Community

Bannerman strives to build enduring and mutually beneficial relationships with our neighbouring communities

Bannerman has a Social Policy which seeks to ensure that the Company builds enduring and mutually beneficial relationships with it's neighbouring communities. Bannerman's approach is to treat people with decency and respect, to provide a healthy and safe workplace where its personnel can develop fully, to build relationships with with its stakeholders, to communicate regularily and to align its social responsibility activities with community priorities.

The success of Bannerman's engagement with its host community in Namibia was highlighted in its Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, where the independant environmental consultant concluded that "Bannerman has shown itself to be an open, transparent company which strives to involve, inform, listen and incorporate stakeholders' views during the mine design and ESIA/ESMP process".

Bannerman has invested in Namibia since 2005 and in this time has contributed substantially to the communities in which it operates.

Bannerman:

• is committed to identifying talented Namibian candidates and employees, developing their skills and in due course appointing them to appropriate leadership positions;

• has a bursary program which includes the sponsoring of two employees for post graduate studies in geology as well as a previously disadvantaged woman from Swakopmund studying in her fifth year to become a medical doctor;

• has adopted a procurement policy which gives preference to Namibian businesses, with in excess of 80 percent of procurement sourced in Namibia;

• has played a meaningful role in establishing, mentoring, funding and growing businesses in the Erongo region of Namibia, including:
  • facilitating the establishment of Elga Environmental CC, a local rehabilitation service provider;
  • contributing significantly to the growth of Metzger Drilling,  a local drilling contracting company; and
  • investing in equipment, fixtures and fittings and a sample preparation laboratory established in Swakopmund.

 Bannerman Resources Social Policy - Click Here