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Governance
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Social and ethics committee
Members
Attendance
Koosum Kalyan (chairman)
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Peter Mageza
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Dawn Marole
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Jeff van Rooyen
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By invitation: Group president and CEO, group chief human resources officer, group business risk officer
Key activities in 2017
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Oversaw the implementation of the ethics management programme, including the revision of key ethics
structures and policies and a new supplier code of conduct as well as carrying out ethics training
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Considered a revised stakeholder, issues and reputation management approach
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Took responsibility for the sustainability framework and sustainability reporting
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Identified two significant sustainability projects, including a solar energy flagship project, to implement
in 2018
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Reviewed the activities of the MTN foundations and other CSI initiatives as we prepare to introduce a
more integrated approach
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Oversaw progress by South African businesses under the amended BEE ICT sector code, which has
significantly higher recognition levels.
Mandate
The committee performs an oversight and monitoring role to ensure that MTN’s business is conducted
in an ethical and properly governed manner. It also monitors the development or review of policies,
governance structures and existing practices. The committee’s responsibilities include:
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Holding the group president and CEO accountable for MTN’s ethics performance
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Monitoring activities regarding legislation and codes of good practice
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Ensuring good corporate citizenship including promoting equality; preventing unfair discrimination and
fraud, bribery and corruption; deterring human rights violations; and contributing to community
development
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Ensuring sound consumer relations monitoring the impact of MTN’s activities and that of its products
and services
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Overseeing meaningful broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) in MTN South Africa.
Key focus areas for 2018
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Continue to evolve MTN’s CSI approach in pursuit of shared value by making better use of MTN’s
institutional capabilities, and ensure that this work is integrated into initiatives to deliver on BRIGHT
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Oversee MTN’s work to bring households solar energy boxes with connectivity functionality
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Oversee the implementation of a more structured and inclusive approach to stakeholder management,
which is in line with the principles of King IV and monitors the health of our relationships
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Oversee MTN South Africa’s efforts to develop an enterprise and supplier development policy to
transform the supply chain by introducing 51% black-owned entities, 30% black-women-owned entities
as well as exempt micro enterprises and qualifying small enterprises
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Ensure the primacy of ethics at MTN: business must be done in an ethical, safe and responsible way.
“The committee assists the board and management in ensuring that the group’s
reputation is based on a solid ethical foundation and that it is a responsible and
ethical corporate citizen. This contributes to enabling a sustainable business that
delivers inclusive growth. In the year, the committee continued to monitor the
progress of the implementation of MTN’s ethics management programme and
on ensuring that the CEOs of all our operations took responsibility for ethics
management. Management and employees understand just how essential it is
that everyone takes personal ownership of ethics management.
We started to evolve our approach to long-term sustainability and corporate social
responsibility and social investment to ensure that the company creates shared
value for shareholders and communities. We will do this by making better use of
MTN’s institutional capabilities.
In terms of BEE requirements, we will continue to drive transformation of
MTN South Africa’s supply chain by introducing more black-owned as well as black-women-owned suppliers.”
More information on the work of the social and ethics committee is set out in the social and ethics committee
report on our website.
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Koosum Kalyan
Chairman
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MTN Group Limited
Integrated Report 2017