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 Introduction ► Focus on the customer ►  Management of human resources ►  Socio economic ►  Safety and environment ►  Economic ►  Research, development and  demonstration ► Required statutory information ►
 Western Cape electricity supply  Capacity planning and management  Maintenance  Customer satisfaction  Broadening the electricity industry  Technical performance
 Human Resources sustainability index  Human resources shared services  Change management  People development  Employee relations  Remuneration and benefits  Health and wellness
 Equity  Corporate citizenship  Support for Nepad  United Nations Global Compact
 Occupational hygiene and safety risk management  Environmental management system  Energy purchases and resources management
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 Research  Demonstration
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 of the business  High-level performance for
 the period
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GRI and UN Global Compact index

An index to the 2006 Annual Report based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting guideline criteria and the 10 principles of the
UN Global Compact is provided in the table.
     
Key Fully reported
  Partially reported
     
 GRI  Description UN Global  Reference(s) in annual report  
 reference   Compact    
    Principle1    
 Vision and strategy
 1.1 – 1.2  Vision, strategy statement and statement 8  Profile – vision, key competency, core strategy  
   from CEO    Chairman’s report and Chief executive’s report  
 Profile
 2.1 – 2.9  Organisational profile    Profile – key facts, tables 5 and 6  
         
   Details of the organisation    Investments in associates, joint ventures and subsidiaries  
       notes 8 , 9 and 10  
       Executive summary  
   List of stakeholders    Corporate governance – stakeholder engagement  
       Directors’ report:  
       – Introduction, functions and objectives of the business  
 2.10 – 2.16  Report scope – contact person, reporting    Profile – scope of report and contact information  
   period, date of previous report, boundaries    Directors’ report – introduction  
   of report, significant changes, reporting on joint    Accounting policies  
   ventures and restatements    Notes 8, 9 and 10 – Investments in associates, joint ventures  
       and subsidiaries  
 2.17 – 2.22  Report profile – applying of GRI principles,    Profile – scope of report  
   criteria and definitions and changes in    Chief executive's report  
   measurement methods.    Corporate governance – stakeholder engagement  
   Internal assurance, independent verification,    Directors’ report – Introduction, functions and objectives  
   obtaining additional information    of the business  
       Directors’ report – UN global compact  
       Report of the independent auditors to the Minister of  
       Public Enterprises  
 Governance structures and management systems
 3.1 – 3.8  Structures and governance – governance    Profile – vision  
   structure, independence of board, advisors to    Corporate governance  
   board, board-level processes, organisational    Profile – organisational structure  
   structure, shareholder resolutions    Directors’ report – introduction (governance structures,  
   Link to executive compensation    processes and internal control), directors’ remuneration  
   Mission and value statements      
 3.9 – 3.12  Stakeholder engagement – identification,    Corporate governance – shareholding,  
   consultation and information from stakeholders     shareholder compact, stakeholder engagement  
   and its use    Directors’ report – customer satisfaction  
 3.13 – 20  Overarching policies and management systems: 7  Corporate governance – introduction,  
   – precautionary principle    risk management committee, integrated risk management  
   – external initiatives    Directors’ report – introduction, functions and objectives of  
   – business association memberships    the business, sustainability, Western Cape electricity supply,  
   – major operations decisions    capacity planning and management and environmental  
   – impacts, performance programmes    impact assessments, socio economic, corporate citizenship,  
   – management system certification status    high-level performance for the period, technical performance,  
       safety and environment: environmental management system  
 Performance indicators
 Economic performance indicators (EC)
 EC1 – 5  Net sales geographic breakdown of markets    Key statistics  
   by sales    Directors’ report – value creation and distribution  
   Cost of all goods, materials, and services    Balance sheets, income statements  
   purchased    Tables – categories of customers  
   Total payroll and benefits    Notes to the financial statements – employee benefit  
 EC6 – 10,  Distributions to providers of capital, increase/    Balance sheets, income statements  
 12,13  decrease in retained earnings, taxes paid by    Notes to the financial statements  
 (additional)  country, subsidies received by country,    Chairman’s report  
   donations and total spent on non-core    Chief executive’s report  
   business infrastructure    Directors’ report – corporate citizenship (electrification,  
   Organisation’s indirect economic impacts    free basic electricity), environmental externalities  
 Environmental performance indicators (EN)
 EN1, 2  Materials: total material use and percent of 8  Table 2 – Statistical overview  
   materials used that are wastes    Directors’ report – safety and environment:  
       waste management  
 EN3, 4,  Energy: direct energy use, indirect energy use, 8  Table 2 – Statistical overview  
 17 – 19  renewable energy, energy consumption 9  Directors’ report – capacity planning and management,  
 (additional)  footprint and other indirect energy use    renewable energy, energy efficiency, research,  
       development and demonstration  
 EN5,  Water: water use, water sources, related 8  Directors’ report – technical performance, safety and  
 20 – 22  ecosystems affected by use of water, ground 9  environment: environmental performance and  
 (additional)  and surface water use as percentage of annual    energy purchases and resource management  
   renewable quantity, total recycling and reuse    Table 2 – Statistical overview  
   of water      
 EN6, 7,  Biodiversity: land in biodiversity-rich habitats, 8  Directors’ report – safety and environment:  
 23 – 29  major impacts on biodiversity, land managed,    Land, biodiversity and quality of supply management  
 (additional)  operations and impact on protected and    Tables 3 and 5  
   sensitive areas      
 EN8 – 13,  Emissions, effluents and waste: greenhouse gas 8  Directors’ report – environmental legal requirement  
 31  emissions by gas, ozone depleting substances, 9  Environmental performance, waste management,  
 (additional)  NOx, SOx air emissions, waste by type and    climate change, air quality management  
   destination, water discharges significant spills,    Tables 2 and 4  
   hazardous waste      
 EN14 – 16,  Products, services, suppliers and compliance: 8  Directors’ report – safety and environment:  
 33  environmental impacts of products and percent    Occupational hygiene and safety risk management,  
 (additional)  of product's weight that is reclaimable and    environmental legal requirements, energy purchases  
   reclaimed, noncompliance penalties,    and resource management  
   performance of suppliers      
 EN34, 35  Transport and overall impacts of transport    Directors’ report – safety and environment: environmental  
 (additional)  Environmental expenditure by type    accounting, energy purchases and resource management:  
       coal  
 
 Social performance indicators: labour practices and decent work (LA)
 LA1, 2  Employment: employee benefits    Directors’ report – management of human resources:  
 (additional)      remuneration and benefits, value creation and distribution  
         
 LA3, 4, 13  Labour relations: percentage represented 3  Directors’ report – management of human resources:  
 (additional)  unions by country, employee consultation in    Employee relations  
   regard to operations, worker representation      
 LA5 – 8,  Health and safety: reporting, committees, 1  Corporate governance – board committees: sustainability,  
 14 – 15  standard injury and lost day rates and HIV/Aids    Exco, Sustainability, occupational hygiene, safety and  
 (additional)  policies and programmes    environmental management  
   Compliance with ILO, formal agreements with    Directors’ report – health and wellness, managing  
   trade unions on health and safety    the impact of HIV/Aids, occupational hygiene and  
       safety risk management, UN global compact  
 LA9 – 11,  Training, education, diversity and opportunity: 6  Directors’ report – high-level performance for the period,  
 16, 17  career management, skills management, equal    management of human resources – change management,  
 (additional)  opportunity, female/male ratio in management    people development, equity, corporate social investments  
         
 Social performance indicators: human rights (HR)
 HR1 – 7,  Human rights: consideration of human rights 1  Corporate governance – ethical business conduct  
 8 – 14  impacts, non-discrimination, freedom of 2  Directors’ report – management of human resources,  
 (additional)  association, child and forced labour, revenues 3  social economic  
   distributed to local communities 4    
    5    
    6    
 Social performance indicators: society (SO)
 SO1 – 3,  Society: impacts on communities’ bribery and 10  Corporate governance – Public Finance Management Act,  
 4 – 7  corruption, political lobbying and contributions    ethical business conduct  
 (additional)  policy    Directors’ report – Introduction, socio economic:  
   Awards    electrification, free basic electricity, Nepad,  
       UN Global Compact  
 Social performance indicators: product responsibility (PR)
 PR1 – 3,  Product responsibility: customer health and    Directors’ report – customer satisfaction, safety and  
 4 – 11  safety, products and services, advertising and    environment: occupational hygiene and safety risk  
 (additional)  privacy    management  
         


1Principles

1 and 2 – Human rights
3 – Freedom of association
4 – Elimination of forced or compulsory labour
5 – Abolition of child labour
6 – Eliminate discrimination
7 – Precautionary approach
8 – Environmental responsibility
9 – Friendly technologies
10 – Work against corruption

 

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