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CONCESSIONAIRES
Our concessionaires are close partners with us in all our properties and
provide focused goods and services to our guests at the very highest
standards of excellence. Given the symbiotic relationship they have with
the group and the fact that their brands work closely alongside our brand,
they work with us on customer standards, service delivery and exceeding
customer expectations.
Many of our concessionaires have concessions throughout the group’s
properties and have become part of the customer experience and
expectation. The group’s B-BBEE scorecard is demonstrably affected
by their ability to deliver real empowerment and in this, many of our
concessionaires – both older and emerging – have been particularly
successful.
COMMUNITIES
Sun International is committed to good corporate citizenship, responsible
leadership and the responsible management of our obligations to and
impact on all sectors of society. Our aim is to have a positive impact on
society, while minimising environmental risks and making a sustainable
contribution to the economy and society.
In the year under review, our total corporate social investment spend was
R20 million.
Our projects are managed both centrally and by unit, with our properties
focusing on the immediate communities in the areas of their operations.
Contributions are focused on a number of projects within the areas of
Health and Welfare, Education and Community Development.
In Health and Welfare, projects such as Reach for a Dream, the Tapologo
AIDS Hospice and Emmanuel’s Haven receive substantial assistance from
Sun International and provide care for children in distress or in need.
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In Education, secondary schools, bursary funds and the Study Trust receive
financial aid from the company in areas from the Setotolwane Elsen
Secondary School in Limpopo to the GrandWest CSI Bursary Fund in the
Western Cape.
Within community development, programmes such as Blisters for Bread,
which is funded to the extent of R1.5 million and the Grootvaly Conservation
Project in Gauteng are helped in their social and environmental efforts. The
company is also one of the major sponsors of the South African paralympic
team which competed in Beijing this year and will compete in London in
2012. Sun International is also a founding member of the Arts and Culture
Trust which has supported more than 500 projects throughout the country.
In a judgement handed down in March 2010 the Land Claims Court
ordered that the land on which the Fish River Sun complex is located be
restored to the Mazizini community. An application has been lodged with
the Land Claims Court for leave to appeal the judgement to the Supreme
Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. The hearing date of the application still
has to be confirmed.
Other communities share in different ways. For example, as part of a
possible solution to the claim by the Mngungundlovu community for the
land where the Wild Coast Sun is situated, we are evaluating various
commercial exercises to enable us to put forward proposals to the
community and the government – as the owner of the land. As part of the
negotiations around the Wild Coast Sun’s new casino licence, the Wild
Coast Sun deposited R2 million into a trust account to be used by the land
claimants to secure professional advice to assist in the settlement of their
land claim.
Communities also share in our success through ownership of shares, such
as with GPI, which has many thousands of investors who placed their
faith in the company from the first day.
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