Reporting in line with GRI

Sibanye has adopted the G4 guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in preparing this report, and reports “in accordance” with the core option, including the GRI’s G4 Mining and Metals Sector Supplement, to communicate the Group’s economic, environmental, and social and governance impacts.

Certain non-financial key performance indicators within this report have been assured by KPMG Services, and are presented in the Independent Assurance Report in the Sibanye Gold Integrated Annual Report 2014. Key sustainability performance data selected by Sibanye for assurance by KPMG Services can be found under Assured Data.

General standard disclosures
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Strategy and analysis
G4-1: Provide a statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organisation (such as CEO, chair or equivalent senior position) about the relevance of sustainability to the organisation and the organisation’s strategy for addressing sustainability	Chief Executive’s report
G4-2: Provide a description of key impacts, risks and opportunities	External context Business overview Perspective from the Chair Chief Executive’s report Managing risk, identifying opportunities Engaging with stakeholders Material issues Financial capital Human capital Manufactured capital and Intellectual capital Social and relationship capital Natural capital Statement of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Accountability Annual financial statements
Organisational profile
G4-3: Report the name of the organisation	Throughout this report
G4-4: Report the primary brands, products and services	Group profile Business overview Perspective from the Chair Chief Executive’s report CFO’s report Human capital Manufactured capital and Intellectual capital Social and relationship capital Natural capital Accountability
G4-5: Report the location of the organisation’s headquarters	Group profile Administration and corporate information
G4-6: Report the number of countries where the organisation operates, and names of countries where either the organisation has significant operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability topics covered in the report	Group profile
G4-7: Report the nature of ownership and legal form	Group profile Annual financial statements
G4-8: Report the markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers and beneficiaries)	Group profile Annual financial statements
G4-9: Report the scale of the organisation, including: Total number of employees Total number of operations Net sales (for private sector organisations) or net revenues (for public sector organisations) Total capitalisation broken down in terms of debt and equity (for private sector organisations) Quantity of products or services provided	Group profile Business overview Key features – Financial and non-financial performance CFO’s report Financial capital Manufactured capital and Intellectual capital Annual financial statements
G4-10: Report the total number of employees by employment contract and gender Report the total number of permanent employees by employment type and gender Report the total workforce by employees and supervised workers and by gender Report the total workforce by region and gender Report whether a substantial portion of the organisation’s work is performed by workers who are legally recognised as self-employed, or by individuals other than employees or supervised workers, including employees and supervised employees of contractors Report any significant variations in employment numbers	Business overview Key features – Financial and non-financial performance External context Perspective from the Chair Chief Executive’s report Human capital Corporate governance report
G4-11: Report the percentage of total employees covered by collective bargaining agreements	External context Chief Executive’s report Human capital Annual financial statements
G4-12: Describe the organisation’s supply chain	Financial capital Annual financial statements
G4-13: Report any significant changes during the reporting period regarding the organisation’s size, structure, ownership, or its supply chain, including: Changes in the location of, or changes in, operations, including facility openings, closings, and expansions Changes in the share capital structure and other capital formation, maintenance, and alteration operations (for private sector organisations) Changes in the location of suppliers, the structure of the supply chain, or in relationships with suppliers, including selection and termination	Throughout this report
G4-15: List externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles, or other initiatives to which the organisation subscribes or which it endorses	Guide to our 2014 reports External context Chief Executive’s report Financial capital Corporate governance report Annual financial statements
G4-16: List memberships of associations (such as industry associations) and national or international advocacy organisations in which the organisation: Holds a position on the governance body Participates in projects or committees Provides substantive funding beyond routine membership dues Views membership as strategic	External context Engaging with stakeholders Manufactured capital and Intellectual capital Social and relationship capital Natural capital Annual financial statements
Identified material aspects and boundaries
G4-17: List all entities included in the organisation’s consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents Report whether any entity included in the organisation’s consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents is not covered by the report	Annual financial statements
G4-18: Explain the process for defining the report content and the Aspect Boundaries Explain how the organisation has implemented the Reporting Principles for Defining Report Content	Guide to our 2014 reports Material issues
G4-19: List all the material Aspects identified in the process for defining report content	Guide to our 2014 reports Material issues
G4-20: For each material Aspect, report the Aspect Boundary within the organisation, as follows: Report whether the Aspect is material within the organisation If the Aspect is not material for all entities within the organisation (as described in G4-17), select one of the following two approaches and report either: The list of entities or groups of entities included in G4-17 for which the Aspect is not material or The list of entities or groups of entities included in G4-17 for which the Aspects is material Report any specific limitation regarding the Aspect Boundary within the organisation	Guide to our 2014 reports Material issues
G4-21: For each material Aspect, report the Aspect Boundary outside the organisation, as follows: Report whether the Aspect is material outside of the organisation If the Aspect is material outside of the organisation, identify the entities, groups of entities or elements for which the Aspect is material, and describe the geographical location where the Aspect is material for the entities identified Report any specific limitation regarding the Aspect Boundary outside the organisation	Guide to our 2014 reports
G4-22: Report the effect of any restatements of information provided in previous reports and the reasons for such restatements	Objectives Natural capital Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Supplement to the Integrated Annual Report 2014
G4-23: Report significant changes from previous reporting periods in the Scope and Aspect Boundaries	Material issues
Stakeholder engagement
G4-24: Provide a list of stakeholder groups engaged by the organisation	Engaging with stakeholders Natural capital
G4-25: Report the basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage	Engaging with stakeholders Natural capital
G4-26: Report the organisation’s approach to stakeholder engagement, including frequency of engagement by type and by stakeholder group, and an indication of whether any of the engagement was undertaken specifically as part of the report preparation process	Engaging with stakeholders Natural capital
G4-27: Report key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement, and how the organisation has responded to those key topics and concerns, including through its reporting, and report the stakeholder groups that raised each of the key topics and concerns	Social and relationship capital Natural capital
Report profile
G4-28: Reporting period (such as fiscal or calendar year) for information provided	Guide to our 2014 reports
G4-29: Date of most recent previous report	Guide to our 2014 reports
G4-30: Reporting cycle (such as annual, biennial)	Throughout this report
G4-31: Provide the contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents	Guide to our 2014 reports
G4-32: a. Report the “in accordance” option the organisation has chosen	GRI content index
G4-33: Report the organisation’s policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report If not included in the assurance report accompanying the sustainability report, report the scope and basis of any external assurance provided Report the relationship between the organisation and the assurance providers Report whether the highest governance body or senior executives are involved in seeking assurance for the organisation’s sustainability report	Guide to our 2014 reports Independent Assurance Report Report of the Audit Committee
Governance
G4-34: Report the governance structure of the organisation, including committees of the highest governance body, and identify any committees responsible for decision-making on economic, environmental and social impacts	Board Management Corporate governance report
G4-51: a. Report the remuneration policies for the highest governance body and senior executives for the following types of remuneration: Fixed pay and variable pay: Performance-based pay Equity-based pay Bonuses Deferred or vested shares Sign-on bonuses or recruitment incentive payments Termination payments Clawbacks Retirement benefits, including the difference between benefit schemes and contribution rates for the highest governance body, senior executives, and all other employees b. Report how performance criteria in the remuneration policy relate to the highest governance body’s and senior executives’ economic, environmental and social objectives	Remuneration report
G4-52: Report the process for determining remuneration, whether remuneration consultants are involved in determining remuneration and whether they are independent of management, and report any other relationships which the remuneration consultants have with the organisation	Remuneration report
Ethics and integrity
G4-56: Describe the organisation’s values, principles, standards and norms of behaviour such as codes of conduct and codes of ethics	Group profile Chief Executive’s report Human capital Social and relationship capital Corporate governance report Report of the Social and Ethics Committee Report of the Audit Committee

Specific standard disclosures
Material aspects Disclosures on Management Approach (DMA) and indicators	Page
Category: economic
Aspect: Economic performance
G4-EC1: Direct economic value generated and distributed	Social and relationship capital Natural capital
G4-EC2: Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organisation’s activities due to climate change	Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Natural capital
G4-EC3: Coverage of the organisation’s defined benefit plan obligations	Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Human capital Remuneration report Annual financial statements
Aspect: Market presence
G4-EC5: Ratios of standard entry level wage by gender compared to local minimum wage at significant locations of operation	Human capital
G4-EC6: Proportion of senior management hired from the local community at significant locations of operation	Human capital
Aspect: Indirect economic impacts
G4-EC7: Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services supported	External context Social and relationship capital
G4-EC8: Significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts	Social and relationship capital Natural capital
Aspect: Procurement practices
G4-EC9: Proportion of spending on local suppliers at significant locations of operation	External context Business overview Financial capital Social and relationship capital
Category: Environment
Aspect: Materials
G4-EN1: Materials used by weight or volume	Business overview Natural capital
Aspect: Energy
G4-EN3: Energy consumption within the organisation	Business overview Natural capital
G4-EN5: Energy intensity	Natural capital
G4-EN6: Reduction of energy consumption	Chief Executive’s report Natural capital
Aspect: Water
G4-EN8: Total water withdrawal by source	Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Natural capital
G4-EN9: Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water	Natural capital
G4-EN10: Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused	Natural capital
Aspect: Biodiversity
MM1: Amount of land (owned or leased, and managed for production activities or extractive use) disturbed or rehabilitated	Natural capital
MM2: The number and percentage of total sites identified as requiring biodiversity management plans according to stated criteria, and the number (percentage) of those sites with plans in place	Social and relationship capital Natural capital
Aspect: Emissions
G4-EN15: Direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 1)	Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Natural capital
G4-EN16: Energy indirect GHG emissions (Scope 2)	Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Natural capital
G4-EN17: Other indirect GHG emissions (Scope 3)	Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Natural capital
G4-EN18: GHG emissions intensity	Natural capital
G4-EN19: Reduction of GHG emissions	Natural capital
G4-EN21: NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions	External context Human capital Natural capital Directors’ report Annual financial statements
Aspect: Effluents and waste
G4-EN22: Total water discharge by quality and destination	Natural capital
G4-EN24: Total number and volume of significant spills	Natural capital
MM3: Total amounts of overburden, rock, tailings, and sludges and their associated risks	Business overview Chief Executive’s report Natural capital Statement of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves
Category: Social: Labour practices and decent work
Aspect: Employment
G4-LA1: Total number and rates of new employee hires and employee turnover by age group, gender and region	Business overview Human capital
G4-LA2: Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by significant locations of operation	External context Human capital Corporate governance report Annual financial statements
Aspect: Labour/Management relations
G4-LA4: Minimum notice periods regarding operational changes, including whether these are specified in collective agreements	Human capital Remuneration report
Aspect: Occupational health and safety
G4-LA5: Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management-worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programmes	External context
G4-LA6: Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and by gender	Objectives External context Key features – Financial and non-financial performance Chief Executive’s report Human capital Directors’ report Annual financial statements
G4-LA7: Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation	Human capital
G4-LA8: Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions	External context Human capital Annual financial statements
Aspect: Training and education
G4-LA9: Average hours of training per year per employee by gender, and by employee category	Human capital
G4-LA10: Programmes for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings	Perspective from the Chair Material issues Human capital Social and relationship capital
G4-LA11: Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews, by gender and by employee category	Human capital Corporate governance report Remuneration report Annual financial statements
Aspect: Diversity and equal opportunity
G4-LA12: Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per employee category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity	Human capital Corporate governance report Report of the Social and Ethics Committee
Category: Social: Human rights
Aspect: Investment
G4-HR2: Total hours of employee training on human rights policies or procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including the percentage of employees trained	Human capital
Aspect: Freedom of association and collective bargaining
G4-HR4: Operations and suppliers identified in which the right to exercise freedom of association and collective bargaining may be violated or at significant risk, and measures taken to support these rights	Human capital
Aspect: Child labour
G4-HR5: Operations and suppliers identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labour, and measures taken to contribute to the effective abolition of child labour	Human capital
Aspect: Forced or compulsory labour
G4-HR6: Operations and suppliers identified as having significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labour, and measures to contribute to the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour	Human capital
Aspect: Security practices
G4-HR7: Percentage of security personnel trained in the organisation’s human rights policies or procedures that are relevant to operations	Human capital
Category: Social: Society
Aspect: Local communities
G4-SO1: Percentage of operations with implemented local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programmes	Engaging with stakeholders Human capital Social and relationship capital Annual financial statements
G4-SO2: Operations with significant actual and potential negative impacts on local communities	Engaging with stakeholders Social and relationship capital Natural capital
Aspect: Anti-corruption
G4-SO3: Total number and percentage of operations assessed for risks related to corruption and the significant risks identified	Human capital
G4-SO4: Communication and training on anti-corruption policies and procedures	Human capital Corporate governance report Report of the Social and Ethics Committee
G4-SO5: Confirmed incidents of corruption and actions taken	Human capital
Aspect: Resettlement
MM9: Sites where resettlements took place, the number of households resettled in each, and how their livelihoods were affected in the process	Human capital Social and relationship capital
Aspect: Closure planning
MM10: Number and percentage of operations with closure plans	External context Business overview Social and relationship capital Natural capital Annual financial statements

Integrated Annual Report 2014

Financial capital

Human capital

Manufactured capital and intellectual capital

Social and relationship capital

Natural capital

Mineral resources and mineral reserves

Reporting in line with GRI

Category: economic

Category: Environment

Category: Social: Labour practices and decent work

Category: Social: Human rights

Category: Social: Society