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100 years of Anglo American

1922 THE RAND REBELLION 1917 1917 DOORS O PEN
An armed uprising after W orld Entrepreneur
War I , w hen mining companies Ernest Oppenheimer
were faced w ith rising costs and a establishes
fall in the price o f g old Anglo A merican
1926 THE DIAMOND STORY
1928 PLATINUM SHINES BEGINS
A k ey partnership with the 1927 Anglo A merican becomes t he largest
discoverer o f S A’s single s hareholder in De Beers
PGM-bearing reef, H ans Consolidated Mines. Sir Ernest
Merensky. The company w ould
evolve into A nglo A merican became chairperson o f D e B eers i n
Platinum 1929
1938 NEW H Q
1944 GOLD RUSH 1937 The foundations of the
Vaal Reefs Exploration and company’s S outh
Mining Company i s f ormed and 1948 APARTHEID African headquarters at
has 11 shafts by the 1980s, The National Party c omes 44 Main Street in
making it the world’s b iggest to power u nder DF Malan Johannesburg a re laid
gold mine
Mid 1950s BUILDING A N EW
1960 69 DEAD 1950 SEGREGATION BY 1947 1961 FIRST GLOBAL MINING TOWN
The Sharpeville COLOUR MOVE The migration of people t o t he new
massacre t akes place The passing of the Immorality A ct An investment in the goldfield i n t he Orange F ree S tate
on March 21, and the and the Group Areas A ct Hudson Bay M ining and led t o t he establishment of a b rand
ANC and PAC a re Smelting Company i n new t own, Welkom
banned Canada marks A nglo 1961 NOBEL
American’s first PEACE PRIZE
1974 BEFORE 1964 RIVONIA TRIAL 1957 significant mining Albert L uthuli,
investment beyond
CSI Nelson Mandela a nd his southern Africa president of the
Anglo A merican codefendants w ere ANC, was t he first
Chairman’s sentenced to life i n p rison black African to be
Fund is after t he conclusion of awarded the Nobel
established the Rivonia Trial Peace P rize
1967 1975 SOUTH AFRICA I S A T
1976 SOWETO U PRISING 1985 WORKERS’ POWER THE FOREFRONT OF COAL
Led b y s tudents on June 16, Anglo A merican becomes t he In collaboration with others, Anglo
the protests changed the first major mining company i n American develops the Richards
sociopolitical landscape in SA SA to recognise black trade Bay C oal T erminal which becomes
unions the world’s largest dedicated coal
1990 A N EW ERA export terminal
BEGINS 1992 THE SOUTH AFRICAN GEM 1977 1985 STATE O F
Nelson Mandela i s r eleased Venetia Diamond Mine is established. EMERGENCY 1986 FIGHTING HIV AND
from prison and the ANC is It is SA’s largest d iamond producer AIDS
unbanned with an output of about 3 m illion This year signalled t he Together with the SA
beginning of the end
carats a y ear Chamber of Mines, Anglo
1994 FREEDOM FOR A LL of apartheid society American supports the
SA holds its fi rst d emocratic and governance country’s first HIV/Aids
elections on April 27 1987 testing campaign
1994 HISTORICAL DEAL 1989 JOB CREATION FOR A
Anglo A merican split Johannesburg SUSTAINABLE SOUTH AFRICA
Consolidated Investments ( JCI) to Anglo A merica c oordinates all i ts
sell Johnnic and JCI to the National enterprise-development initiatives
Empowerment Consortium and the into o ne organisation – Z imele
African Mining Group. A t t he time, i t
was t he biggest b lack empowerment 1997
deal in SA corporate h istory
1999 GLOBAL ANGLO A MERICAN
2002 PEOPLE ARE THE Anglo A merican SA and Minorco form
BUSINESS Anglo A merican plc, with its p rimary
In partnership with the department of listing in London on the FTSE 100 Index
health, Anglo A merican becomes t he
first major employer to provide free 2007 2017 THE MOST PRECIOUS
antiretroviral medicine to HIV ected RESOURCE
employees Anglo A merican’s FutureSmart™ mining
approach is working towards r ecycling
2008 A S AFER F UTURE almost all t he water a t i ts sites to become a
In partnership with government and mining net w ater contributor to surrounding
trade unions, Anglo A merican pioneers t he communities b y 2 025
Tripartite H ealth a nd Safety Initiative 2017
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