## Highlights and challenges 2010 

## Sustainability: core to delivering on our growth drivers 

The new King III Code of Governance Principles in South Africa calls for integrated sustainability reporting. Underlying this call is the desire that companies should more clearly demonstrate how social, economic and environmental considerations impact on the company’s strategic growth drivers, as well as showing how these issues are being effectively integrated within the company’s core strategy and throughout its sphere of infl uence. 

We believe that our sustainability performance has a direct bearing on the achievement of our strategic growth objectives. At its most fundamental, growing our business is ultimately dependent upon the maintenance of a stable political environment, the ability to attract and retain the best and most appropriately skilled 

SD more detailed review of the integration between our sustainability performance and the achievement of our strategic growth objectives is provided in our separate sustainable development report. 

o Actions implemented to improve operating performance are delivering results. 

o  Successful execution of offshore projects supported earnings growth. 

o Strategically well-positioned to leverage opportunities for growth through continued enhancement of technology. 

employees, ensuring continued access to vital natural resources and feedstock (such as water, coal and gas), and maintaining positive relationships with our principal stakeholders, including governments, providers of capital, and the communities where we operate. 

Achieving each of these elements requires us to operate in an informed, responsive and socially responsible manner. 

In addition to the various drivers relating to value-protection – where the focus is primarily on risk management, compliance and operational efficiency – sustainable development also presents opportunities for value-creation. We believe, for example, that there are signifi cant commercial opportunities associated with meeting the profound challenges associated with 

o Balance sheet strength is supporting investment for growth and enhanced returns to shareholders. 

o  Improving our safety record remains our biggest challenge. 

promoting energy security on the one hand, while addressing climate change and resource depletion on the other. Sasol has a long history of technological innovation and of commercialising technologies at scale. 

We see strategic growth opportunities associated with building on these competencies, and in identifying options for differentiating from the current fossil fuel- based energy mix. It is for this reason that we have established Sasol New Energy, which has been tasked with identifying and realising the business opportunities associated with a low-carbon future economy. 

For Sasol, addressing sustainable development issues is as much an economic and business imperative as it is a moral imperative. 

 * The recordable case rate (RCR) is a standard international measure for reporting work-related injuries and illnesses and other safety incidents resulting in injury. The RCR is the number of fatalities, lost workday cases, restricted work cases, medical treatments beyond first-aid cases and accepted illnesses, for every 200 000 employee hours worked, reported on a 12-month moving average basis. 

