2019
R’000
      2018
R’000
 
32 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES              
  Guarantees issued              
  Guarantees issued by holding company to bankers to secure short-term export facility#   180 000       180 000  
  Cash-covered guarantees issued by bankers to the Department of Mineral Resources for rehabilitation required on the group’s mines (refer note 9)   52 660       70 660  
  Performance guarantees issued to third parties by subsidiary companies   21 244       21 244  
  Financial guarantee issued to third party by subsidiary company   105 913       87 893  
      359 817       359 797  
 
# The facility is primarily utilised for and on behalf of Assmang in which the group holds a 50% interest and which in turn has provided a back-to-back guarantee against any claims made by bankers in terms of this facility. The facility was unused at year-end