SocioTech's work mobilised more than 4000 BBL participants in DRDGOLD's areas of operation, which has provided a foundation for the development of 41 further programmes by the Enterprises unit attached to Pretoria University. In Ekurhuleni, Soweto, and Merafong, it is hoped that families will benefit from additional ways to become economically active in the township economy – where they are, with what they have – even while jobs are so very scarce.

Surface gold recovery company DRDGold, which on Wednesday continued its uninterrupted 15-year run of dividend paying, highlighted its R100-milllion-plus half-year contribution to the fiscus in income tax as an important current underpin of social systems that are helping the country to avoid abject poverty.