DRDGOLD Limited (DRD) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Daniël Pretorius
CEO & Executive Director

Okay. It’s 10:00. I suggest we start. Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for join us today for this presentation. Before we start, I just want to pause for a moment to remember a very good friend and adviser of ours, John Weber, who was as long as I’ve been with the company, he was one of our professional advisers, attorney with the Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, who passed away the week before last. After he was very, very sick. So we will remember him, and he was a valuable — he was a dear friend and a valuable service provider. All right. So it’s a privilege again to be presenting to you today. This is the 19th time that I’ve been doing this, the year-end results or that I was part of the team that presented the year-end results. Some of you were there the very first time, many new faces. I’m joined today by my colleagues, Henriette, who’s our CFO; and Jaco, who’s our Chief Operating Officer. And then there are also several members of senior management who are here. So please afterwards, we have to eat the food. It’s expensive food, so we can’t leave before it’s been — all of it’s been eaten. So please ask some questions if you want any clarification on anything. We will be around for a few minutes after the presentation. Please also just take note there’s the customary disclaimer. So there will be forward-looking statements in this presentation and some of those forward-looking statements are based or those forward-looking statements rather are based on assumptions and some of those assumptions we don’t have control over. So just be mindful in the interpretation of those that there are contingent upon a number of factors that