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Corporate Governance TECHNICAL & OPERATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT Committee activities during 2016 Key matter considered Projects review Committee actions • Key project decisions for the Committee’s resolution. • Contract arrangements and review. • Business case for remodeling, reconstruction or renovation. • Lease arrangement and agreements. • Business registration status. • Status of mining license arrangements. • Limestone exploration reports. Health, safety and environmental (HSE) matters. HSE reports were monitored and compared for all plants within the Group including those of pan-African operations. The activities of the Committee in this regard included the following: • Establishment of safety performance indicators for the plants. • Review of incident reports, including details of causes, intervention activities, impact on production and remedial actions. • Review of incident frequency reports and impact on operations. • Received information on safety initiatives during the period, including summary on safety inductions/ training, safety committee meetings, HSE department activities. • Safety performance report for operating plants. • Instructed management to adopt the following going forward: - Improve reporting protocols of fatal accidents; - - Benchmark HSE reports with industry. - Compare HSE reports across the Group. • Agreed HSE improvement actions: - Engagement of a HSE Director to enforce the Company’s policy of 0% rate of accidents at the plants and increase safety measures; - Launch and implementation of a 10-point Safety Improvement Plan at all plants. - Installation of more sophisticated and technologically advanced equipment. - Enhancement of security measures and enforcement of standard operating procedures. - Intensified safety trainings and workshops and increased safety awareness through simulations, drills, dialogues, signals and signboards. • Review and approval of safety manual. Focus for 2017 As the Company does not plan to open new plants in 2017 the Committee’s main role will be to ensure the following: • Operational efficiencies and plant optimisation initiatives are implemented across operations to achieve cost savings • Production targets across the Group are met • Health, Safety and Environment policies are enforced and monitored across the Group • Sustainability strategy and policies are implemented and monitored across the Group • Plans for new plants are fully considered Include historical data in health, safety and Environment reports. Fidelis Madavo Chairman of the Technical and Operations Committee 27th February, 2017 Annual Report 2016 117

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