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AFROCENTRIC GROUP
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GOVERNANCE
OUR SOCIAL IMPACT CONTINUED
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY AND
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY AND EMPLOYEE PROFILE
AfroCentric believes that a transformation contributes towards
a productive, innovative and sustainable business. It is therefore
important for us to foster a culture that understands and
embraces diversity. As such, Transformation has been and will
continue to be a strategic objective for the Group.
During our 2017 financial year, AfroCentric purchased a tool
to assist managers to reach their EE targets. The tool allows
managers to identify where they are under and over represented
in comparison to the economically active population (“EAP”)
statistics of South Africa. Our goal is to align our workforce as
closely as possible to the EAP, to ensure that we fairly represent
all race and gender groups within the business.
Our new tool, the Divisional and National Employment Equity
Forums, our EE Policy, the B-BBEE Steering Committee as well
as our Transformation strategy contribute towards creating an
enabling environment for the successful implementation of
Employment Equity within our business.
The table below illustrates the composition of the AfroCentric
workforce by race, gender and occupational level.
AFROCENTRIC
Total workforce profile (including employees with disabilities) as at 30 June 2017
Male
Female
Foreign
nationals
Total*
Occupational levels
A
C
I
W A
C
I
W Male Female
Top management
1
–
2
8
3
–
–
1
–
–
15
Senior management
8
2
5
20
7
1
1
17
1
–
62
Professionally qualified
and experienced
specialists and
mid-management
64
20
32
72 105
45
52 191
1
2
584
Skilled technical and
academically qualified
workers, junior
management,
supervisors, foremen,
and superintendents
416 245 101
81 1 101 724 179 424
2
3
3 276
Semi-skilled and
discretionary decision-
making
197
6
3
5 236
28
4
24
–
–
503
Unskilled and defined
decision-making
5
2
–
–
23
8
1
–
–
–
39
Grand total
691 275 143 186 1 475 806 237 657
4
5
4 479
At the end of our financial year, our workforce comprised 2 166 (48%) African employees, 1 081 (24%) coloured employees,
380 (8.5%) Indian employees and 843 (19%) white employees. The Group as a whole has a 71% female and 29%male composition.
The Group had a total of 0.1% foreign nationals. As at 30 June 2017, the Group had a total of 40% black representation and a 26%
representation at top management.
* The total workforce figure is SA only (excluding outside SA subsidiaries)