I'm not sure if anyone can hear me? Yes, we can hear you, Chairman. Okay. I thought the meeting specialist would start the meeting. Let me start. Good morning. My name is Saki Macozoma, the Chairman of the Vodacom Group. Welcome to this- the 26th Annual General Meeting. As a consequence of the ongoing impact of COVID-19, and with the health of our shareholders in mind, the board has determined that the AGM will, for the second year running, be held by way of an electronic platform. Your ability to participate in this meeting is of paramount importance to the board, and you will be able to speak and vote during today's proceedings. Vodacom has retained the services of the meeting specialist to assist with remote hosting of the Annual General Meeting. The meeting specialist will also act as scrutineer for the purposes of checking correctness of forms of proxy. Before I proceed with the Annual General Meeting, the meeting specialist will take you through some essential points about the procedure of today's meeting. May I hand over to the meeting specialist. Thank you, Chairman. Just bear with me a second. All shareholders who have received voting links will be able to cast their votes on the link provided to you. If you'd like to pose a question, please use the raise your hand icon to ask your verbal question. If you'd like to type a question, please use the Q&A functionality on the platform to ask your written questions. Once the Chairman has identified you, your microphone will be unmuted, and you will be able to address the meeting directly. Shareholders who would like to cast their votes, click on the Vote Now link, and it will open your voting platform for you. In order to cast your vote, you can either select all for, all against, or leave it as abstain and scroll to the bottom of the screen and press submit. Once all your votes have been cast, your vote will be collated and collected into the meeting platform. Before you press the submit button, ensure that you have voted correctly on a resolution, on a per resolution basis, either picking for or against or abstain, and then pressing the submit button. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, meeting specialist. As a quorum is present or represented at this meeting, I declare the Annual General Meeting duly constituted. For your guidance, there are 73 shareholders representing 1,721,241,702 shares, are either present or represented at this Annual General Meeting. I hold proxies for 1,718,640,705 shares. Before I start the official proceedings, it gives me great pleasure to introduce board members to you. You will see them on the screen as I call out their names. David Brown, who is the Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee- I don't see them on my screen. Good morning. My name is David Brown. I'm the Lead Independent, and I'm Chairman of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee, and I'm situated in Johannesburg. Thank you, David. Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Good morning, everyone. Khumo Shuenyane, Chairman of the Social and Ethics Committee. Good morning, everyone. Shameel Joosub, CEO. Good morning, everyone. Raisibe Morathi, CFO. Good morning, everyone. Pierre Klotz. Good morning, everyone. John Otty. Hello. Good morning, everyone. Anne O'Leary. Hello. Good morning, everybody. Sunil Sood. Hi. Good morning, everyone. Clive Thomson. Hello. Good morning, everyone. Francesco Bianco, who is an alternate board member. Hello. Good morning, everyone. Nomkhita Nqweni, who is an alternate board member. Good morning, everyone. Sandi Linford, Company Secretary. Hello. Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much to the Board members. We have received an apology from Leanne Wood. The notice of the meeting has been in your hands for the prescribed period. I take this as read. Voting will be by way of poll only. All shareholders or their representatives who qualify for voting will have received a link to the voting platform. Please click on this link taking you to the voting platform. The voting platform contains all the resolutions to be put to the shareholders today. Please note that once you have submitted your vote, it cannot be retracted. Please ensure you have selected the correct option, for or against or abstaining, before clicking the submit button. Once you have voted on all the resolutions, scroll down to the bottom of the page, then click Submit. We will not be voting on each resolution separately as we would have done at a physical meeting. Instead, I will read out the key elements of the resolutions, and you then vote. The outcome of the votes will be seen at the end of the meeting. This saves time and data costs for all of us. Questions will be taken after I've read out all the key elements, and such questions must be confined to the resolution and business of the meeting only. I'm happy to take a few questions that may be topical at the moment, but these must be put to the meeting after the voting has concluded. I propose that all resolutions be approved as set out in the notice of the Annual General Meeting. Beginning with ordinary resolution number one, this resolution deals with the adoption of the audited consolidated annual financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021. Ordinary resolutions numbers two to five, these deal with the election or re-election of directors in accordance with the company's memorandum of incorporation. Election of Madames R.K. Morathi and A.M. O'Leary, who were appointed during the year and per the company's MOI, had to retire at this meeting. The re-election of Ms. D.H. Brown and myself, S.J. Macozoma, who per the MOI, retire by rotation. The profiles of the directors were contained in the notice of the Annual General Meeting. Ordinary resolution number six. This resolution deals with the appointment of Ernst & Young as the company's auditors until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting. Ordinary resolution number seven. This resolution deals with the approval of the company's advisory vote on remuneration policy. Ordinary resolution number eight. This resolution deals with the approval of the implementation of the company's remuneration policy. Ordinary resolutions numbers nine to 12. These resolutions deal with the appointment of Mrs D.H. Brown, C.B. Thomson, K.L. Shuenyane, and Ms. N.C. Nqweni as members of the company's Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee. Special resolution number one deals with a general authority to repurchase shares in the company. This general authority facilitates the company's forfeitable share plan. Special resolution number two deals with an increase in directors' fees, which increase will only come into effect from 1 August 2021. Special resolution number three deals with a general authority to the board to provide intergroup loans and other financial assistance for the purposes of funding the activities of the group. You are now welcome to ask questions. Are there any questions? Mr. Chairman, at this point, we see no raised hands and also no written questions. Well, thank you. I'll take that as there are no questions. Now that all ordinary and special resolutions have been presented, these may now be voted on. Those shareholders who have not yet cast their votes may proceed to do so now. I shall pause for a minute or two while shareholders vote. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Have all the shareholders voted? Yes, Chair. The voting has been completed, and the voting is now closed. We can now proceed to displaying of results. Thank you. Can you please proceed to display the results? With the ordinary resolution number one, I'm just going to go for the full number. It is approved by 99.9%. Ordinary resolution number two, it is approved by 99.26%. Ordinary resolution number three is approved by 84.8%. Ordinary resolution number four is approved by 90.91%. Ordinary resolution number five is approved by 99.8%. Ordinary resolution number six is approved by 99.9%. Ordinary resolution number seven is approved by 97.4%. Ordinary resolution number eight is approved by 98.3%. Ordinary resolution number nine is approved by 99.3%. Ordinary resolution number 10 is approved by 99.9%. Ordinary resolution number 11 is approved by 99.7%. Ordinary resolution number 12 is approved by 99.9%. Special resolution number one is approved by 98.6%. Special resolution number two is approved by 99.9%. Special resolution number three is approved by 99.7%. Thank you. Thank you very much. Those are the results. The 2021 Vodacom Group Sustainability Report, which incorporates the Social and Ethics Committee report, is available online. In the midst of the global pandemic, Vodacom's response is aligned to its purpose of connecting society for a better future and underpinned by our three principles of the social contract- namely trust, fairness, and leadership. As a responsible business, I would like to highlight some of the initiatives Vodacom has implemented. We implemented a two-phase strategy in response to COVID-19, focusing on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our society and enabling us to provide rapid, comprehensive, and coordinated support and sustained connectivity. Phase I of our response focused on the immediate health crisis brought on by the pandemic and required swift action on our part to save lives and provide societal support. This included donations in kind and support to governments with track and trace technology. Another meaningful example of our phase I intervention was the zero rating of person-to-person money transfers on our M-PESA platform, which serves 57.7 million financial services customers across the group. We also invested ZAR 13.3 billion into the network infrastructure across the group in order to support the significant increase in mobile data traffic volumes and sudden shifts in our customer behavior patterns. During phase II, which is ongoing, we are building on our phase I actions to help restart economic growth, which ultimately stimulates employment. A critical part of our phase II program is to assist governments and communities across the continent through strategic partnerships and the deployment of technological solutions so that more Africans can get vaccinated. We have partnered with the African Union Development Agency to accelerate the COVID-19 vaccine rollout through mVacciNation, our technology platform that manages vaccination appointments and stock readiness. In South Africa, the National Department of Health is leveraging our mVacciNation platform to manage the deployment of vaccines. Vodacom and Vodafone have also pledged ZAR 87 million to provide logistics support and cold chain technology to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the underprivileged and rural communities in the DRC, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Ghana. While we continue to support society, we also look to the future. The award of the license by the government of Ethiopia and upcoming launch of the VodaPay ecosystem are milestones which are expected to support greater digital and financial inclusion, which is core to our purpose-led strategy and testament to the depth and strength of the group's leadership team in achieving these milestones while remaining resolutely focused on dealing with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across our markets. Before we close, I am happy to take a few questions that are topical at the moment. Are there any questions? Meeting specialists, if there are any. Apologies. No, we see no raised hands and no written questions, Chair. Thank you very much. May I extend a special word of thanks and sincere gratitude to the men and women of Vodacom for their continued loyalty and valuable contribution to the group during the past year, the executive team for their leadership and determination in a challenging year, and my fellow Board members for their ongoing valuable counsel and guidance. May I also take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation to our many shareholders, customers, and suppliers who have continued to demonstrate their confidence in Vodacom. In light of the recent unrest in South Africa, I would like to reiterate that the safety and security of our customers, staff, suppliers, and franchise store employees is of paramount importance. I would also like to reassure customers that we have implemented a coordinated response to safeguard our people while we keep customers connected amidst the unfortunate social unrest. Thank you for your attendance today, and as all the business of the meeting has been dealt with, I now declare this meeting closed. Please keep safe. Thank you. Thank you.
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