Community

Bannerman actively supports a range of social development and local business development initiatives in consultation with local communities in Namibia.

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.