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Collective Action
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AimWe recognise that a multi-stakeholder approach is key to water security and we are building closer ties with local, national and international civil society organisations and governments.Our actionsThe water imbalance in the Vaal River catchment area has led the South African national Department of Water Affairs to set a 15% water-savings target for local municipalities, to be achieved by 2015. Sasol has concluded three multi-stakeholder municipal partnership agreements to help the municipalities’ in this catchment area reduce physical water losses – which can be as high as 45...
Community Engagement
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AimWe support and actively engage with communities to address water sustainability issues.Our actionsThe challenge is to create a culture in which water is valued and viewed as a precious natural resource. To help meet this challenge, Sasol has partnered with various municipalities, the Department of Water Affairs, the Department of Basic Education and Rand Water, to share the water message.One example is Project Busa Mesi, which seeks to minimise water losses in schools in the Metsimaholo municipal area near Sasolburg through water education and repairing leaking infrastructure and...
Public Policy
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AimWe contribute to the formation of government policy and regulations and to exercise “business statesmanship” as advocates for water sustainability.Our actionsWe participate in a number of government-led initiatives, including the South African Department of Water Affairs’ Water Sector Leadership Group (WSLG) and catchment-specific initiatives such as the Vaal River Strategy Steering Committee. Sasol also provides input to the South African National Water Resource Strategy. At an international level, we are involved in drafting the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water...
Transparency
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AimWe transparently disclose and report on water issues, guided by the indicators established by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).Our actions include the following:We disclose water usage and other water-related issues in terms of the GRI indicators in our annual Sustainable Development Report.We participate in the annual water disclosure questionnaire of the Carbon Disclosure Project.We publish an annual communication of progress on water matters to the CEO Water Mandate.We publish discussion pieces on Sasol’s water challenges, water technology efforts and on the...
Human rights
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We believe that we have the opportunity to make a positive contribution towards a wide range of human rights goals, whilst at the same time having a responsibility to mitigate the human rights related risks our activities may pose to others.
Meeting our human rights commitments
Our policy on respecting human rights is incorporated in our Code of Conduct and is guided by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the International Bill of Human Rights, the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the...
Communities
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Our community affairs programme seeks to promote people-centred, needs-driven sustainable development of communities.During 2012, the Sasol group committed R345,9 million to socioeconomic development globally, with most of this (R332,3 million) invested in South Africa, our principal host country.Our key priorities are determined by regulatory, business and community needs and are focused on the following five areas:Education with the emphasis on improving school-based education in science, technology and literacy; facilitating access to higher education; enabling quality higher education;...
Ethics at Sasol
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Our Sasol Values were specifically written to reflect ownership (notice the "we" statements) as well as actionability (notice the verbs in each statement). This helps us approach our values in a very practical manner. To further ensure that there is a common understanding of our values and what they imply, the values descriptors offer a generic starting point. The descriptors are not intended to be rules, as such, but rather to guide individuals and teams in conversations about how to make the values real and so they can be lived on a daily basis. How values are...
Sasol Governance of Ethics
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AccountabilityThe Sasol Limited Board of Directors is ultimately accountable for ethical business conduct in Sasol and to oversee ethical behaviour in accordance with the Sasol Code of Ethics. The Board has mandated the Nominations, Governance, Social and Ethics Committee (NGSE) of the Board to ensure that Sasol has effective ethics policies, structures and programmes to institutionalise and monitor ethics in the company. The NGSE oversees, directs (with regards to ethics best practices, implementation programmes etc.) and monitors ethics in Sasol for and on behalf of the Board....
Sasol Ethics Programme
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Sasol’s strategic goal with ethics is to achieve business success on the earned foundation and reputation of Sasol as an ethical enterprise.Sasol’s ethics strategy is principles based and anchored in the company’s shared values, especially the value of integrity. Ethics is applied sensibly based on sound reasoning.The Sasol ethics programme has two main focus areas:proactive – advancing and promoting an ethical Sasol culture group widereactive – ensuring that all reports of potential transgressions are appropriately received, investigated and resolved.The success and longevity of the...
Ethics speaking out
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The Sasol EthicsLine is a confidential and independent system which allows any person to report suspected transgression of the Code of Conduct. The Sasol EthicsLine is operated independently and externally to Sasol by Tip-Offs Anonymous, a division of Deloitte. Although the EthicsLine allows for anonymous reporting (unless in a country which prohibits anonymous disclosures) the company encourages people to at least provide their details to the EthicsLine as it assists with the investigation process.
Sasol EthicsLine numbers
South Africa
0800 016 017...
Make a tip-off
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Welcome to the web version of the Sasol EthicsLine. We appreciate your effort to advance ethics in Sasol.You will be redirected below to the website where you can report a suspected ethical transgression. This is an independent website that is externally managed by Tip-offs Anonymous (TOA), a division of Deloitte.Before providing TOA with information, please take note of the following important message:Anybody is welcome to contact the EthicsLine about unethical conduct in Sasol. The EthicsLine is a confidential system to report suspected transgressions to the Sasol Code of Conduct. People...
Tip-Off considerations
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1. Are you making the report in good faith and with honest intentions?Making a report of suspected ethical transgressions requires much responsibility from the reporter and it should only be made honestly and after due consideration.Please make sure that you are informed about the Sasol whistle-blower policy. You can find this in the Guide to the Application of Sasol’s Code of Conduct.2. Only ethical transgressions are to be reported to the Sasol EthicsLine.Are you sure that what you want to report represents unethical behaviour and does it represent a...

