AngloGold AshantiManager: Sustainability
Feb. 2011 - Aug. 2017Johannesburg Area, South AfricaEnvironment and Community Manager, Greenfields Exploration The role had accountability for Environment, Community and Compliance within Global Greenfields Exploration. Thabani provided direct support to the SVP Global Greenfields Exploration to build and progress a high quality portfolio of Greenfields exploration projects by ensuring assess to priority targets through timely, strategic and effective engagement (Government and Community) and good environmental management. The role was accountable for, developing and overseeing the implementation of a Community and Environment strategy for Global Greenfields Exploration, ensuring high-level of environmental and social performance and providing assurance to AGA senior management that environmental and social risks are being adequately managed in all Greenfields jurisdictions. Sustainability Manager, Americas Region, Denver, Colorado During his time in the Americas Region, Thabani provided oversight and an advisory role in Environment, Community Affairs and Security for operations and projects in US, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. He was responsible for developing regional strategies to mitigate sustainability risks, meet social and environmental performance indicators, and ensure compliance to internal and external commitments and standards. Corporate Community Affairs Manager
Thabani was a Manager in the Government and Community Relations group within the Sustainability Department at AngloGold Ashanti's Corporate Headquarters in Johannesburg. His role focused on providing strategy, policy, standards and advisory inputs into aspects of Land Access and Resettlement (Diamante Resettlement and Gramalote Resettlement in Colombia), Artisanal and Small Scale Mining, Socio-economic development, Stakeholder Engagement, Cultural and Heritage Sites, Indigenous People's relations, and Human Rights, to ensure a high-level of social performance for AngloGold Ashanti's site and Greenfields Exploration projects.