Reflections on our year

2025

Mining the sun

Powering sustainable mining with renewable energy

In June 2024, DRDGOLD commissioned one of the largest renewable energy initiatives in South Africa’s mining industry. This groundbreaking project marks the first time in the country that a mining operation integrates solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, a battery energy storage system (BESS) and a connection to the Eskom power grid, while also exporting surplus electricity back into the grid.

Now fully operational, the solar plant is a pivotal step in DRDGOLD’s journey toward sustainable mining. Not only does it significantly reduce the Company’s reliance on conventional energy sources, but it also contributes to the national grid, helping to alleviate pressure on South Africa’s energy infrastructure. Watch the videos, and view the solar webinar recording and presentation to learn how DRDGOLD’s innovative solar plant is changing the future of mining and paving the way for a cleaner, more energy-efficient industry.

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Public consultation for the Recommissioning of the Withok TSF

Ergo Mining, a subsidiary of DRDGOLD Limited, is conducting a public consultation programme as required for the environmental authorisation and water use licence applications for the recommissioning of the Withok Tailings Storage Facility (TSF).

Availability of the Draft EIA/EMPr and the Draft IWWMP

The Draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)/ Environmental Management Programme Report (EMPr) reports have been compiled and will be made available for a 30-day public review and comment period from Thursday, 20 March 2025 until Tuesday, 22 April 2025.

The Draft Integrated Water and Waste Management Plan (IWWMP) report will be made available for a 60-day public review and comment period from Thursday, 20 March 2025 until Friday, 23 May 2025.

Invitation to Open Day

Interested and Affected Parties (I&APS) are invited to attend an Open Day which will be held at Tsakane ext. 22 Mega Primary School 19732 Mashimin St & Shiburi St, Tsakane, Brakpan on Saturday, 29 March 2025 from 09H00-11H00.

Notice of the public participation process and invitations to participate as interested and affected parties have been publicised in local media, and detailed information will be made available to ensure all interested and affected parties wishing to contribute are properly informed. For information on the project and public participation, contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The relevant public documents, notifications of public meetings and correspondence are available here: https://kongiwe.com/projects/

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2024

NYSE Tree lighting ceremony

DRDGOLD is proud to participate in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Global Giving Campaign to shine a light on Matla A Bana, a non-profit child protection charity organisation that aims to minimise the secondary abuse children often suffer when they report crimes against them. Our ornament can be seen at the NYSE during the campaign’s 101st Annual Tree Lighting ceremony on 5 December 2024 and throughout the holiday season.

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PUBLIC CONSULTATION FOR THE RECOMMISSIONING OF WITHOK TSF

Ergo Mining, a subsidiary of DRDGOLD Limited, conducted a public consultation programme as required for the environmental authorisation and water use licence applications for the recommissioning of the Withok Tailings Storage Facility (TSF).

The Draft Scoping Report (DSR) for the proposed project was made available for public review and comment for a period of 30 days, from Thursday, 24 October 2024 until Friday, 22 November 2024.

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2022

KHUMBUL'EKHAYA NATIONAL DAY OF HEALTH AND SAFETY IN MINING 2022

DRDGOLD, as a member of the Minerals Council, commemorated the 5th annual National Day of Health and Safety in Mining 2022 on 3 August 2022 under the theme: Stepping up to the Challenge. Our employees are our most valuable asset; their health and safety are our highest priority. For updates and more information on the Khumbul’ekhaya safety and health initiative, please visit: https://www.safetyandhealthinmining.co.za.

NATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2022

The women in our lives and beyond contribute towards successful outcomes and the sun does not set without their love and contribution!

EXCELLENCE IN INTEGREATED REPORTING 2022

The DRDGOLD Annual Integrated Report 2021 was ranked in the Excellent category in this year’s awards and was among the top 20 companies. The EY Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards are used as basic standards for excellence in the quality of integrated reporting to investors and other stakeholders of listed South African companies.

WORLD TB DAY 2022

World TB Day is commemorated annually on 24 March to raise public awareness about the devastating consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end this global epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.

2021

Minerals Council South Africa and Vooma Vaccination Week [logos]

We need more people to get vaccinated so we are all protected

We call on all mineworkers to put some Vooma into vaccination and meet the challenge! By 6 October, 50% of all mining employees and contractors were partially vaccinated, Of those, 60% were fully vaccinated and 40% partially vaccinated.

Vaccination will protect you and those you love from COVID-19. Vaccination is thousands of times safer than catching Covid-19, and it protects you from getting very sick or dying if you do contract it.

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STRIVING FOR GENERATION EQUALITY

International Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise Day

27 June 2021

Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) account for over 90% of all businesses and around 70% of jobs worldwide. Today, on International SMME Day, we acknowledge both the responsibility bigger businesses such as ours have in supporting SMMEs through procurement of goods and services, and the vital role they play in developing economies such as South Africa’s. In such economies, it is estimated that up to 40% of total national income is generated by SMMEs.

We are proud to showcase on this international day of recognition, our relationship with just one such business. The Geluksdal Youth Forum, a small/medium-sized enterprise contracted by us since 2016 to help us vegetate our Brakpan tailings storage facility (TSF). The forum employs a total of 15 men and women whose job it is to grow, plant and manage indigenous trees along the TSF as part of our dust containment initiatives.

All 15 people employed in the enterprise – a manager, supervisor, co-ordinator, driver and 11 grower/planters – are drawn from Geluksdal, one of the “gate” communities of our Ergo operation in Ekurhuleni. During our association, the team has learned the skills and developed the experience needed to nuture the trees from seedlings to adulthood. Within their tree nursery environment, they also grow vegetables for their own use.

The Geluksdal Youth Forum tree-growing team, based at their nursery virtually “on the spot”, near the Brakpan tailings storage facility where the indigenous trees they grow help prevent dust pollution

RECOGNISING YOUTH DAY

16 June 2021

At DRDGOLD, we believe that youth empowerment begins with education, and is enhanced by opportunity. We aim to bring both to the young people in our communities.

Supplementary teaching

3 key subjects taught at 7 chosen schools
Funding educational journeys

R1.2 million spent to fully-fund 13 bursars in 2021
Growing skilled artisans

725 learnerships offered since inception

In 2021, 60 learners currently engaged

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DRDGOLD concurs, food safety is everyone’s business. We all have a moral obligation, of course, to help ensure that people do not go hungry. Also, what hope is there for any kind of human enterprise, for countries’ economies to survive – particularly in the face of COVID-19 – if stomachs are empty?

DRDGOLD, for some years now, has partnered with Umsizi Sustainable Social Solutions in the implementation of the Broad-Based Livelihoods (BBL) programme in DRDGOLD’s host communities.

The BBL programme currently reaches more than 4 000 people, one way or another, teaching them how to use their own yards and any other land legally available to them to grow food – in the first instance to feed themselves, and then to produce a surplus they can sell in their communities to generate an income.

A recent BBL development is the teaching of food preservation skills. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 600 million people fall ill and 420 000 die every year from eating contaminated food. Properly preserved food prevents illness and death, and – importantly – reduces food wastage.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2021, 5 June 2021

DRDGOLD CONNECTS WITH THE 2021 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY THEME OF REIMAGINE, RECREATE, RESTORE

For DRDGOLD, World Environment Day 2021 is an opportunity to reflect on what is being regained in our natural world, and to contemplate the essence of our company and its role in the mining sector. The World Environment Day 2021 theme of Reimagine Recreate Restore resonates so closely with our purpose that we are compelled to reflect on what we do and how we contribute to each of these ideals.

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