Community members are being recruited to vegetate Johannesburg’s gold mine dumps as part of a dust suppression, environmental protection and ‘green’ imperative, DRDGold CEO Niël Pretorius said on Wednesday. In presenting a stupendously successful set of half-year results that saw operating profit soar 604% to R719.6-million for the six months to December 31, he conceded that managing community relations was turning out to be complicated, but the company was persevering and was determined to add value and achieve an outcome. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)
