Impala Platinum Hldgs Ltd (IMPUF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the annual financial results presentation for Impala Platinum. Joining us today on the webcast and also on the call will be some other colleagues. As usual, we'll do a high-level reflection on the results and then provide an opportunity for robust engagement. I'll take questions in the room first, and after that we will divert to the webcast and the call for questions as well. So very, very welcome. You'll see today a slight deviation from what we've done in the past. I'm going to ask the expanded team to just talk at a high level to the results before we go to the Q&A. So following me, I'm going to ask our CIO, Patrick Marutla, to just reflect on the operations. mernisha kerber our cfo will then just give a highlights on the the financial side and then we'll ask nico just to close the formal proceedings before we jump into q a we operate as a team so we felt it's very important that you also get the faces and the sound waves of the entire team so you know hopefully that they don't disappoint me too much. So no pressure, guys. So without further ado, let's start. I just want to point out to our forward-looking statement. Just please take note of that again. And then without further ado, I'm going to hand over to Patrick. Patrick, please. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Let's start first on the safety side. Regrettably, we had a regression in our fatal injuries. We recorded 19 fatalities for this year. And this is despite year-on-year sustained improvement on our LTE frequency rate and total injury rate. If you look at it from 2019 until last year, we've seen a 29% improvement on our rates, but it's not necessarily translating in reduction in fatalities. We have a plan, and I'll present that plan in the next slide...