South Africa’s mining sector has an outsize impact on its economy. It employs around half-a million people extending to manufacturing, infrastructure, export revenue, and energy generation. The country’s coal industry contributes about 3.5% of the world’s coal resources, around 72% of South Africa’s primary energy supply and 90% of the country’s electricity. Today, the coal industry is a more important contributor to South Africa’s economy than gold.

Exxaro Resources Limited (Exxaro) is one of the largest mining companies in South Africa. The diversified mining and energy solutions company has an asset portfolio that includes coal operations, as well as investments in iron ore, wind, and solar energy.

Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Top 40 Index and the Socially Responsible Investment Index, Exxaro has a $3.48 billion (R64.28 billion) market capitalisation and is one of the top five producers of coal in South Africa. In the last decade and a half, Exxaro has established itself as an organisation that is respected by its peers for its innovation and commitment to people development.

The organisation achieved this by acknowledging that it exists in a greater context, in line with its purpose to powering possibility in Africa and beyond.

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