Independent Auditor's Reasonable Assurance Report on Selected Key Performance Indicators
To the Directors of Exxaro Resources Limited
We have undertaken a reasonable assurance engagement on selected key performance indicators (KPIs), as described below, and presented in the Environmental, social and governance (ESG) report of Exxaro Resources Limited (Exxaro) for the year ended 31 December 2024 (the Report). This engagement was conducted by a multidisciplinary team including health, safety, social, environmental and assurance specialists with relevant experience in sustainability reporting.
We have been engaged to provide a reasonable assurance opinion in our report on the following selected KPIs, marked with an "RA" on the relevant pages in the Report. The selected KPIs described below have been prepared in accordance with Exxaro's reporting criteria that accompanies the sustainability information and set out in "Appendix A: Criteria" (the accompanying Exxaro reporting criteria).
| Category | Selected KPIs | Unit | ESG report pages | Scope of coverage |
| Safety | Fatalities | Number | Delivering meaningful and positive impact; Our social impact; Prioritising safety |
Exxaro Group |
| Safety | Lost-time injuries (LTIs) | Number | Delivering meaningful and positive impact; Prioritising safety |
Exxaro Group |
| Safety | Lost-time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) | Rate | Delivering meaningful and positive impact; Stakeholder-inclusive approach; Our social impact; Prioritising safety |
Exxaro Group |
| Occupational health | The occupational health incident frequency rate (OHIFR) | Rate | Delivering meaningful and positive impact; Our social impact; Promoting health and wellness |
Exxaro Group |
| Occupational health | Occupational health diseases | Number | Delivering meaningful and positive impact; Promoting health and wellness |
Exxaro Group |
| Social | Talent bench for band E | Percentage | Exxaro Group | |
| Social | Talent bench for band D | Percentage | Exxaro Group | |
| Social | Skills provision (percentage of appointment of employees within) | Percentage | Exxaro Group | |
| Social | Scarcity skills retention (percentage turnover) | Percentage | Exxaro Group | |
| Environmental management | Scope 1 Emissions | ktCO2e | Prioritising climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience |
Exxaro Group |
| Environmental management | Scope 2 Emissions | ktCO2e | Prioritising climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience |
Exxaro Group |
| Environmental management | Total Carbon intensity | tCO2e/total kilotonnes mined (kTTM) | Prioritising climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience |
Exxaro Group |
| Water | Water intensity | Water withdrawn/RoM tonnes | Delivering meaningful and positive impact; Improving water security |
Exxaro Group |
| Environmental compliance | Reportable environmental incidents (level 2 and 3) | Number | Exxaro Group | |
| Stoppage | Stoppage directives (includes section 54 in terms of MHSA | Number | Exxaro Group | |
| Stoppage | Stoppage directives (includes directives in terms of NWA, NEMA and MPRDA | Number | Exxaro Group |
The Directors are responsible for the selection, preparation and presentation of the selected KPIs in accordance with the accompanying Exxaro reporting criteria. This responsibility includes the identification of stakeholders and stakeholder requirements, material issues, commitments with respect to sustainability performance and design, implementation and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation of the Report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. The Directors are also responsible for determining the appropriateness of the measurement and reporting criteria in view of the intended users of the selected KPIs and for ensuring that those criteria are publicly available to the Report users.
Carbon emissions quantification is subject to inherent uncertainty because of incomplete scientific knowledge used to determine emission factors and the values needed to combine emissions of different gases.
We have complied with the independence and other ethical requirements of the Code of Professional Conduct for Registered Auditors issued by the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA Code), which is founded on fundamental principles of integrity, objectivity, professional competence and due care, confidentiality and professional behaviour. The IRBA Code is consistent with the corresponding sections of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants' International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (including International Independence Standards).
KPMG Inc. applies the International Standard on Quality Management 1, which requires the firm to design, implement and operate a system of quality management including policies or procedures regarding compliance with ethical requirements, professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Our responsibility is to express a reasonable assurance opinion on the selected KPIs based on the procedures we have performed and the evidence we have obtained. We conducted our assurance engagement in accordance with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 (Revised), Assurance Engagements other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information, issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. That Standard requires that we plan and perform our engagement to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the selected KPIs are free from material misstatement.
A reasonable assurance engagement in accordance with ISAE 3000 (Revised) involves performing procedures to obtain evidence about the measurement of the selected KPIs and related disclosures in the Report. The nature, timing and extent of procedures selected depend on the auditor's professional judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the selected KPIs, whether due to fraud or error.
In making those risk assessments we have considered internal control relevant to Exxaro Resources Limited's preparation of the selected KPIs. A reasonable assurance engagement also includes:
We believe that the evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In our opinion and subject to the inherent limitations outlined elsewhere in this report, the selected KPIs as set out in the Subject Matter paragraph above for the year ended 31 December 2024 are prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the accompanying Exxaro reporting criteria.
The maintenance and integrity of Exxaro's website is the responsibility of Exxaro's management. Our procedures did not involve consideration of these matters and, accordingly, we accept no responsibility for any changes to either the information in the Report or our independent reasonable assurance report that may have occurred since the initial date of its presentation on Exxaro's website. Our report includes the provision of reasonable assurance on Scope 1 carbon footprint and Scope 2 carbon footprint. We were previously not required to provide assurance on these selected KPIs, but rather reasonable assurance on Scope 1 carbon intensity and Scope 2 carbon intensity.
Our work has been undertaken to enable us to express a reasonable assurance opinion on the selected KPIs to the Directors of Exxaro in accordance with the terms of our engagement, and for no other purpose. We do not accept or assume liability to any party other than Exxaro, for our work, for this report, or for the conclusion we have reached.
Registered Auditor
Per Safeera Loonat
Chartered Accountant (SA)
Registered Auditor
Director
15 April 2025
KPMG Crescent
85 Empire Road, Parktown
Johannesburg
2193
IR