The BBL project has reached approximately 8 000 participants and equipped many with key mechanisms for local economic growth. It is a programme that is designed to alleviate poverty, generate an income and create jobs as part of DRDGOLD’s social and labour plan.

Over the past several months we have provided stakeholders with some insight into our plans to achieve a greater level of independence for our Ergo operation to the east of Johannesburg from South Africa’s troubled power utility, Eskom – without damaging our longstanding relationship with Eskom – by installing solar power infrastructure.

The Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) surface retreatment operation of DRDGOLD Limited, near Carletonville in South Africa’s Gauteng Province, is nearing completion.

DRDGOLD subsidiary Ergo Mining (Pty) Limited has begun reclamation – at a R3.8 million set-up cost – of the 2.7Mt 4L25 mine dump.

DRDGOLD Limited’s Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) operation south-west of Johannesburg is currently retreating material reclaimed from the Driefontein No.5 dam.