The Foschini Group’s 2010 Annual Report was amongst the first efforts in South Africa to produce an Integrated Report along the lines anticipated in the King III Discussion Paper on Integrated Reporting. The Annual Report includes a considered review of the implications of societal issues for the company’s core value drivers, outlines the efforts being taken to provide for sustainability issues in the Group’s overall strategy, and integrates its review of its sustainability performance on material issues within its general performance review. (Download PDF, 8.54Mb)

Distinguishing features of Sasol’s 2009 Sustainable Development Report include: the nature of the associated stakeholder engagement process, which included a robust dialogue between members of Sasol’s executive team and some critical external thought leaders; the report’s explicit focus on Sasol’s most material sustainability issues; and a frank benchmark of Sasol’s safety and climate change performance against comparable leading international companies. The UN Global Compact included Sasol on its list of “Notable Communications on Progress” for its reporting on implementation of the UN Global Compact principles. (Download PDF, 3.66Mb)

Pick n Pay’s 2009 Sustainable Development report is integrated within their Annual Report, and provides a succinct review of their sustainability performance on material issues. The summary review includes quantitative comparable data on all of their sustainable development key performance indicators, as well as qualitative commentary on their performance milestones for each of their publicly stated sustainability commitments.  (Download PDF, 637Kb)

Although a non-listed company Engen has reported regularly on its financial and sustainability performance. This report provides a succinct overview of Engen’s economic, social and environmental performance during the three financial reporting years 2007, 2008 and 2009. The review highlights some of their key activities, reviews their performance on priority issues, and identifies areas for further improvement. (Download PDF, 6.55MB)

This Incite report presents a sustainability reporting framework for the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), based on a benchmark review of best practice in sustainability reporting in development finance institutions. (Download PDF, 6Mb)

Incite helped the Western Cape Government in producing their first sustainability report, one of the few examples globally of annual sustainability reporting by a provincial government. The report reviews the sustainability performance of the Provincial Government, both in terms of carrying out its core policy and legislative functions, as well as in the nature of its internal organisational activities. The report also provides a broad perspective on the environmental and social status of the Western Cape as a geographic and economic region, as evaluated in terms of its Ecological Footprint and the United Nations Human Development Index. (Download PDF, 3.76 Mb)

Incite assisted Bidvest over three consecutive years with some of their first sustainability reports. As a decentralised, multi-faceted and geographically diverse business, it is a challenge to provide a concise yet sufficiently comprehensive report. To meet this challenge their 2007 report is structured so that the introductory chapters provide an overview of sustainability issues at Group level, while the divisional reviews give more detailed information. The reviews focus on those business units and the risks and opportunities that are deemed to be most material. (Download PDF, 1.41MB)

Sasol’s 2006 report won various accolades, including: Overall Winner Best Sustainability Report (ACCA reporting awards); Best Sustainability Report in the extractive industries sector (ACCA); and winner of the Ernst & Young Excellence in Sustainability reporting annual award. Sasol was listed as the sole African company under the “Rest of the World Top 100″ sustainability reports by Context’s and CorporateRegister.com’s seventh annual report on corporate responsibility reporting. (Download PDF, 5.77Mb)

Members of Incite’s founding team assisted MTN with their pioneering 2003 and 2004 sustainability reports. These were MTN’s first sustainability reports and amongst the first in the sector globally. The 2004 report includes a review of MTN’s sustainability performance at group level, as well as a summary of the performance of their individual operations in Cameroon, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland and Uganda. A distinguishing feature of MTN’s reporting process was the accompanying comprehensive stakeholder engagement processes in each of these countries. MTN’s 2004 report was included in the top 100 global reports listed in the UNEP/Sustainability report “Tomorrow’s Value.”  (Download PDF, 1.85Mb)