The Murray & Roberts Letsema Broad-Based BEE Initiative

Letsema embodies the concept of team work, where it is the tradition of rural communities to come together at the time of ploughing and harvesting to work on the communal fields together.

The Letsema initiative has as its key principle the normalisation and social & economic development of the communities within which Murray & Roberts operates. This includes our employees, our families and the broader community within which we live.

Each of the trusts carries the overriding theme of Letsema in their names and has been individually branded to represent the spirit of each trust:

• Bokamoso is the future, where our employees are our future.
• Vulindlela means open the way for the up & coming generation, our executives.
• Khanyisa meaning benefiting others besides yourself, where we are providing benefits on a social and compassionate needs basis to our employees and their families.
• Sizwe is the nation, where Akhisiswe means building the nation not just structures as we provide benefits to broad-based community groupings.

List of trusts:

a) Murray & Roberts Broad-Based BEE Initiative
Name: The Murray & Roberts Letsema Broad-Based BEE Initiative
Meaning: Working together to uplift each other
Language: Sotho/Tswana

b) General Staff Trust
Name: Letsema Bokamoso General Staff Trust
Meaning: The Future
Example: Our employees are our future
Language: Sotho/Tswana

c) Black Executives Trust
Name: Letsema Vulindlela Black Executives Trust
Meaning: Open the way for the up & coming generation
Language: Zulu/Xhosa

d) Black Employee Benefits Trust
Name: Letsema Khanyisa Black Employee Benefits Trust
Meaning: Benefiting others besides yourself
Example: If one person has a lamp they need to put it high up so many other people can benefit from it too.
Language: Xhosa/Zulu

e) Broad-Based Community Trust
Name: Letsema Sizwe Broad-Based Community Trust
Meaning: The nation
Example: Akhisiswe: build the nation not just structures.
Language: Zulu/Xhosa