Transnet

Transnet strives to be a good corporate citizen that contributes to development in communities across South Africa.

Transnet executes developmental initiatives through the Transnet Foundation, which is the corporate social investment (CSI) arm of the Company. Since 1994, the Foundation has supported several social initiatives through partnerships with various social sector role players.

The Company’s community development agenda aligns to national mandates espoused in the National Development Plan as well as in the Sustainable Development Goals. Transnet Foundation (Foundation) is committed to responding to the needs of communities in an effective and impactful way. The Foundation remains people-centred and focused on areas of health, education and livelihoods.

The Foundation's key objectives include:

Improving communities' access to quality healthcare to enable them to live full and productive lives

Enabling educators and learners at schools to improve academic outcomes which contributes to South African youth access to meaningful economic opportunity

Providing care and support for vulnerable communities and groups to prevent gender-based violence and strengthen community well-being

Enabling communities to achieve socio-economic transformation by providing them with capacity building to sustain whole community development and improve livelihoods

Harnessing the diverse and broad skills and experience of Transnet's workforce to develop communities through employee volunteerism initiatives