The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) published the revised broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) codes at end 2013 to come into effect in May 2015. In 2014, the Group conducted its fourth formal B-BBEE verification exercise using the current dti generic codes. The verification exercise was conducted by Empowerdex. The Company asked Empowerdex to also do the indicative verification based on the new dti codes and the indicative scores will be finalised in September 2014. The Group maintained its Level 2 B-BBEE status.
Four units managed to improve their score from Level 3 to Level 2, being Carousel, Carnival City, Morula and Wild Coast. The balance of the units maintained their Level 2 status. Sun City remained Level 3. All business units scored full points (15) on enterprise development.
B-BBEE Element |
Targets | Sun City | Carousel | Sibaya | Golden Valley | Flamingo | Boardwalk | GrandWest | Carnival City | Meropa | Windmill | Morula | Wild Coast | Table Bay | SI Group Consolidated |
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100 – Own | 20 | 21.05 | 21.05 | 21.60 | 19.80 | 19.40 | 19.50 | 20.20 | 17.20 | 19.00 | 21.00 | 21.20 | 18.80 | 19.31 | 21.76 | |
200 – MC | 10 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | |
300 – EE | 15 | 7.49 | 5.24 | 8.90 | 11.30 | 6.97 | 9.28 | 5.86 | 9.39 | 15.30 | 12.40 | 8.38 | 5.16 | 8.49 | 9.24 | |
400 – SD | 15 | 9.91 | 13.42 | 8.53 | 11.40 | 12.30 | 14.20 | 12.20 | 12.20 | 12.20 | 11.90 | 12.30 | 11.40 | 16.50 | 12.42 | |
500 – PP | 20 | 18.04 | 18.21 | 20.00 | 18.73 | 20.00 | 19.10 | 20.00 | 20.00 | 20.00 | 20.00 | 18.25 | 20.00 | 20.00 | 20.00 | |
600 – ED | 15 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 10.00 | 15.00 | |
700 – SED | 5 | 3.93 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 3.76 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 9.00 | 5.00 | |
Overall score | 100 | 83.02 | 85.52 | 86.60 | 89.40 | 86.70 | 90.70 | 85.10 | 89.20 | 94.60 | 91.40 | 87.60 | 85.80 | 86.03 | 91.02 | |
Rating level | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
* Scored against the Transformation Charter
The SIEST enables employees to share in the success of the Group, empowering our people and encouraging a spirit of ownership. All permanent full-time and permanent scheduled southern African employees with at least six months’ Group service are eligible. No directors, executives or senior managers, who already participate in Group share incentive schemes, are eligible to be beneficiaries of the SIEST.
The SIEST now has more than 8 000 employees as beneficiaries who benefit by way of income distributions. These distributions are made in equal shares, irrespective of seniority or length of service, to eligible employees at the date of distribution. Biannual dividend distributions are paid net of loan repayments. The estimated value of the SIEST shareholdings net of debt at 30 June 2014 is R753 million, or R89 540 per employee.
Total distribution | Dividend per participant | ||
October 2013 | 15 677 826 | 1 893 | |
April 2014 | 9 942 984 | 1 182 | |
Total for the 2014 financial year | 25 620 810 | 3 075 | |
October 2012 | 14 401 414 | 1 773 | |
April 2013 | 14 797 280 | 1 840 | |
Total for the 2013 financial year | 29 198 694 | 3 613 | |
October 2011 | 12 093 325 | 1 495 | |
April 2012 | 11 796 223 | 1 453 | |
Total for the 2012 financial year | 23 889 548 | 2 948 | |
Total since inception | 244 425 716 | 32 251 |
The SIBEMT was established as part of the Group’s commitment to the economic empowerment of black people and to retain and attract black executive management. The SIBEMT has an effective 0.4% interest in Sun International through Dinokana, in which it has a 6% interest.
As at 30 June 2014, Dinokana owned 6 719 759 ordinary shares in Sun International – a 6.5% interest. The Dinokana lock-in expires in December 2014. In terms of Dinokana’s funding arrangement, it is required to maintain a minimum share cover ratio of 1.4.
BEE shareholding in the Group and its subsidiaries:
COMPANY | EMPOWERMENT PARTNER | % HOLDING |
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Sun International Limited* |
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Sun International Employee Share Trust | 8.9 | |||
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Trust formed for the benefit of Sun International’s senior black managers | 0.7 | ||||
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Broad-based North West province BEE grouping led by Lereko Investments |
5.5 | ||||
SUBSIDIARIES | ||||||
SunWest |
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Broad-based Western Cape empowerment grouping | 25.1 | |||
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3.3 | |||||
Afrisun Gauteng |
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Trust formed for the benefit of the local community | 5.4 | |||
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3.5 | |||||
Afrisun KZN |
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Broad-based KwaZulu-Natal BEE grouping | 22.4 | |||
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Trust formed for the benefit of the local community | 9.3 | ||||
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3.5 | |||||
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0.6 | |||||
Emfuleni |
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Broad-based Eastern Cape empowerment grouping | 20.3 | |||
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Trust formed for the benefit of Eastern Cape based BEE | 15.0 | ||||
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3.5 | |||||
Meropa |
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Polokwane-based BEE grouping | 29.0 | |||
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3.5 | |||||
Teemane |
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Northern Cape-based BEE grouping | 21.4 | |||
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3.5 | |||||
Mangaung |
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Free State based BEE grouping | 15.4 | |||
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Trust formed for the benefit of the communities in the Thaba’Nchu and Botshabelo areas effected after transfer of the Thaba’Nchu casino licence to Bloemfontein | 11.1 | ||||
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3.5 | |||||
Transkei |
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Trust formed for the benefit of the Mbizana community | 30.0 | |||
Worcester |
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25.1 | ||||
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3.5 |
* The empowerment shareholding in Sun International has been calculated in terms of the B-BBEE codes including mandated investments. The Group’s effective BEE shareholding in terms of the B-BBEE codes is approximately 33%.
Although employment equity (EE) is included in the dti B-BBEE codes, the Company is also required to comply with the standalone Employment Equity Act. As per the Act, the Company is required to submit an EE plan with EE targets to the Department of Labour (DoL). Our current plan expired at the end of July 2014 and we are required to submit another plan for the next three years. As a result of the section 189A restructure of our workforce, the Company engaged with the DoL and has now submitted a one-year plan for 2014/15 year. After the completion of the restructure, a three-year plan will be submitted. This makes it difficult to set realistic targets as it is unclear what the racial demographic split of the workforce will look like after the section 189A process is completed.
The Group views employment equity as a critical component of business strategy, being integral to both employee relations and talent management initiatives.
Racial demographic profile of our workforce:
Male | Female | Foreign Nationals |
Grand Total |
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Occupational level | A | C | I | W | A | C | I | W | M | F | |||
1 Top management | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 17 | ||
2 Senior managment | 7 | 4 | 14 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 8 | – | 94 | ||
3 Professionally qualified and experienced specialists and mid-management | 27 | 10 | 14 | 81 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 42 | 18 | 7 | 238 | ||
4 Skilled technical and academically qualified workers, junior managment, supervisors, foremen and superintendents | 550 | 155 | 98 | 227 | 431 | 118 | 55 | 161 | 35 | 23 | 1 853 | ||
5 Semi-skilled and discretionary decision making | 1 361 | 264 | 80 | 75 | 1 849 | 345 | 86 | 119 | 14 | 15 | 4 208 | ||
6 Unskilled and defined decision making | 157 | 24 | – | 1 | 185 | 19 | – | – | 7 | 2 | 395 | ||
Permanent total | 2 103 | 458 | 208 | 419 | 2 497 | 493 | 161 | 335 | 84 | 47 | 6 805 | ||
Temporary employees | 96 | 19 | 2 | 23 | 142 | 29 | 7 | 31 | 7 | 3 | 359 | ||
Grand total | 2 199 | 477 | 210 | 442 | 2 639 | 522 | 168 | 366 | 91 | 50 | 7 164 |
For the fourth consecutive year the skills development score exceeded the set target, with a verified score of 12.42 points against a set target of 12.00.
Skills development score:
Skills development indicator | TARGET LEVEL |
TARGET SCORE |
VERIFIED LEVEL |
VERIFIED SCORE |
Spend on black staff as a % of leviable amount | 3.00% | 6.00 | 3.09% | 6.00 |
Spend on disabled staff as a % of leviable amount | 0.00% | 0.00 | 0.04% | 0.42 |
Category B–D programmes for black staff | ||||
as a% of total staff | 5.00% | 6.00 | 5.28% | 6.00 |
Total score | 12.00 | 12.42 |
The amended codes of good practice increase the skills development expenditure target from the current 3% to 6% of leviable payroll on spend on training black people. The target score on category B-D programmes (learnerships and experiential work-based programmes) has also increased from the present 6 points to 13 points, inclusive of 5 bonus points for the absorption of black unemployed learners.
One of our key initiatives is to identify suitable jobs that can reasonably accommodate disabled individuals and roll out disabled learnerships across the Group. This will also enable the Group to meet our employment equity objectives as submitted to dti.
The Group continues to show a year-on-year improvement, demonstrating our commitment to driving preferential procurement.
As a leading empowered hospitality group, we are embracing the challenges presented by the new B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice, and will be coordinating our efforts to conform to the requirements.
As a Group, we need to focus on driving viable procurement strategies that will assist us in reaching the stringent new targets and in harvesting business relationships with entities that support the growth and development of the South African economy.
As discussed above, we are preparing for the introduction of an enterprise and supplier development pillar of the draft revised Codes of Good Practice. To this end, we are in the process of formalising the enterprise development component of our B-BBEE strategy.
In addition to this, our corporate website provides an opportunity for potential enterprise development beneficiaries to present their proposals to Sun International.
Sun International will move away from only emphasising early settlement towards meaningful enterprise development projects. To this end, we will conduct a review of our supply chain at each property to identify opportunities.