Through its vision of powering better lives in Africa and beyond, Exxaro aspires to implement leading practices in ESD across the core functional areas. This initiative intends to promote economic transformation through developing entrepreneurs and suppliers and creating competitive markets for them to generate more jobs and establishing sustainable communities.

Exxaro is committed to creating opportunities for black-owned suppliers and black entrepreneurs to encourage economic growth in the country through our operations and other ventures. We will leverage our purchasing power as well as our internal and external capabilities to deliver sustained stakeholder value, which entails:

• Protecting and growing shareholder value by securing our licence to operate while being financially self-sustaining. This is achieved by bringing to market commercially viable enterprise support solutions as well as taking financial interests in high growth enterprises with capabilities needed to realise our business growth aspirations. Meeting and exceeding minimum standards placed by local, provincial and national government. This is achieved by aligning our programme objectives and deliverables to meet, as a minimum, the regulatory and statutory requirements of the territories we operate in.
• Reducing enterprise-wide supply chain risk by lowering internal user transaction costs and supply side risk associated with security of supply and delivery lead times. We achieve this by actively investing in diversifying the quantum and quality of vendors located close to our business operations.
• Supporting economic transformation by growing the number and size of black-owned businesses. We achieve this by directly and indirectly providing market access opportunities for black-owned businesses and by investing in non-financial and financial business support programmes.