Our performance
Governance review
Other
We’ve extended 3G coverage to
99.2%
and 4G coverage to
75.8%
of South Africans.
In our International operations we added:
284 4G sites 888 3G sites 536 2G sites
M-Pesa with
12.9 million customers and
M-Pawa with
1.2 million customers are providing money transfer, savings and credit services to people outside the financial system.
To drive affordability, our blended average effective price per minute reduced
14.3%
and our average effective price per MB reduced
16.0% 
in South Africa and
Since listing on the JSE, we’ve delivered a total shareholder return of
307.4% 
Source: Factset
We paid a total of R14.5 billion to equity shareholders and debt funders in 2017, with R11.7 billion paid in dividends and R2.8 billion paid in interest.
We spent
R277 million
on skills development and enrolled
128 
graduates in our graduate programme across the Group.
We are serious about diversity in South Africa
73% of our employees are black, and 47% are women. 58% of our Executive Committee members are black.
We contributed
R16.1 billion 
total cash contribution to public finances.
Level 4
Black Economic Empowerment contributor status in South Africa.
In procuring goods and services R24 billion weighted spend on BEE-status suppliers and R5.7 billion to >30% black woman-owned suppliers in South Africa.
We spent
R114 million
on corporate social investment across the Group.
We launched the Siyakha platform to promote
digital inclusion offering zero-rated content on
specific education, health and employment websites,
as well as a free, text-based version of Facebook.
