Assured South African Mining Charter performance indicators

Table 2. Selected South African Mining Charter performance indicators for the 2022 reporting period in our reasonable assurance scope and disclosed by Gold Fields in the Report.

Parameter Unit Page number
Percentage implementation of Mine Community Development Projects in approved and published Social and Labour Plan (SLP) ("Table S"1) Number of projects 69
Progress to date 69
HDSAs2 in management (in proportion to applicable demographics) made up of: 69
Board: 50% black persons with exercisable voting rights, of which 20% must be black women Board: Percentage black persons % 69
Board: Percentage black women % 69
Executive/top management: 50% black persons of which 15% must be black women Exec: Percentage black persons % 69
Exec: Percentage black women % 69
Senior: 50% black persons of which 15% must be black women Senior: Percentage black persons % 69
Senior: Percentage black women % 69
Middle: 60% black persons of which 20% must be black women Middle: Percentage black persons % 69
Middle: Percentage black women % 69
Junior: 70% black persons of which 25% must be black women Junior: Percentage black persons % 69
Junior: Percentage black women % 69
Employees with disabilities: 1.5% as a percentage of all employees Disabilities: Percentage 69
Core skills: 50% black persons Core skills: Percentage 69
Mining goods:
70% of procurement spend on goods (excluding non-discretionary spend) must be on South African manufactured goods, proportioned as follows regarding the manufacturing entity:
21% by HDPs2 owned and controlled company Percentage procured from HDPs owned and controlled company 69
5% by women OR by young owned and controlled company Percentage women OR by young owned and controlled company 69
44% by BEE3 compliant company Percentage procured from BEE-compliant company 69
Mining services: 80% of procurement spend on services (excluding non-discretionary spend) must be sourced from South African companies, proportioned as follows:
50% on HDPs owned and controlled company Percentage discretionary spend on HDPs owned and controlled company 69
15% on women owned and controlled company Percentage discretionary spend on women owned and controlled company 69
5% on youth Percentage discretionary spend on youth 69
10% on BEE compliant company Percentage discretionary spend on BEE compliant company 69
Research and Development (R&D) budget spend of which 70%
must be spent on South African-based R&D entities
% of spend on R&D entities 69
R-value of spend 69
1 As per the Implementation Guidelines for the BBSEEC for the South African Mining and Minerals Industry (2018)
2 Historically Disadvantaged South African
3 Historically Disadvantaged Persons
4 Black Economic Empowerment