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Key focus - Broad-based black economic empowerment

Murray & Roberts is a meritocracy and has embraced broad-based black economic empowerment in its South African businesses, addressing the full range of empowerment requirements across its diverse operations.

As the leading South African enterprise in its sector, Murray & Roberts has adopted a comprehensive broad-based black economic empowerment strategy which aims to achieve:

  • appropriate broad-based empowerment ownership at all its operations through a tiered approach from Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited and from within selected operating subsidiaries
  • a meaningful number of black senior executives throughout the Group
  • an employee complement that reflects the diversity of South Africa’s demographic profile
  • a core complement of black professionals
  • comprehensive skills development to enhance individual and organisational capability and capacity
  • preferential procurement policies that leverage the broad-based principles of black economic empowerment
  • enterprise and social development programs aimed at accelerating the development, empowerment and access to the economy of previously disadvantaged individuals and groups

The Group has a number of BEE business partners who have taken up equity in the following businesses:

  • Elgin Engineering has a 51% share in Medupi Fabrication, a steel fabricator established for Eskom’s Medupi power station project
  • Lehumo Women’s Investment Trust has a 26% share in certain Tolcon operations
  • Royal Bafokeng Finance holds a 51% share in Bafokeng Concor Technicrete
  • Strategic Partners Group is a 25% shareholder in the Bombela Concession Company and a 10% shareholder in Bombela Civils Joint Venture and Bombela Operating Company

Additional information is available in the sustainability report.


2010 Milestones   2011 Focus
     
BBBEE rating improved to level 4
31,3% broad-based black ownership based on dti Codes of Good Practice
38% of voting rights held by black board members
R74,9 million contributed to enterprise development
R22,2 million invested in socio-economic development
 
Maintain BBBEE rating of level 4
Improve employment equity and skills development ratings
Maintain enterprise development
Thokozani Mdluli   Petrus Mulaudzi   Kelvin Pillay   Dhiren Singh   Wendy Tierlinck   Elvis Tshivilinge
Thokozani Mdluli,
group chief safety
executive
  Petrus Mulaudzi,
marketing executive,
UCW
  Kelvin Pillay,
production executive,
Hall Longmore
  Dhiren Singh,
group fi nancial
manager
  Wendy Tierlinck,
human resources
executive, Rocla
  Elvis Tshivilinge,
quality divisional
manager, UCW