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Rand Water
Chief Executive: Percy Sechemane
Chief Operating Officer MacDonald Mkhize
Group Strategy Manager Zvinaiye Manyere
Chief Financial Officer Gift Chikwakwa
Group Shared Services Executive Fawcett Ngoatje
Group Governance Executive Fikile Sithole
General Manager Strategic Human Capital Sello Tsheole
Company Secretary Sandile Dlamini
Physical Address 522 Impala Road, Off Klipriver Road, Glenvista 2058
Postal Address PO Box 1127. Johannesburg 2000
Tel (+27 11) 682 0911
Fax (+27 11) 682 0444/0555
Email customerservice@randwater.co.za
Website www.randwater.co.za
 
 
For over 100 years, Rand Water has been supplying quality potable water to Gauteng and surrounding areas. Its success is based on sharing in the pioneering spirit that has led to Johannesburg’s growth. The same spirit has driven the company’s growth in terms of infrastructure and quality significantly increasing its area of supply. Rand Water is the largest bulk water utility in Africa and is one of the largest in the world, providing bulk potable water to more than 11 million people in Gauteng, parts of Mpumalanga, Free State and the North West provinces - an area that stretches over 18 000km2. Rand Water’s distribution network includes over 3 000 kilometres of large diameter pipeline, feeding 53 strategically located service reservoirs.
Its customers include metropolitan municipalities, mines and industries and we supply, on average, 3 550 million litres of water to these customers daily. Rand Water as an organ of state reports to the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. Throughout the company’s long history, it has remained financially self-sustaining and its financials have been affirmed by Standard & Poor’s rating of Rand Water’s long-term local currency, corporate credit rating as A+ and its long-term foreign currency corporate credit rating as BBB+.
 
(1). Has a reputation for supplying water that ranks alongside the best quality drinking water in the world (2). Stringent guidelines are set for the quality of our water through all stages of the purification process (3). International Star Award in the Gold category by Business Initiative Directions (BID) for Innovation and Technology (4). Award from Top 500 Companies for the Best Performing Organisation in the Water Sector (5). Placed third in the Top Public Sector Transformation Award
 
 

STATISTICS / DEMOGRAPHICS / HISTORY
Year founded: 1903
Employees: 3 000
Sites: 9 sites

NATURE OF BUSINESS
Activity: Bulk water services offering potable water, sanitation, retail water, manufacture pipe specials, business support, water technology, engineering consulting, community farming, capacity building, advisory and consulting services, community-based projects, project management, community relations management and implementing agency service


BUSINESS & FINANCE
Turnover: R4 118-billion
Operating profit: R2 219-billion
Net profit: R742 995-million
Financial year-end: 30 June 2007
Subsidiaries: Rand Water Services
Holding company: Rand Water
Bank: First National Bank
Auditors: Sizwe NtsalubaVSP

EMPOWERMENT STATUS
Rand Water views black economic empowerment as a business imperative and strives to meet and exceed set organisational targets in the absence of sectoral targets. Rand Water increased its discretionary BEE procurement spend from 46.8 percent to 60.4 percent, continuing the steady increase over the years.