in technology 

•   Adhere to commitments in SLPs as a minimum
•   Conduct SLP audits
•   Proactive involvement in sustainable socio-

economic development initiatives 

•   Pursue identified initiatives to progressively 

improve Exxaro’s BBBEE rating

•   Regular engagement with government
•   Reporting on mining charter requirements 

(external and internal)

•   Reporting on SLP requirements (external and 

internal)

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Capital projects

Material issue

Capital projects

Key performance indicator
Capital project delivery measure (time and 
cost variance)
Country risk as per assessment criteria (key 
drivers are physical security and security of tenure)

Sustainability 
capital
Manufactured

Manufactured

Legend 
(indicator)

Current performance
On target

Achieved:
•  Security of tenure
•  Physical security
•  Board-approved countries 

In terms of capital management, we remained prudent by 
striking a balance between returning cash to shareholders, 
managing debt, and selectively reinvesting in Exxaro for 
growth. Through cutbacks and deferrals, we have reduced 
our expansion capital expenditure (capex) by 15% over the 
next five years while critically evaluating sustaining capex 
to preserve cash flow in this period (refer graphs in the 
board review). 

• At R2 390 million, capital expenditure decreased 
by 25% in 2015 compared to 2014. R727 million 
(2014: R1 737 million) was invested in new capacity 
(expansion capital) 

• R1 663 million (2014: R1 460 million) was applied to 

subsequent rate of production ramp-up will depend on 
the IPP procurement programme for its coal baseload 
and Waterberg infrastructure development schedules.

•  Thabametsi IPP: A bid was submitted by the 

Thabametsi IPP in the first bid window under the 
Department of Energy’s coal baseload IPP procurement 
programme on 2 November 2015 for a 630MW coal-
fired power station. Marubeni Corporation is the lead 
developer and Korea Electric Power Corporation the 
co-developer on this project. Preferred bidders are 
expected to be announced in the first quarter of 2016. 
Based on this, we expect early construction works to 
begin in the second quarter of 2016.

sustaining and stay-in-business capital

•  Belfast: Following authorisation of the integrated 

• Of the funds spent on stay-in-business capital, 

R833 million was for Grootegeluk’s replacement of 
trucks, shovels and stacker reclaimers.

The Waterberg capex programme extending to 2020 has 
also been revised to R15 billion (sustaining and expansion).

With every growth and sustaining project now reviewed, 
our disciplined decision-making approach to allocating 
capital considers the expected investment rate of return; 
net present value; cost curve position; payback period; 
risk and mitigation balance; as well as overall impact on 
shareholder returns. 

The most notable coal project delays include:
•  Moranbah South
•  Mafube (Nooitgedacht)
•  Grootegeluk 6
•  Grootegeluk load-out station.

The impact of these delays on production growth and 
operating profit is expected to be mainly on projects 
already approved for implementation (primarily Belfast, 
which has been delayed by appeals).

Project higlights:
•  Grootegeluk: To date, the ramp-up of coal supply to 
Medupi power station has progressed as scheduled 
(addendum 9) and coal stockpiles are being built.

•  Thabametsi: The timing of certain future phases 

depends largely on progress with infrastructure (rail, 
water and roads) developments in the Waterberg. In the 
fourth quarter, we completed the bankable feasibility 
study of phase 1 to supply 3,9Mtpa of coal to the 
Thabametsi independent power producer (IPP), and the 
IWUL was approved in January 2016. An appeal was 
lodged and Exxaro is following due legal process.

  The mining right approval is imminent and first run-of- 
mine coal production to the Grootegeluk beneficiation 
complex could therefore be achieved by 2018. The 

water use licence in 2014, an appeal was lodged and 
the licence suspended. We expect the appeal case to 
be heard by the water tribunal in the second quarter 
of 2016. We also expect the tribunal hearing on the 
objection against the project’s rezoning application 
received in 2015 to be heard in the second quarter of 
2016. Only 7% of the approved project start-up capital 
budget has been released to date, primarily for detail 
engineering designs and activities beginning in 2016, 
until we have more certainty on the regulatory process 
for this project.

•  Mafube Nooitgedacht: This project has been delayed 

by 12 months with first coal now forecast in first-quarter 
2018, mainly due to environmental permits required to 
mine the Springboklaagte pans.

•  Mayoko: Our iron ore project in the RoC has been 

placed on care-and-maintenance until we see signs of 
improving market conditions and developments in the 
logistics infrastructure. We continued to drive down 
operating labour costs (the labour force was reduced 
from 140 to 15 employees in 2015) and we halted all 
capital expenditure.

  Despite submitting all documents to the RoC 

parliamentary authorities in 2015, the mining convention 
has not yet been ratified.

  Given the delays in ratifying the mining convention, our 
efforts in 2016 will remain limited to maintaining the 
Mayoko mining right while finalising future options. We 
expect to spend R60 million in 2016 on this project to 
protect the mining right, maintain stakeholder relations 
and our reputation, while finalising the disposal of 
rolling stock and completing environmental impact 
assessments. Through these disposals we aim to be cash 
neutral in 2016.

  Most of the rolling stock on the Mayoko project, except 

for two locomotives, was sold in 2015. 

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Capital allocation has been a key concern for our shareholders as commodity markets weakened.  Opportunities for 
commodity diversification (such as our Mayoko project and increasing interest in Tronox) were constrained by the weaker 
investment outlook.  As discussed in the board review, in addressing our business resilience and in response to this 
stakeholder concern, our capital profile was materially amended by postponing, reducing and reprioritising projects after 
prudent review.

Capital project execution has remained on the top ten strategic risks of not only Exxaro, but most mining companies 
internationally. The importance of managing time and budget overruns is even more vital under current economic 
circumstances, with the resultant need for cash preservation. 

The table below expands on these risks, critical controls and year-on-year trend, based on the residual risk score.

Long/
medium/
short-
term 
risk

Medium

Risk 
number

Strategic 
objective

Risk and 
source

5

Improve 
Exxaro’s 
portfolio

Capital 
project 
execution

Internal

Critical controls

•   Asset portfolio review and management
•   Disciplined execution of the value engineering 

study review encourage a culture to report both 
successes and failures (lessons learnt)

•   Ensure project and supply chain performance is 

monitored and managed

•   Establish a contingency plan (plan b)
•   Establish a robust governance structure
•   Implement advanced assurance frameworks 

(independent review and oversight)

•   Implement an effective risk management 

process

•   Improve capex forecast accuracy
•   Monitoring and tracking the progress of capital 

projects.

•   Project role clarification and accountability
•   Secure contractor’s commitment to assigning a 

strong and experienced management team

•   Standardise design and construction 

methodologies

Residual risk score 
2014

Trend

Residual risk score 
2015

Impact  probability

Impact  probability

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Material issue

Operating efficiencies

Key performance indicator
People productivity (% improvement of total tonnages 
handled/FTE from base)
People productivity (% improvement of production 
tonnages/FTE from base)

Manufactured

Manufactured

Sustainability 
capital

Current 
performance

Legend 
(indicator)

Growth from coal commodities (% deviation from budget)  Manufactured

Core assets (priority 1 solutions) overall performance 
against SLA (%)
Asset availability of enterprise resource planning 
system (ERP) (%)
Data loss prevention (physical data loss, not intellectual 
property, ie enterprise backup success rate) (%)

Manufactured

Manufactured

Manufactured

18

16

(4)

99

99

99

The wide-ranging cost reductions of 2015 will continue in 
future, aimed at managing what is in our control, namely 
the coal business and our operating costs. Initiatives to 
date include:
•  In February 2015, the CEO asked Exxaro’s people to ‘find 
me R1 billion’ (to improve our 2015 results through cost 
saving and revenue-generating initiatives) although 
rapidly changing economic conditions soon meant 
more was required. Key achievements during the year 
included a R504 million improvement in profitability 
from the coal business, and R288 million in value 
realised from supply chain management teams.

  Despite the exceptional efforts of our people across 
the organisation, we were unable to achieve the full 
R1 billion target.

•  In July, the phased Exxaro improvement initiative was 

launched to deliver maximum value through operational 
improvements, consolidation, exploiting synergies, 
increased throughput and embracing a continuous 
improvement culture. Results from the diagnostic phase 
indicated areas for improvement, summarised below:
–  We analysed our corporate office and support 
function costs, including external spend, and 
compared these (including a benchmark study) to 
our peers (similar-sized resources/mining companies 
in South Africa). Our costs, overall, were higher than 
our peers.

–  Through a comprehensive activity analysis, we have 
identified areas where we can consolidate duplicated 
costs and streamline processes.

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•  We also assessed our flagship Grootegeluk (by far, our 
largest operation) to identify potential improvement 
opportunities. The assessment reviewed Grootegeluk’s 
operational excellence status across a number of 
dimensions: mining operations and planning processes, 
maintenance, sourcing and procurement, as well as 
people performance and culture. The study concluded 
that Grootegeluk’s operational excellence process is 
very mature and confirmed the improvement initiatives 
already identified by mine management for 2016.

•  In the next phase of the Exxaro improvement initiative, 
we will further investigate areas identified for possible 
improvement and finalise the review of our operating 
model.

•  As discussed elsewhere, optimisating ECC and rolling 

out cost-savings across its operations achieved savings 
of R80 million in the latter part of 2015.

Risk 
number

Strategic 
objective

Risk 
and 
source

Long/
medium/
short-
term 
risk

Critical controls

As with our improved safety performance, operational 
efficiency improvements would have been impossible 
without continually engaging with employees. While the 
most significant employee engagements are discussed 
under business resilience and employees, specific 
employees and departments were targeted to address this 
material issue (including the ECC workforce, even prior to 
transaction closure, resulting in the significant turnaround 
at ECC in a very short period of time and the savings noted 
above).

As Exxaro increases its export allocation, even greater 
emphasis will be required on managing risks from 
infrastructure access and capacity, which explains the 
increase of this risk's residual score in 2015.

The risk of being unable to to meet production demands 
has decreased in 2015, following the decline in demand 
from customers.

Residual risk score 
2014

Trend

Residual risk score 
2015

Impact  probability

Impact  probability

8

10

Achieve 
operational 
and 
financial 
excellence

Infrastructure 
access and 
capacity

Medium/
long

External

•   Collaborate with government stakeholders to 

improve and initiate new infrastructure

•   Identify other stakeholders to co-develop a 

solution and to extend infrastructure

•   Regular liaison with TFR, RBCT and water 

Achieve 
operational 
and 
financial 
excellence

Unable to 
meet 
production 
demands

Internal

stakeholders

•   Understand the return on infrastructure and 

consider appropriate funding.

Medium

•   Accelerate business improvement (BI) projects 

under way  
–  Conduct more accurate geological studies 
•   Develop and implement a communication plan
•   Develop condition-based budget model feeding 

from life-of-mine plan 

•   Implement consequence management
•   Implement skills development programmes 
(professionals-in-training and bursaries) 

•   Improve maintenance and asset management
•   Maintain the stockpile threshold
•   Ongoing capital infrastructure planning aligned 

to strategy

•   Regular interaction with unions, Eskom, TFR, 

RBCT and government 

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Material issue

Key performance indicator

Sustainability 
capital

Current 
performance

Legend 
(indicator)

Employees

Organisational culture assessment 

Human capital

Level 4 

% of people who received HIV/AIDS awareness training 

Human capital

% of employees who received awareness training and 
voluntarily tested for HIV/AIDS 
% of  people tested positive and enrolled in HIV 
management programme and receiving ARV treatment
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate (%) compared to country 
prevalence rate 

Human capital

Human capital

Human capital

Talent bench (%) – senior management 

Human capital

Talent bench (%) – middle management

Human capital

Skills provision (% of internet appointment of critical skills) Human capital

Skills retention (% turnover)

Human capital

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Given the importance of skills in our industry, we invest an 
appropriate amount of total salaries and wages each year 
on developing our people. In 2015, we spent R184 million 
on industry-related training, or 6% of total payroll (2014: 
6,8% or R221 million) ranging from adult education and 
training to postgraduate studies. 

To achieve our strategic objectives, we need a healthy 
internal pipeline of specialist and leadership talent. In 
2015, the benefit of our integrated succession-planning 
process was evident in the internal appointment of three 
executives and our new CEO. In addition, our talent 
pipeline and feeder schemes enabled over 750 jobless 
youth to obtain occupational qualifications, in-service 
training and employment.

We have met our employment equity targets for top, 
middle and junior management, and we are close to 
the target for senior management. As mentioned in the 
licence to operate material issue, we are below target 
on employing people with dissabilities, which remains an 
industry-wide challenge.

In October, we opened a process of voluntary separation 
as an additional initiative to reduce longer-term costs 
while being mindful of the need to retain critical and 
scarce skills. We also lost people through the closures of 

Tshikondeni (279), Inyanda (15), AlloyStream (4) and our 
remaining offshore offices. In total, 464 people accepted 
voluntary or other packages at a once-off cost of R408 
million, but sustainable savings of R250 million per 
annum. For business units where retrenchments ocurred, 
we paid retrenchment packages to the value of two 
weeks for every completed year, in addition to providing 
employee assistance and other support services. 

The same retrenchment packages and support were 
extended to ECC employees early in 2016 after the ECC 
optimisation process. As discussed elsewhere in this 
report, the section 189 retrenchment process at Arnot will 
continue in 2016 and we will focus on the impact of mine 
closure on employees and the community.

These changes and one of our business resilience 
responses, which included the freezing of a large number 
of vacancies, affected our succession processes, but as 
noted elsewhere, this will receive focus in 2016 once the 
labour force has stabilised.

We are pleased that our coal business’ wage negotiations 
were settled without material unrest, reflecting the 
benefits of constructive engagement at industry and 
company level.

Labour unrest will remain a top risk in the mining industry for the forseeable future. This is largely due to South Africa's 
high unemployment, union rivalry and community frustration with insufficient government infrastructure and support, 
spilling over into the labour force.

This risk increased in 2015, which was a wage-negotiation year. As discussed earlier, this was not manifested as negatively 
as it could have, partly due to limited industrial action as well as preventative and corrective measures in place to 
proactively mitigate the impact (ie stockpile management to counteract the impact of strikes).

Risk 
number

Strategic 
objective

9

Demonstrate 
responsibility 
and 
accountability

Risk 
and 
source

Labour 
unrest

External 
and 
internal

Long/
medium/
short-
term 
risk

Critical controls

Residual risk score 
2014

Trend

Residual risk score 
2015

Impact  probability

Impact  probability

Medium

•   Ensure proper leadership and a high-performance 



culture

•   Ensure emergency stockpile is maintained 
(business continuity management plan)

•   Establish a strike emergency response plan and 

team

•   Intelligence system on ground level
•   Monitoring execution of SLP 
•   Participate in Chamber of Mines forum 
•   Regular communication to employees and 

communities

•   Regular labour and union liaison

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Location of Exxaro’s declared mineral resources and ore reserves 

LOCALITY MAP FOR EXXARO’S COAL RESOURCES AND RESERVES

Exxaro is committed to the principles of transparency, 
materiality and competence and continuously strives to 
enhance the level of estimating and reporting mineral 
resources and ore reserves.

The reported mineral resources and reserves presented 
here are a summarised introduction of governance, 
assurance and methodologies applied as well as an 
overview of significant mineral tenure items for the 
reporting period. This summary is supported by the 
Consolidated Exxaro Resources Limited, Mineral Resource 
and Reserve Report (CMRR) on our website. The content 
of the CMRR report is compiled from detailed independent 
reports received from appointed competent persons at 
the various operations and projects. Competent persons 
have sufficient relevant experience and consented to the 
inclusion of the information in the form and context in 
which it appears in the CMRR, which also includes their 
particulars. The CMRR report is aligned with Listings 
Requirements (section 12) and provides comprehensive 
information on reporting governance, competence, 
tenure, risk, assurance, auxiliary descriptions of applicable 
properties and the mineral resources and ore reserves 
estimates underpinning Exxaro’s current operations and 
growth projects.

FULL MINERAL RESOURCES AND RESERVES REPORT ON THIS WEBSITE

Exxaro reports mineral estimates that are directly 
under its management control and includes estimates 
for entities in which we hold a 25% interest or more. 
Mineral resources and ore reserves were estimated on 
an operational or project basis and in accordance with 
the South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration 
Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (SAMREC 
Code – 2007 edition; July 2009 amended version) for 
African properties, except for Vedanta’s property, and the 
Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, 
Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code – 2012) 
for Australian and Vedanta properties. 

The annual estimation and reporting process is managed 
through the Exxaro geosciences policy and associated 
mineral resource and reserve reporting procedure. The 
documents dictate technical requirements for estimation 
and reporting, and include guidelines on methodologies, 
templates and assurance. Both the policy and procedures 
are aligned with the guidelines of the SAMREC Code and, 
for South African coal reporting, SANS 10320:2004. The 
processes and calculations associated with the estimation 
process have been audited by internal competent persons 
and are audited by external consultants when deemed 
essential. For mines or projects in which Exxaro does not 
hold the controlling interest, figures have been compiled 
by competent persons from the applicable companies and 
have not been audited by Exxaro. 

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Resource estimations are based on the latest available 
resource models. For Exxaro operations and projects, we 
use a systematic review process that measures several 
resource-modifying factors to establish an eventual 
extraction outline (EEO). The outline reflects the boundary 
within which mineral occurrences are considered to have 
reasonable and realistic prospects for eventual economic 
extraction. Exxaro continuously examines various aspects 
of the mineral resource estimation process and, in the 
year ahead, we will continue to confer specifically on the 
concepts put forward by the yet-to-be-ratified SAMREC 
(2016) and SANS 10320:2004 rewrites. 

Ore reserves have the same meaning as mineral reserves 
as defined in the applicable reporting codes. Ore reserves 
are estimated using the relevant reserve modifying factors 
at the time of reporting. Changes in the market, increased 
awareness of protecting the natural environment and 
changing legislation requirements demand a change in the 
utilisation strategy and execution of mining operations. 
Exxaro continuously assesses the various life-of-mine 
strategic plans to consider the best way of addressing 
these challenges. 

Mineral resources and ore reserves quoted fall within 
existing Exxaro mine or prospecting rights. Rights are of 
sufficient duration (or convey a legal right to convert or 
renew for sufficient duration) to enable all reserves to be 
mined in accordance with current production schedules. 
The only exceptions are the Grootegeluk (executed March 
2011 for 30 years) and Matla (executed March 2015 for ten 
years) operations where adequate ore reserves exist for 
lives of mine (LoM) extending well beyond the period for 
which they were granted. 

The decline in both coal price and demand exerted 
pressure on economic viability assumptions for our 
operations and projects and subsequent definition of 
the reserve base. Two of the company’s operations, 
Tshikondeni and Inyanda, are in the process of mine 
closure and a third operation, Arnot, is re-evaluating its 
operating model after termination of the Eskom CSA. 
As discussed elsewhere in the report, in reaction to these 
challenges, the company has embarked on several cost-
saving initiatives to preserve cash and minimise cost. 
The emphasis on operational excellence and a strategic 
focus to realise key projects allowed us to re-evaluate the 
strategic fit of projects in the portfolio. 

As a result, section 11 applications were submitted 
and approvals are pending for the Arnot South and 
Kranspan (resources not declared) and Waterberg 
South project areas. 

Exxaro has a world-class coal resource portfolio consisting 
of fully-owned operations and projects and a number of 
jointly-owned operations and projects in South Africa 
and Australia (section 01). Coal operations and projects 
in South Africa are located in both the large and highly 
prospective Waterberg coalfield in Limpopo province 
and the more mature Highveld and Witbank coalfields in 
Mpumalanga province.

Estimated to contain 40-50% of South Africa’s remaining 
coal resources, the Waterberg can truly be viewed as 
the future of South African coal mining. Exxaro holds 
an estimated 5,2 billion tonnes of measured (3,5 billion 
tonnes) and indicated (1,7 billion tonnes) coal resources 
in the Waterberg primarily within the Grootegeluk mine 
and adjacent project of Thabametsi. Grootegeluk secures 
thermal coal reserves to Eskom’s Matimba and newly 
commissioned Medupi power stations, and produces 
semi-soft coking and metallurgical coal through eight 
beneficiation plants (annual production of 23,6Mt). The 
Grootegeluk complex is continuously evolving, illustrated 
by commissioning an in-pit mobile crusher system, 
ramp-up of the GG7 and GG8 beneficiation plants and 
commissioning a first-of-its-kind cyclic-operated coal 
slimes ponds facility. 

All studies at phase 1 of the Thabametsi project, an open-
pit mining operation that will produce power station coal 
as an on-site IPP, have been concluded, resulting in the 
first time reporting of phase 1 ore reserves. A new mining 
right application was submitted in April 2012 and Exxaro 
has reasonable expectation that the right will be granted 
in the first half of 2016. 

Approvals to renew prospecting rights for the Waterberg 
North and South and a section 11 application for Waterberg 
South are pending. A review of the 2014 study results 
of Zonderwater is under way, resulting in the first-time 
reporting of mineral resources for Zonderwater. 

A number of Exxaro fully owned open pit and underground 
coal operations and projects are in Mpumalanga. The 
Matla and Arnot operations are dedicated coal suppliers 
to Eskom. North Block Complex and Leeuwpan, in addition 
to producing power station coal, also produce a range 
of specialised coal products for the export market and a 
number of local consumers. 

Mining at one of the three shafts at Matla, mine 1, was 
halted due to pillar instability and safety concerns as 
detailed in the SRC committee report. The potential 
impact on overall production and coal quality was 
mitigated by moving mining sections and increasing 
production. Two bankable feasibility studies on the north-
west access and shortwall replacement projects were 
concluded. The objective of these projects is to establish 
access into future reserves by establishing an incline and 
decline above and below current workings and introducing 
additional continuous mining (CM) sections for when 
the shortwall ground is depleted. The converted mining 
right of Matla was executed in March 2015, and submitted 
for registration. 

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EXXARO MINING AND PROSPECTING RIGHTS IN THE WATERBERG

Arnot mine, a +40-year operation 43km east of 
Middelburg in Mpumalanga, was contracted to supply 
coal to the nearby Eskom Arnot power station until 
31 December 2015. The expiry of the CSA with Eskom, 
which is based on specific cost configurations, creates 
uncertainty on the Arnot ore reserve. Exxaro reviewed 
the operation and has, based on reasonable internal 
cost assumptions, identified specific resource areas that 
will realise current economic viability and which were 
converted to ore reserves. The reported reserve estimates 
are classified in the probable reserve category because 
of current market uncertainty (Eskom CSA). Exxaro is 
currently reviewing various scenarios which include 
different cost assumptions and market options, and it 
is therefore pertinent to caution on possible material 
reserve changes that might emerge from this review in 
2016. The Arnot converted mining right is executed. The 
right was submitted for registration, but was referred back 
due to incorrect historical property-naming conventions. 
The corrections were made and the right was resubmitted 
for registration.

At Leeuwpan mine, the OI feasibility study (a critical 
element of the mine’s LoM optimisation project) is reaching 
finalisation. Reviews of specific processing parameters 
and reduced capital requirements are under way. The 
project area contributes to ~50% of the operation’s ore 
reserves and forms a material part of its LoM. An executive 
management ruling on the project is expected in the first 
half of 2016. The converted mining right and adjacent new 
mining right at Leeuwpan mine are both executed and the 
approval of a ministerial consent (section 102) submitted 

to amalgamate the two rights is pending. Exxaro owns the 
OI reserve surface rights for areas north of the R50 road 
and negotiations for surface rights south of the R50 road 
(remainder of the OI reserve area) have been concluded 
and contractually agreed, subject to specific conditions. 

NBC,near the town of Belfast in Mpumalanga, holds 
three mining rights on which two operating mines (Glisa: 
converted, executed mining right; and Eerstelingsfontein: 
converted, executed mining right, renewal pending), 
and one operation in the process of mine closure 
(Strathrae; converted mining right, execution pending) 
are located. Early 2015 saw the start of mining activities 
at Eerstelingsfontein, which was a highlight given 
deteriorating coal qualities at Glisa. In addition, two 
projects – one immediately south to the Glisa operation 
(Glisa South) and one further south (Belfast) – also form 
part of NBC and for which resources were declared. 
A renewal for the Glisa South prospecting right and 
subsequent application for a new mining right were 
submitted in November 2013. An appeal is currently being 
addressed through the regional mining development and 
environment committee. The mining right for the Belfast 
project was registered in March 2015. Exxaro applied for 
an extension of the start of mining activities pending the 
resolution of an appeal on the IWUL, which extension 
was granted. 

The Inyanda mining right was executed in November 
2006. An administrative error highlighted during closure 
resulted in the need to submit an application for re-
execution of the Inyanda right. Re-execution is expected to 
be concluded in the first quarter of 2016. 

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LOCALITY MAP FOR ECC MINING AND PROSPECTING RIGHTS

As discused elsewhere in the report, Exxaro acquired 
TCSA (ECC) after a successful bidding process.

Exxaro holds a 74% interest in a number of mining rights 
under ECC for the operations of Forzando (FZO) and 
Dorstfontein (DCM) and adjacent prospecting rights, as 
well as a 49% interest in the mining right of Tumelo. ECC 
also holds a 51% interest of the Eloff prospecting right, 
near Delmas and close to our Leeuwpan operation. 

A number of concerns on important resource and reserve 
estimation methodologies were identified during the due 
diligence of the TCSA mineral assets. This necessitated a 
complete review and subsequent update of the geological 
models of Dorstfontein, Forzando and Eloff, and the 2015 
coal resource estimates are based on these updated 
models. The impact on operations because of the lower 
Exxaro long-term price forecast, as well as the potential 
impact of updated geological models on current mine 
plans are, however, ongoing and reserve estimates 
reported this year are based on the TCSA mine plans of 
2013/14. The individual ore reserve estimates reported 
reflect the current five-year business plan of Dorstfontein 
West and East and Forzando South and it is therefore 
appropriate to caution on possible material reserve 
changes that might emerge from LoM studies in 2016. 

The Dorstfontein complex comprises an eastern, 
primarily open-cut, operation (DCM East) and a western 
underground operation, Dorstfontein West (DCM West). 

The operations are located on three mining rights granted 
for 30 years: 123MR, executed June 2012; 119MR, executed 
June 2012; and 51MR, executed June 2006. The Rietkuil 
Vhakoni prospecting right (1916PR), for which a section 
102 was timeously submitted for incorporation into the 
Dorstfontein complex mining right, is viewed as a potential 
extension of the Dorstfontein complex operation pending 
current LoM study reviews. 

The Forzando complex comprises two underground mines, 
Forzando North mine (FZON) and Forzando South mine 
(FZOS), located on two mining rights granted and executed 
in June 2013 for 16 years. FZON was placed under care-
and-maintenance in 2004 and FZOS started in 2006 
exploiting the S4L, operating with four CM sections. The 
renewal applications of the Kalabasfontein prospecting 
rights 1035PR and 1170PR were approved and executed in 
June 2015 and a section 102 for inclusion of the Forzando 
West (1066PR) prospecting right into the Forzando South 
mining right was timeously submitted. ECC has reasonable 
expectation that the approval will not be withheld. 

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Indicated

Measured

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Proved

Exxaro attributable coal resources and reserves

The application to renew the prospecting right of Legdaar 
(1846PR) was submitted in early 2015 and approval is 
pending. ECC holds a 49% interest in the Schurvekop 
1063PR prospecting right, majority owned by Mmakau 
Mining Proprietary Limited, to the north of the Forzando 
mining right. The owners aim to submit a mining right in 
the second half of 2016. 

The Tumelo operation consists of one mining right (116MR). 
The operation was put under care-and-maintenance in 
early 2014. Evaluation of the mineral resource is under 
way. The Eloff project is near Delmas and close to 
Exxaro’s Leeuwpan operation. The project consists of two 
prospecting rights, 273 and 274PR, on which three major 
coal seams are explored. Desktop studies, reviewing the 
potential of the coal resource and strategic fit in the ECC 
portfolio, are under way. 

The Mayoko iron ore project in the RoC is currently 
at concept phase level of study. The Mayoko mining 
exploitation convention was concluded between the 
RoC government and Exxaro Mayoko SA on 29 January 
2014. This convention is still subject to certain conditions 
precedent, such as concluding all agreements on access 
to rail and port infrastructure and its ratification, as 
discussed elsewhere in the report. All activities related 
to the subsequent prefeasibility phase have been put 
on hold and the project is on care-and-maintenance 
until conclusion of the mining convention. The far-
north Ngoubou-Ngoubou exploration permit lapsed 
on 2 December 2015 and was not renewed because of 
limited potential. 

The person in Exxaro designated to take corporate 
responsibility for mineral resources, Henk Lingenfelder, 
the undersigned, has reviewed and endorsed the reported 
estimates. Mr Lingenfelder is a member of the Geological 
Society of South Africa and registered (400038/11) 
with the South African Council for Natural Scientific 

Professions. He has a BSc (hons) in geology and 19 years 
of experience as an exploration and mining geologist in 
coal, iron ore and industrial minerals, of which six are 
specific to coal and iron ore estimation.

JH Lingenfelder
BSc geology (hons)
Pr Sci Nat (400038/11)

Group manager geoscience
Roger Dyason Road 
Pretoria West
0183

The person in Exxaro designated to take corporate 
responsibility for ore reserves, Chris Ballot, the 
undersigned, has reviewed and endorsed the reported 
estimates. Mr Ballot is a mining engineer registered 
(20060040) with the Engineering Council of South Africa. 
He has 19 years of experience as a mining engineer in 
iron ore, mineral sands and coal in various technical and 
management roles.

CC Ballot
MEng mining
ECSA 20060040

Group manager mining processes
Roger Dyason Road
Pretoria West
0183

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OUTLOOK

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015OUTLOOK

We expect 2016 to be another challenging year. The 
key risk to the South African economy for 2016 is the 
anticipated slowing growth (forecast 0,9% ), and thus 
weakening fiscal fundamentals that could pave the way 
for a further credit-rating downgrades. We expect the 
already-weak exchange rate to remain vulnerable in 2016 
on account of domestic political and global monetary 
policy events.

We anticipate that international thermal coal prices will 
remain at current levels for the short to medium term. 
There is, however, still good international demand for 
Exxaro’s coal. 

We expect demand from the local metals market to 
remain subdued in the short to medium term, given the 
oversupply in the market.

We expect iron ore markets to remain oversupplied, 
with suppliers focusing on cost reductions to lower the 
cost curve.

We also expect pricing weakness in the mineral sands 
and TiO2 pigment sectors to continue throughout 2016, 
with the slowdown in the Chinese construction industry 
weighing heavily on the titanium value chain.

The challenges facing the group relate mainly to:
•  Securing mining rights for the Thabametsi mine 
•  Securing water use licences and section 11 certificates 

(eg the Belfast project) 

•  Delays affecting the timely delivery of projects: we 

continue to liaise with the authorities to ensure licences 
are granted expeditiously

•  Security of CSA's with Eskom.

As a result of delays in ratifying the Mayoko iron ore 
project mining convention, we will focus on maintaining 
the mining right in 2016 while finalising our options.

Our cost base was streamlined but, given the prevailing 
operating environment, we will continue to identify areas 
where we can achieve both reductions and efficiency 
improvements. We expect to receive no dividends from 
SIOC and significantly lower dividends from Tronox. 
In the meantime, we will continue to review our major 
investments as markets evolve. Part of this includes 
considering our options after Anglo American plc 
announced that it intended to dispose of its South 
African coal business and its interest in KIO at an 
appropriate time.

Given its strong domestic base and the benefits of the 
exchange rate, our coal business continues to outperform 
the balance of our portfolio. Accordingly, we are 
positioning Exxaro as a pure-play coal business for the 
next three to five years. Our objectives include:
•  Maximising performance through operational 

improvements, consolidation, exploiting synergies, 
increasing throughput and fostering an innovation 
culture. We will continue to ramp up Grootegeluk 7 and 8 
in line with our Medupi CSA, aiming to reach steady-state 
in 2019. Our aim is to entrench operational efficiency 
in the lowest half of the cost curve and restructure 
operations where necessary to ‘fit-for-purpose’
•  Aligning our capital allocation to the coal growth 

strategy, with significant capital expenditure in the 
Waterberg, home to Grootegeluk and Thabametsi 

•  Continuing mine closures (Inyanda – at end-of-life, and 
Arnot forced by termination of the Eskom CSA) and 
dispose of mines approaching end of life

•  Growth will come from optimising ECC, developing 
Thabametsi to supply the proposed coal IPP, and 
starting the Belfast project, which has been delayed by 
the water use-licence appeal and rezoning objections.

In summary, our focus in the short to medium term will 
be to:
•  Prioritise and stagger projects (mainly expansion 

capex) to preserve cash and ensure debt remains within 
acceptable levels. An internal target of net debt at less 
than two times EBITDA has been set

•  Continue to reduce input and overhead costs by 

R300 million in 2016

•  Ensure we maintain high levels of cash generated from 

controlled operations

•  Maintain our dividend payout philosophy of between 

2,5 to 3,5 times core earnings cover

•  Develop Exxaro’s future BEE shareholding strategy 
amid regulatory uncertainty and ensure the current 
BEE structure unwinds efficiently with minimal impact 
on stakeholders

•  Evaluate our continued shareholding in key investments 
(mainly SIOC and Tronox) and assess the ability of these 
investments to contribute to our future earnings and 
cash flow

•  Consider the ECC empowerment structure within 

the future structure of Exxaro’s BEE shareholding as 
an option

•  Increase the investment appeal of our coal business by 

communicating our strategy more effectively.

We believe Exxaro’s solid operating performance and 
exciting growth potential present a compelling longer-term 
investment proposition, despite current markets:

Operating performance
•  Largest domestic coal supplier
•  Long-term commercial and tied contracts
•  Secured export entitlement
•  Stable exports

Growth potential
•  Medupi ramp-up
•  Thabametsi coal for IPP
•  Further optimisation of ECC
•  Focused capital allocation

Positive stakeholder engagement
•  Stable workforce
•  Constructive relationships with government, 

communities and Eskom

Stable business
•  Project pipeline streamlined
•  Targeted production and cost reduction
•  Sustainable BEE position
•  Maintaining dividend policy.

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ANNEXURES

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015DIRECTORS’ AND PRESCRIBED OFFICERS’ REMUNERATION

SUMMARY OF REMUNERATION RECEIVED/RECEIVABLE – 2015

NCOE/guaranteed remuneration 
plus circumstantial

Short-term 
incentives 

Long-term 
incentives 

Other

Basic 
salary
R

Benefits 
and 
allowances1
R

Retirement 
fund 
contributions
R

Gains on 
management 
share 
schemes
R

Performance 
bonuses2
R

Exit 

payment Recognition3
R

R

Other4
R

Total 
remuneration 
paid
R

Share-
based 
payment 
expense
R

Gains on 
management 
share 
schemes
R

Total 
remuneration 
expense
R

7 657 353 
4 903 361 
4 727 814 

 98 226 
 191 468 
 233 063 

 757 320 
 426 409 
 472 036 

 4 652 386 
 2 728 533 
 2 697 499 

 2 592 636 
 1 072 537 
 1 598 667 

 5 190 
 5 190 
 5 190 

 15 763 111 
 9 327 498 
 9 734 269 

 4 517 714 
 2 326 852 
 2 910 051 

 (2 592 636)
 (1 072 537)
 (1 598 667)

 17 688 189 
 10 581 813 
 11 045 653 

 17 288 528 

 522 757 

 1 655 765 

 10 078 418 

 5 263 840 

 15 570 

 34 824 878 

 9 754 617 

 (5 263 840)

 39 315 655

 2 261 164 
 2 180 164 
 2 973 693 
 3 344 971 
 1 583 085 
 1 098 893 
 2 963 323 
 1 848 058 

 89 097 
 170 097 
 76 353 
 131 802 
 376 673 
 42 829 
 38 013 
 71 638 

 223 631 
 223 631 
 258 582 
 330 821 
 148 616 
 95 556 
 293 076 
 149 842 

 1 395 863 
 1 378 557 
 1 328 415 
 1 890 474 
 1 197 487 

 2 280 343 
 779 202 

 437 559 
 319 143 

 1 393 339  11 687 117  

 6 556 

 856 782   16 929 984 
 400 306 
 159 062 

 1 646 
 14 512 
 5 190 
 45 480 
 1 694 
 96 010 
 5 190 
 5 190 

 667 368 

 3 167 432 

 24 468 

 4 408 960 
 4 286 104 
 5 309 601 
18 824 004
 3 314 111 
 22 287 486 
 5 980 251 
 3 037 460 

 731 188 
 639 648 
 572 621 
 1 358 175 
 464 372 
 640 746 
 804 330 
 416 651 

 (437 559)
 (319 143)

 (1 393 339)
 (6 556)
 (856 782)
 (400 306)
 (159 062)

 4 702 589 
 4 606 609 
 5 882 222 
18 788 840
 3 771 927 
 22 071 450 
 6 384 275 
 3 295 049 

 18 253 351 

 996 502 

 1 723 755 

 10 250 341 

 3 572 747  28 617 101

 174 912 

 3 859 268 

67 447 977

 5 627 731 

 (3 572 747)

69 502 961

2015

Executive 
directors
SA Nkosi
MDM Mgojo5
WA de Klerk

Total executive 
directors’ 
remuneration

Prescribed 
officers
AW Diedericks6
JG Meyer6
MI Mthenjane
M Piater7
Dr N Tsengwa8
PE Venter9
M Veti
CH Wessels

Total prescribed 
officers’ 
remuneration

2015

Non-executive directors
S Dakile-Hlongwane
Dr CJ Fauconnier
MW Hlahla5
Dr D Konar (chairman)
S Mayet10
NB Mbazima11
VZ Mntambo
RP Mohring
V Nkonyeni
Dr MF Randera
J van Rooyen
D Zihlangu

Fees for 
services
R

Benefits and 
allowances
R

Total
remuneration
expense
R

474 042
917 947
 124 339 
 1 555 441 
 96 758 
 341 881 
 476 170 
 899 532 
 513 602 
 474 740 
 643 779 
 455 850 

 2 726 
 9 482 

 10 741 

 6 295 

 3 615 

 476 768 
 927 429 
 124 339 
 1 555 441 
 96 758 
 341 881 
 476 170 
 910 273 
 513 602 
 481 035 
 643 779 
 459 465 

Total non-executive directors 
remuneration

 6 974 081 

 32 859 

 7 006 940 

1	
2	
3	
4	
5	
6	
7	
8	
9	
10	
11	

Includes	leave	days	purchased	as	well	as	travel	and	acting	allowances.
All	incentive	schemes	are	performance	related	and	were	approved	by	the	board.	The	two-tier	short-term	incentive	scheme	applies	to	all	employees	throughout	the	group.
Comprises	long-service	awards,	zero-fatality	and	LTIFR	rewards.
Includes	restraint-of-trade	lump	sums	and	ex-gratia	payment.
Appointed	on	4	June	2015.
Appointed	on	1	April	2015.
Termination	on	31	December	2015,	severance	package.
Appointed	to	act	as	executive	head,	coal	operations,	on	1	May	2015.
Termination	on	31	March	2015,	severance	package.
Appointed	on	18	August	2015.	Fees	paid	to	employer.
Resigned	on	18	August	2015.	

Retirement amounts paid or received by executive directors are paid or received under defined contribution retirement funds.

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DIRECTORS’ AND PRESCRIBED OFFICERS’ REMUNERATION (continued)

SUMMARY OF REMUNERATION RECEIVED/RECEIVABLE – 2014

NCOE/guaranteed remuneration 
plus circumstantial

Short-term 
incentives 

Long-term 
incentives 

Other

Basic 
salary
R

Benefits 
and 
allowances2
R

Retirement 
fund 
contributions
R

Performance 
bonuses3
R

Gains on 
management 
share 
schemes
R

Exit 

payment Recognition4
R

R

Other5
R

Total 
remuneration 
paid
R

Share-
based 
payment 
expense6
R

Gains on 
management 
share 
schemes
R

Total 
remuneration 
expense
R

 7 323 305 
 4 574 666 

 93 941 
 180 255 

 724 283 
 452 439 

 3 188 762 
 1 938 841 

 5 509 697 
 2 792 914 

 7 307 
 7 307 

 124 073 

 16 971 368 
 9 946 422 

 (1 407 592)
 (1 751 637)

 (5 509 697)
 (2 792 914)

 10 054 079 
 5 401 871 

 11 897 971 

 274 196 

 1 176 722 

 5 127 603 

 8 302 611 

 14 614 

 124 073 

 26 917 790 

 (3 159 229)

 (8 302 611)

 15 455 950 

 4 106 203 
 3 344 464 
 3 213 283 
 4 307 298 
 2 837 160 
 1 775 303 

 161 484 
 110 930 
 126 613 
 199 045 
 36 394 
 68 818 

 357 182 
 248 683 
 317 797 
 377 156 
 280 598 
 143 943 

 2 023 946 
 840 052 
 1 243 101 
 1 726 326 
 72 017 
 493 741 

 2 135 162 

 1 347 297 
 1 881 695 
 988 532 
 415 262 

 7 307 
 5 762 
 7 307 
 7 307 
 7 307 
 7 307 

 160 404 
 644 799 
 51 049 
 51 395 

 8 951 688 
 5 194 690 
 6 306 447 
 8 550 222 
 4 222 008 
 2 904 374 

 (611 575)
 (455 177)
 (726 992)
 (1 430 693)
 (535 725)
 (217 667)

 (2 135 162)

 (1 347 297)
 (1 881 695)
 (988 532)
 (415 262)

 6 204 951 
 4 739 513 
 4 232 158 
 5 237 834 
 2 697 751 
 2 271 445 

 19 583 711 

 703 284 

 1 725 359 

 6 399 183 

 6 767 948 

 42 297 

 907 647 

 36 129 429 

 (3 977 829)

 (6 767 948)

 25 383 652 

20141

Executive 
directors
SA Nkosi
WA de Klerk

Total executive 
directors’ 
remuneration

Prescribed 
officers
MDM Mgojo
MI Mthenjane
M Piater
PE Venter
M Veti
CH Wessels

Total prescribed 
officers’ 
remuneration

2014

Non-executive directors
S Dakile-Hlongwane
Dr CJ Fauconnier
JJ Geldenhuys7
Dr D Konar (chairman)
NB Mbazima
VZ Mntambo
RP Mohring
V Nkonyeni8
Dr MF Randera
NL Sowazi9, 10
J van Rooyen
D Zihlangu

Fees for 
services
R

Benefits 
and 
allowances
R

Total
remuneration
expense
R

413 707
684 700
 317 115 
 1 395 873 
 398 036 
 423 114 
 823 781 
 225 083 
 427 540 
 123 368 
 599 734 
 410 575 

 28 692 
 9 389 

 20 832 

 2 106 

 413 707 
 713 392 
 326 504 
 1 395 873 
 398 036 
 423 114 
 844 613 
 225 083 
 429 646 
 123 368 
 599 734 
 410 575 

Total non-executive directors’ 
remuneration paid by Exxaro

 6 242 626 

 61 019 

 6 303 645 

The	2014	executive	directors’	and	prescribed	officers’	remuneration	disclosures	have	been	represented	to	be	aligned	with	the	remuneration	philosophy	as	presented	in	the	integrated	report	2015.	
Includes	leave	days	purchased	as	well	as	travel	and	acting	allowances.
All	incentive	schemes	are	performance	related	and	were	approved	by	the	board.	The	two-tier	short-term	incentive	scheme	applies	to	all	employees	throughout	the	group.
Comprises	long-service	awards,	zero-fatality	and	LTIFR	rewards.
Includes	restraint-of-trade	lump	sums	and	ex-gratia	payment.
Reversal	of	share-based	payment	expense	as	a	result	of	the	non-market	conditions	not	being	achieved.
Retired	on	27	May	2014.
Appointed	on	3	June	2014.
Fees	paid	to	the	respective	employer	and	not	the	individual.

1	
2		
3		
4	
5	
6		
7		
8		
9		
10		 Resigned	on	3	June	2014.	

Retirement amounts paid or received by executive directors are paid or received under defined contribution retirement 
funds.

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INTEREST IN EXXARO SHARES

Number of shares

Directors at 31 December

Beneficial interest
S Dakile-Hlongwane
WA de Klerk
Dr CJ Fauconnier
Dr D Konar (chairman)
MDM Mgojo
VZ Mntambo
RP Mohring
SA Nkosi
NL Sowazi
J van Rooyen
D Zihlangu

Non-beneficial interest
WA de Klerk
Dr CJ Fauconnier

Percentages (direct and indirect)
S Dakile-Hlongwane
MDM Mgojo
VZ Mntambo
SA Nkosi
NL Sowazi
D Zihlangu

2015

2014

 Direct 

 Indirect 

 Direct 

 Indirect 

 47 500 
 6 168 
 16 047 

 1 000 
 80 142 

 488 763 
 23 844 

 6 662 997 
 5 529 881 

 9 656 935 

 1 500 
 2 818 552 

 468 
 1 000 

 1 462 
 47 500 
 6 168 

 1 000 
 61 113 

2015

 0,14 
 1,87 
 1,54 
 2,72 

 0,79 

 488 763 
 19 011 

 5 529 881 

 9 644 427 
 1 124 906 
 1 500 
 2 818 552 

 66 363 
 1 000 

2014

0,14

1,54
2,71
0,31
0,79

There have been no changes in the directors’ interests in Exxaro shares between the end of the financial year 2015 and the 
date on which the annual financial statements were approved.

SHARE OPTIONS AND RESTRICTED SHARE AWARDS
The following options and rights in shares in the company were exercised or are outstanding in favour of directors and 
prescribed officers of the company under the company’s share option schemes:

Management SARs

2015

Executive directors
SA Nkosi

MDM Mgojo

Prescribed officers
AW Diedericks

JG Meyer

M Piater

Dr N Tsengwa

PE Venter

Rights held at 
31 December1

Number

Grant 
date price
R

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December
R

Rights 
exercised 
during the year

Shares 
forfeited2
Number Number

Exercise 
price 
R

Sale price/
market 
price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

 67 430 
 45 474 

 112 904 

 27 530 
 16 358 

 43 888 

 6 988 

 6 988 

 7 910 
 4 666 

 12 576 

 9 380 

 9 380 

 8 312 

 8 312 

 17 376 

 17 376 

112,35
67,07
126,77

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

112,35
67,07
126,77

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

126,77

01/04/2017

112,35
67,07
126,77

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

112,35
67,07
126,77

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

112,35
126,77

01/04/2015
01/04/2017

126,77

01/04/2017

 2 969 617 
 2 002 675 

 4 972 292 

 1 212 421 
 720 406 

 1 932 827 

 307 752 

 307 752 

 348 356 
 205 491 

 553 847 

 413 095 

 413 095 

 366 060 

 366 060 

 765 239 

 765 239 

 41 780 

 41 780 

 15 720 

 15 720 

 4 560 

 4 560 

 9 420 

 16 330 

67,07

102,59  580 042  31/03/2015

 16 330 

 9 420 

 580 042 

 9 170 

 9 170 

1	
2	

Refers	to	rights	held	by	employees	including	vested	but	not	yet	exercised	as	well	as	unvested	rights.
Shares	forfeited	due	to	performance	conditions	not	being	fully	met.

With the prevailing share price of R44,04 at 31 December 2015, there would be no pre-tax gain if exercised.

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We assume directors will not exercise rights that are out of the money.

Management SARs

2014

Executive directors
SA Nkosi

WA de Klerk

Prescribed officers
MDM Mgojo

M Piater

PE Venter

M Veti

CH Wessels

Rights held at 
31 December1
Number

Grant 
date price
R

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December2
R

Shares 
forfeited3
Number

41 780
67 430
45 474

 154 684 

15 720
27 530
16 358

 59 608 

9 420
16 330
9 380

 35 130 

17 376

 17 376 

112,35
67,07
126,77
163,95

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

 4 324 230 
 6 979 005 
 4 706 559 

 2 456 475 

 16 009 794 

 2 456 475 

163,95

01/04/2018

112,35
67,07
126,77
163,95

112,35
67,07
126,77
163,95

126,77
163,95

163,95

163,95

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2018

01/04/2018

 1 627 020 
 2 849 355 
 1 693 053 

 1 002 918 

 6 169 428 

 1 002 918 

 974 970 
 1 690 155 
 970 830 

 594 902 

 3 635 955 

 594 902 

 1 798 416 

 1 798 416 

36 538

36 538

18 268

 14 084 

14 084

8 542

8 542

14 104

14 104

6 168

2 936

1		 Refers	to	rights	held	by	employees	including	vested	not	yet	exercised	as	well	as	unvested	rights.
2	
3	

Based	on	a	share	price	of	R103,50	which	prevailed	on	31	December	2014.
Shares	forfeited	due	to	performance	conditions	not	being	fully	met.

There were no management share appreciation right scheme rights exercised nor shares forfeited in 2014. 

We assume directors will not exercise rights that are out of the money. 

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Management share scheme – LTIP

2015

Executive directors
SA Nkosi

MDM Mgojo

WA de Klerk

Prescribed officers
AW Diedericks

JG Meyer

MI Mthenjane

M Piater

Dr N Tsengwa

PE Venter

M Veti

CH Wessels

Rights held at 
31 December 
Number

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December 
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December1
R

Options 
exercised 
during the year
Number

Shares 
forfeited2
Number

Sale price/
market price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

 94 011 
 135 608 
 196 751 

 426 370 

 38 843 
 47 848 
 68 820 
 63 889 

 219 400 

 58 439 
 82 010 
 121 218 

 261 667 

 16 036 
 20 081 
 34 387 

 70 504 

 15 213 
 18 988 
 34 387 

 68 588 

 21 589 
 23 246 
 33 435 

 78 270 

 30 632 
 37 876 
 54 478 
 81 558 
 81 558 

 286 102 

 16 263 
 20 109 
 28 922 

 65 294 

 41 015 
 50 523 

 91 538 

 18 458 
 23 146 
 33 291 

 74 895 

 8 849 
 10 942 
 15 737 

 35 528 

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018
01/05/2018

01/04/2015
01/11/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2015
02/08/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

 4 140 244 
 5 972 176 
 8 664 914 

 4 140 244 
 5 972 176 
 8 664 914 

 20 234 

 48 331 

100,8

 2 039 587  01/04/2015

 18 777 334 

 18 777 334 

 20 234 

 48 331 

 2 039 587 

 8 208 

 19 604 

100,8

 827 366  01/04/2015

 1 710 646 
 2 107 226 
 3 030 833 
 2 813 672 

 1 710 646 
 2 107 226 
 3 030 833 
 2 813 672 

 9 662 377 

 9 662 377 

 8 208 

 19 604 

 827 366 

 10 237 
 4 318 

 24 452 
 10 312 

100,8
57,29

 1 031 890  01/04/2015
 247 378  12/11/2015

 2 573 654 
 3 611 720 
 5 338 441 

 2 573 654 
 3 611 720 
 5 338 441 

 11 523 815 

 11 523 815 

 14 555 

 34 764 

 1 279 268 

 3 641 

 8 696 

100,8

 367 013  01/04/2015

 706 225 
 884 367 
 1 514 403 

 706 225 
 884 367 
 1 514 403 

 3 104 995 

 3 104 995 

 3 641 

 8 696 

 367 013 

 2 169 
 1 508 

 5 179 
 3 603 

100,8
66,65

 218 635  01/04/2015
 100 508  26/08/2015

 669 981 
 836 232 
 1 514 403 

 669 981 
 836 232 
 1 514 403 

 3 020 616 

 3 020 616 

 3 677 

 8 782 

 319 143 

01/05/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

 950 780 
 1 023 754 
 1 472 477 

 950 780 
 1 023 754 
 1 472 477 

 3 447 011 

 3 447 011 

01/04/2015
01/11/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018
01/09/2018
18/12/2018

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017
01/04/2018

 4 614 
 2 540 

 11 018 
 6 066 

100,8
57,29

 465 091  01/04/2015
 145 517  03/11/2015

 1 349 033 
 1 668 059 
 2 399 211 
 3 591 814 
 3 591 814 

 1 349 033 
 1 668 059 
 2 399 211 
 3 591 814 
 3 591 814 

 12 599 931 

 12 599 931 

 7 154 

 17 084 

 610 608 

 8 747 

100,8

 369 130  01/04/2015

 716 223 
 885 600 
 1 273 725 

 716 223 
 885 600 
 1 273 725 

 2 875 548 

 2 875 548 

 8 747 

 369 130 

 8 357 

 19 961 

100,8

 842 386  01/04/2015

 1 806 301 
 2 225 033 

 1 806 301 
 2 225 033 

 4 031 334 

 4 031 334 

 8 357 

 19 961 

 842 386 

 3 667 

 8 757 

100,8

 369 634  01/04/2015

 812 890 
 1 019 350 
 1 466 136 

 812 890 
 1 019 350 
 1 466 136 

 3 298 376 

 3 298 376 

 3 667 

 8 757 

 369 634 

 1 578 

 3 767 

100,8

 159 062  01/04/2015

 389 710 
 481 886 
 693 057 

 389 710 
 481 886 
 693 057 

 1 564 653 

 1 564 653 

 1 578 

 3 767 

 159 062 

1	
2	

Based	on	a	share	price	of	R44,04	on	31	December	2015.
Shares	forfeited	due	to	performance	conditions	not	being	fully	met.

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Management share scheme – LTIP

2015

Executive directors
SA Nkosi

WA de Klerk

Prescribed officers
MDM Mgojo

Rights held at 
31 December 
Number

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December 
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December1
R

Options 
exercised 
during the year
Number

Shares 
forfeited2
Number

Sale price/
market price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

68 565
94 011
135 608

 298 184 

34 689
14 630
58 439
82 010

01/04/2014
01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

01/04/2014
01/04/2015
01/11/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

 7 096 478 
 9 730 139 
 14 035 428 

 7 096 478 
 9 730 139 
 14 035 428 

34 801

1 737

140,08

 4 874 924   09/04/2014 

 30 862 045 

 30 862 045 

 34 801 

 1 737 

 4 874 924 

17399

869

140,08

 2 437 252  03/04/2014

 3 590 312 
 1 514 205 
 6 048 437 
 8 488 035 

 3 590 312 
 1 514 205 
 6 048 437 
 8 488 035 

 189 768 

 19 640 989 

 19 640 989 

 17 399 

 869 

 2 437 252 

01/04/2014
01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

27 812
38 843
47 848

 114 503 

 13 414 

 670 

140,08

 1 879 033  10/04/2014

 2 878 542 
 4 020 251 
 4 952 268 

 2 878 542 
 4 020 251 
 4 952 268 

 11 851 061 

 11 851 061 

 13 414 

 670 

 1 879 033 

MI Mthenjane

21 589
23 246

01/05/2016
01/05/2017

 2 234 462 
 2 405 961 

 2 234 462 
 2 405 961 

M Piater

PE Venter

M Veti

CH Wessels

 44 835 

15 632
8 606
30 632
37 876

 92 746 

28 318
41 015
50 523

 119 856 

12 424
18 458
23 146

 54 028 

5 345
8 849
10 942

 25 136 

01/04/2014
01/04/2015
01/11/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

01/04/2014
01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

01/04/2014
01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

01/06/2014
01/04/2015
01/04/2016
01/04/2017

 4 640 423 

 4 640 423 

 1 617 912 
 890 721 
 3 170 412 
 3 920 166 

 1 617 912 
 890 721 
 3 170 412 
 3 920 166 

 9 599 211 

 9 599 211 

 2 930 913 
 4 245 053 
 5 229 131 

 2 930 913 
 4 245 053 
 5 229 131 

 12 405 097 

 12 405 097 

 1 285 884 
 1 910 403 
 2 395 611 

 1 285 884 
 1 910 403 
 2 395 611 

 5 591 898 

 5 591 898 

 553 208 
 915 872 
 1 132 497 

 553 208 
 915 872 
 1 132 497 

 8 136 

 406 

140,08

 1 139 691  07/04/2014

 8 136 

 13 433 

 406 

 671 

 1 139 691 

140,08

 1 881 695  04/04/2014

 13 433 

 5 875 

 671 

 293 

 1 881 695 

140,08

 822 970  10/04/2014

 5 875 

2 796

 293 

140

 822 970 

148,52

 415 262  02/09/2014

 2 601 577 

 2 601 577 

 2 796 

 140 

 415 262 

1	
2	

Based	on	a	share	price	of	R103,50	on	31	December	2014.
Shares	forfeited	due	to	performance	conditions	not	being	fully	met.

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Management share scheme – DBP 

2015

Executive directors
SA Nkosi

MDM Mgojo

WA de Klerk

Prescribed officers
AW Diedericks

JG Meyer

MI Mthenjane

Rights held at 
31 December 
Number

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December 
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December1
R

Options 
exercised 
during the year
Number

Sale price/
market price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

 06/03/2015 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 

 06/03/2015 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

 06/03/2015 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 31/03/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 

 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 
 31/08/2018 

 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 
 31/08/2018 

 31/03/2016 
 07/03/2017 

 1 326 
 1 004 
 3 204 
 409 
 1 933 
 15 959 

 23 835 

 127 
 3 854 
 574 
 2 255 
 4 560 
 778 

 12 148 

 827 
 4 320 
 640 
 2 082 
 5 687 
 262 
 1 236 
 8 790 

 23 844 

 55 
 1 807 
 339 
 440 
 2 350 
 137 
 649 
 3 618 
 1 276 

 10 671 

 468 
 1 360 
 1 028 
 2 196 
 130 
 614 
 3 450 
 1 240 

 10 486 

 138 
 563 

 701 

 569 
 1 346 
 3 099 
 370 

109,72
109,72
102,59
67,59

 62 431  16/03/2015
 147 683  17/03/2015
 317 926  13/04/2015
 25 008  08/09/2015

 5 384 

 252 
 558 
 1 455 
 104 

 553 048 

109,72
109,72
102,59
67,59

 27 649  17/03/2015
 61 224  17/03/2015
 149 268  13/04/2015
 7 029  08/09/2015

 2 369 

 355 
 842 
 1 679 
 234 

 245 170 

109,72
109,72
102,59
67,59

 38 951  18/03/2015
 92 384  18/03/2015
 172 249  02/04/2015
 15 816  08/09/2015

 58 397 
 44 216 
 141 104 
 18 012 
 85 129 
 702 834 

 58 397 
 44 216 
 141 104 
 18 012 
 85 129 
 702 834 

 1 049 692 

 1 049 692 

 5 593 
 169 730 
 25 279 
 99 310 
 200 822 
 34 263 

 5 593 
 169 730 
 25 279 
 99 310 
 200 822 
 34 263 

 534 997 

 534 997 

 36 421 
 190 253 
 28 186 
 91 691 
 250 455 
 11 538 
 54 433 
 387 112 

 36 421 
 190 253 
 28 186 
 91 691 
 250 455 
 11 538 
 54 433 
 387 112 

 1 050 089 

 1 050 089 

 3 110 

 319 400 

 373 
 658 
 45 

109,72
102,59
67,59

 40 926  16/03/2015
 67 504  08/04/2015
 3 042  08/09/2015

 2 422 
 79 580 
 14 930 
 19 378 
 103 494 
 6 033 
 28 582 
 159 337 
 56 195 

 2 422 
 79 580 
 14 930 
 19 378 
 103 494 
 6 033 
 28 582 
 159 337 
 56 195 

 469 951 

 469 951 

 1 076 

 111 472 

 20 611 
 59 894 
 45 273 
 96 712 
 5 725 
 27 041 
 151 938 
 54 610 

 20 611 
 59 894 
 45 273 
 96 712 
 5 725 
 27 041 
 151 938 
 54 610 

 461 804 

 461 804 

 6 078 
 24 795 

 30 873 

 6 078 
 24 795 

 30 873 

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Management share scheme – DBP (continued)

2015

Prescribed officers (continued)
M Piater

Dr N Tsengwa

PE Venter

M Veti

CH Wessels

Rights held at 
31 December 
Number

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December 
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December1
R

Options 
exercised 
during the year
Number

Sale price/
market price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

 08/03/2016 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 
 31/08/2018 

 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 
 31/08/2018 

 31/08/2015 

 06/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 13/05/2018 
 31/08/2018 

 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 
 06/03/2018 
 31/03/2018 

 597 
 1 330 
 252 
 1 462 
 4 046 
 185 
 867 
 3 107 
 1 526 

 13 372 

 87 
 889 
 87 
 46 
 159 
 896 
 1 812 
 532 

 4 508 

 461 
 208 
 688 
 88 
 416 
 2 581 
 727 

 5 169 

 428 
 126 
 430 
 735 
 55 
 262 
 1 163 

 3 199 

 250 
 609 
 947 
 167 

109,72
109,72
102,59
67,59

 27 430  18/03/2015
 66 819  18/03/2015
 97 153  13/04/2015
 11 288  08/09/2015

 26 292 
 58 573 
 11 098 
 64 386 
 178 186 
 8 147 
 38 183 
 136 832 
 67 205 

 26 292 
 58 573 
 11 098 
 64 386 
 178 186 
 8 147 
 38 183 
 136 832 
 67 205 

 588 902 

 588 902 

 1 973 

 202 690 

 376 
 772 
 97 

109,72
102,59
67,59

 41 255  17/03/2015
 79 199  02/04/2015
 6 556  08/09/2015

 3 831 
 39 152 
 3 831 
 2 026 
 7 002 
 39 460 
 79 800 
 23 429 

 3 831 
 39 152 
 3 831 
 2 026 
 7 002 
 39 460 
 79 800 
 23 429 

 198 531 

 198 531 

 1 245 

 127 010 

 213 

 213 

 197 
 134 

67,59

 14 397  02/09/2015

 14 397 

109,72
67,59

 21 615  18/03/2015
 9 057  08/09/2015

 20 302 
 9 160 
 30 300 
 3 876 
 18 321 
 113 667 
 32 017 

 20 302 
 9 160 
 30 300 
 3 876 
 18 321 
 113 667 
 32 017 

 227 643 

 227 643 

 331 

 30 672 

 18 849 
 5 549 
 18 937 
 32 369 
 2 422 
 11 538 
 51 219 

 18 849 
 5 549 
 18 937 
 32 369 
 2 422 
 11 538 
 51 219 

 140 883 

 140 883 

1		 Based	on	a	share	price	of	R44,04	on	31	December	2015.

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Management share scheme – DBP

2014

Executive directors
SA Nkosi

WA de Klerk

Prescribed officers
MDM Mgojo

MI Mthenjane

M Piater

Rights held at 
31 December 
Number

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December 
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December1
R

Options 
exercised 
during the year
Number

Sale price/
market price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

 1 492 
 2 934 

149,12
140,52

 222 487   19/03/2014 
 412 286   07/04/2014 

 4 426 

 932 
 1 542 

 634 773 

149,12
140,52

 138 980   10/03/2014 
 216 682   09/04/2014 

 28/02/2014 
 31/03/2014 
 11/11/2014 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

569
1 346
3 099
370
1 326
1 004
3 204
409

 58 892 
 139 311 
 320 747 
 38 295 
 137 241 
 103 914 
 331 614 
 42 332 

 58 892 
 139 311 
 320 747 
 38 295 
 137 241 
 103 914 
 331 614 
 42 332 

 11 327 

 1 172 346 

 1 172 346 

 28/02/2014 
 31/03/2014 
 11/11/2014 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 31/03/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

 355 
842
1 679
234
827
4 320
640
2 082
5 687
262

 36 743 
 87 147 
 173 777 
 24 219 
 85 595 
 447 120 
 66 240 
 215 487 
 588 605 
 27 117 

 36 743 
 87 147 
 173 777 
 24 219 
 85 595 
 447 120 
 66 240 
 215 487 
 588 605 
 27 117 

 16 928 

 1 752 050 

 1 752 050 

 2 474 

 355 662 

 28/02/2014 
 31/03/2014 
 11/11/2014 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

31/08/2016
 31/03/2017 

 28/02/2014 
 31/03/2014 
 11/11/2014 
 28/02/2015 
 31/03/2015 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

252
558
1 455
104
127
3 854
574
2 255
4 560
778

 14 517 

 138 
 563 

 701 

250
609
947
167
597
1 330
252
1 462
4 046
185

 600 
 1 186 

149,12
140,52

 89 472   10/03/2014 
 166 657   07/04/2014 

 26 082 
 57 753 
 150 593 
 10 764 
 13 145 
 398 889 
 59 409 
 233 393 
 471 960 
 80 523 

 26 082 
 57 753 
 150 593 
 10 764 
 13 145 
 398 889 
 59 409 
 233 393 
 471 960 
 80 523 

 1 502 511 

 1 502 511 

 1 786 

 256 129 

 644 
 794 

149,12
140,52

 96 033   18/03/2014 
 111 573   09/04/2014 

 14 283 
 58 271 

 72 554 

 14 283 
 58 271 

 72 554 

 25 875 
 63 032 
 98 015 
 17 285 
 61 790 
 137 655 
 26 082 
 151 317 
 418 761 
 19 148 

 25 875 
 63 032 
 98 015 
 17 285 
 61 790 
 137 655 
 26 082 
 151 317 
 418 761 
 19 148 

 9 845 

 1 018 960 

 1 018 960 

 1 438 

 207 606 

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Management share scheme – DBP (continued)

2014

Prescribed officers (continued)
PE Venter

M Veti

Rights held at 
31 December 
Number

Exercisable 
period

Proceeds if 
exercisable at 
31 December 
R

Pre-tax gain if 
exercisable at 
31 December1
R

Options 
exercised 
during the year
Number

Sale price/
market price
R

Pre-tax 
gain
R

Date 
exercised

 213 

 31/08/2015 

 213 

 197 
134
461
208
688
88

 28/02/2014 
 31/03/2014 
 11/11/2014 
 31/08/2015 
 08/03/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

 22 046 

 22 046 

 22 046 

 22 046 

 20 390 
 13 869 
 47 714 
 21 528 
 71 208 
 9 108 

 20 390 
 13 869 
 47 714 
 21 528 
 71 208 
 9 108 

 510 
 637 

149,12
140,52

 76 051   17/03/2014 
 89 511   10/04/2014 

 1 776 

 183 817 

 183 817 

 1 147 

 165 562 

CH Wessels

428
126
430
735
55

 01/04/2016 
 31/08/2016 
 07/03/2017 
 31/03/2017 
 31/08/2017 

 44 298 
 13 041 
 44 505 
 76 073 
 5 693 

 44 298 
 13 041 
 44 505 
 76 073 
 5 693 

 1 774 

 183 610 

 183 610 

1	

Based	on	a	shre	price	of	R103,50,	on	31	December	2014.

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EXXARO INTEGRATED REPORT 2015MINING CHARTER 
PERFORMANCE

Element

Metric

Actual 
2010

Actual 
2011

Actual 
2012

Actual 
2013

Actual 
2014*

Actual 
2015**

Ownership

Black ownership

  52,10%

 52,14%

 52,14%

 52,09%

 52,09%

 52,09%

Beneficiation

Domestic use

Procurement  
and enterprise 
development

Capital goods

Services

Consumables

Employment equity

Top management

Senior management

Middle management

Junior management

Core and critical skills

Human resources 
development

Percentage of payroll 
(excl levies)

Community 
development

% of net profit after tax or 
LED project completion

  Yes

  43%

  24%

  25%

  50%

  30%

  51%

  63%

  25%

  5,1%

  2,5%

Housing and living

Hostel conversion
Occupancy rate
Home ownership

1,15% of 
employees

Sustainable 
development

Environment

Health and safety

 Programmes
in place to
 achieve target
 by 2014

Developmental
 plans for 70% 
of actions for 
safety and 
health

Implementation
 of approved 
EMPs

Health: 100% 
of  mandatory
 reports 
 submitted 

Yes

45%

42%

43%

60%

34%

54%

64%

Not 
reported

Yes

59%

37%

47%

  None

44%

54%

69%

98%

Yes

49%

58%

62%

60%

53%

55%

65%

96%

Yes

34%

69%

71%

67%

42%

57%

73%

98%

5,5%

  6,6%

5,3%

  9,95%

Yes

53%

82%

79%

79%

34%

56%

75%

96%

7,9%

62%

1,8%

22%

  4,7%

0,9%

1,8%

  100%

  100%

91%

93%

98%

90%

 Number 
of people 
sharing – 0

Implementation 
of approved 
EMPs

Leadership
 strategies 
(programmes 
implemented)

No 
employees 
sharing 
rooms

Rehabilitation 
and closure 
plans drafted 
for all mines

MOSH leading
 practices 
and MHSC 
research 
findings 
investigated and 
implemented

Research and 
development

  100%

Samples
 predominantly
 analysed in 
South Africa

  100%

  100%

  100%

  100%

Reporting

Annual reporting to DMR

  Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  Missed target 
  Missed target by <5% 
  Met/exceeded target 

*	 The	2014	scorecard	reflects	the	average	across	eight	operational	mining	right	sites	only.
**	 The	2015	scorecard	reflects	the	average	across	seven	operational	mining	right	sites	only	and	excludes	the	ECC	mines.

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