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Fatality at Foskor’s Richards Bay Premises - Acid division

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Death at Foskor premises at Richards Bay - Acid Division

28 November  2018

To whom it may concern

Re: Death on Foskor premises at Richards  Bay - Acid division

It is with great sadness to issue this media release for the death of one of our colleagues who was found dead on site.

The deceased employee was found lying on the floor at around 1 OH30 by a fellow employee who immediately activated our emergency services who promptly arrived at the scene and our occupational medical practitioner declared the employee dead.

We are following  our own internal processes  to have a formal investigation  on this unfortunate event and we will be notifying the family and the name of the employee  will be withheld until the family and the next of kin are notified. The Department of Labour and the South African Police Services have been notified and they have already started with their own investigations  and we will be providing all the necessary support until the investigation  is completed.

On behalf of the shareholders, the executive committee, senior management and the employees we would like to extend a message of condolence to the immediate and the extended family members of the deceased.

For further correspondence  on this media release, please do not hesitate to contact our Mr. Abby Ledwaba, Group Manager: Corporate Affairs on 015 789 2174 or 082 736 1526 or abbvl@foskor.co.za.

Kind regards​​

Mr. Ufikile Khumalo

PRESIDENT/CEO

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 FOSKOR 21 HALF MARATHON 2018

This year's 25^th F21 Half Marathon, which took place on Saturday, 28 July, saw Nedbank running club's Sibusiso Nzima-NEDBANK – 01: 06: 22 and Nedbank running club's female winner, Rutendo Nyahora - (ZIM) – 01: 18: 44 finishing the race with big smiles on their faces as they were crowned the F21 Half Marathon 2018 1^st Male and 1^st Female winners. The total number of entries through our records is 1 047 athletes.Ba-Phalabo​rwa community saw runners from all over the world filled with energy and excitement to finish the race and they came in numbers to support and cheer the runners. This unique, charity focused race started at 07H00 with the employees, community and contractors relay race, Thirty teams entered the race and only 28 teams participated, the relay race saw 7SAI battalion taking two prizes for 1^st and 2^nd positions, the 3^rd team was Springbok team and the last place winning the skilpad (tortoise) trophy is the team called the Skilpads.

The Springbok and Skilpad were teams from HR training (appy's and learners). the F5 which was launched in 2016 for primary schools from 6 to 15 years, saw eleven schools entries for the race competition and the winning school with most entries was Mabine Primary School with 721 entries and Relebogile High School with 96 entries. Each School received a Computer and a printer. The F10 development race started at 11H00 which caters for learners above 15 years and adults were seen running the 10KM and also walking.

The main race started at Foskor Community Centre at Namakgale (Phalaborwa) into two of the local villages, Majeje and Makhushane and the runners were excited with the friendly supporters along the route. The runners were hydrated at every 3 kilometre water point up to kilometre 18 and another water point was added at kilometre 19.5. The Makhushane traditional dancers and the Military band from Polokwane, entertained the community as people were waiting to see who might walk away with R 42 200 bonus for breaking the records which are still standing at 1:01:55 by Ezael Thlobo in 1997 and Elana Meyer 01:12:19 in 1999.

The event was hosted under the joint banner of the Phalaborwa Road Runners and Foskor Athletics clubs and all entry fees raised were shared between the two clubs with each club receiving a cheque of R20 000.00.

Below are the Foskor Half Marathon 2018 results:

During the live interview with Munghana Lonene FM, Mr. Abram Ledwaba has congratulated all athletes and issued a vote of thanks to our co-Sponsors Komatsu and LA Crushers, Foskor/Samreu Security. The Department of Roads & Transport Limpopo, SAPS, Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality, Barloworld, Toyota, suppliers, medical personnel, route marshals, helpers, local and provincial authorities, different companies that manned the water points, Limpopo Athletics (LIMA), our local media partners, Phalaborwa Herald and Phalaborwa FM, Capricorn FM, Thobela FM most specifically SABC radio sport, Munghana Lonene FM for maintaining their live coverage hours from the start of the event till the end. Phalaborwa Road Runners, and Foskor Athletics Club.

We are looking forward to hosting the 26^th annual F21 HALF MARATHON on 27 July 2019