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MyPR: The CGISA Hosts Its Annual Integrated Reporting Awards In Partnership With The JSE:

The Chartered Governance Institute of South Africa celebrated yet another successful Integrated Reporting Awards ceremony on Wednesday 25th November. For over 20 years The Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa (CGISA) has partnered with the JSE in hosting the Integrated Reporting Awards. Considering the current situation, the Awards were held virtually.

The Awards aim to encourage transparent financial and non-financial reporting, to provide actionable insights into companies’ business performance, prospects, and impact on stakeholders. The awards welcomed key sponsors such as PwC; OnBoard; Diligent; Exxaro Resources; Computershare; Lumi and a number of other sponsors – Alchemycs; Joshero; Trialogue; HMSS; Sea Harvest; Nasdaq; Northam Platinum Ltd; Fidelity Services Group; The Lime Envelope; R & M Communications.

The Chartered Governance Institute of South Africa would like to thank its sponsors, judges and all those that entered the awards.

This year’s 2020 winners are:

Overall winner: Sasol Ltd
Category: Top 40 – Winner: Kumba Iron Ore Ltd
Category: Top 40 – Merit: Nedbank Group Ltd
Category: Mid Cap – Winner: Netcare Ltd
Category: Mid Cap – Merit: Pick n Pay Stores Ltd
Category: Small Cap – Joint winner: Sun International Ltd
Category: Small Cap – Joint winner: Royal Bafokeng Platinum Ltd
Category: Fledgling/AltX – Winner: Sea Harvest Group Ltd
Category: Fledgling/AltX – Merit: AfroCentric Investment Corporation Ltd
Category: State-owned Company – Winner: Airports Company South Africa SOC Ltd
Category: State-owned Company – Merit: Sasria SOC Ltd
Category: Public sector – Merit: Gautrain Management Agency
Category: Unlisted Company – Winner: Ubank Ltd
Category: Unlisted Company – Merit: Fidelity Services Group (Pty) Ltd
Category: NGO/NPO – Winner: Institute of Directors South Africa
Category: NGO/NPO – Merit: National Sea Rescue Institute
Category: Regional – Winner: National Social Security Fund of Uganda
Category: Regional – Merit: Eswatini Royal Insurance Corporation

 

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein. Other farms to become famous later included Langlaagte, Turffontein, Doornfontein and Braamfontein. George Harrison is today credited as the man who discovered an outcrop of the Main Reef of gold on the farm Langlaagte in February 1886. On 12 May 1886 Harrison and his partner, George Walker, entered into a prospecting agreement with the owner of Langlaagte, one G.C. Oosthuizen. Two days later Colonel Ignatius Ferreira staked out his camp on Turffontein to serve as a centre for diggers.

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Top Star Drive-In: Destroyed by What Created it

However, the very thing that created the Top Star eventually destroyed it. Because the early miners had used crude methods, the Ferreira Dump—and dozens of others like it—still contained significant traces of gold. As the price of gold rose and new chemical extraction technologies (like the carbon-in-pulp process) made it profitable to “mine the waste,” the ground beneath the Top Star became more valuable than the cinema itself. In 2006, despite fierce opposition from heritage groups who argued that the dump and the drive-in were culturally significant landmarks, the projectors were turned off for the last time.

The reclamation of the dump was a staggering industrial feat. Starting in 2008, mining giant DRDGold used high-pressure water cannons to “monitor” the dump, turning 5 million tons of solid earth back into a liquid slurry. This slurry was then piped 40 kilometers across the province to a processing plant in Brakpan. By 2011, the “mountain” had completely vanished. The 50-meter-high plateau that had dominated the southern skyline for a century was reduced to a flat, dusty crater.

The disappearance of the Top Star is a poignant symbol of Johannesburg’s “extractive” nature. It is a city that consumes itself to stay alive; even its historical landmarks are subject to the fluctuating price of minerals on the London and New York stock exchanges. Today, if you drive along the M2, there is an empty space in the sky where the Top Star used to be. While the reclamation removed a source of toxic dust and “acid mine drainage,” it also erased a piece of the city’s collective memory. The land where the gold-flecked mountain once stood is now being rehabilitated for light industrial use, proving that in eGoli, even the horizon is for sale if there’s enough gold hidden inside it.