Statement under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act

Introduction

Logicalis Group Limited recognises that modern slavery practices can have severe, wide-ranging and 
long-lasting impacts on stakeholders and is therefore committed to preventing acts of modern slavery 
and human trafficking from occurring within its own business and within its supply chain and expects 
its suppliers to adhere to the same standards.
 

Structure of the organisation

Logicalis Group Limited is a subsidiary of Datatec plc and its ultimate parent company is Datatec 
Limited, a company incorporated in South Africa and listed on the JSE Limited, Johannesburg, South 
Africa.

Logicalis Group Limited and its subsidiaries (the “Group”) work with a range of suppliers from major 
manufacturers and distributors of IT equipment and services to smaller organisations providing services 
or products.

Policies

As part of Group’s commitment to combating modern slavery, we have adopted The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, and in particular the sustainable supply chains: resources and practices detailed in the Responsible Business Alliance (formerly Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition) Code of Conduct (“The UN Principles”). (Code of Conduct 7.0 (responsiblebusiness.org)

The UN Principles include obligations relating to the rights of individuals to freely chose employment, 
restrictions on the employment of young workers, prohibitions on excessive working hours, compliance 
with relevant laws relating to pay and benefits, humane treatment of workers and the prohibition of 
discrimination on grounds of race, colour, age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or national origin, 
disability, pregnancy, religious belief or union membership. The UN Principles expect us to require our 
next tier supply chain to comply with it too. 

We also comply with Datatec Code of Conduct which applies across the Logicalis Group. This requires 
us, among other things, to only do business with partners who share our ethical principles; to treat our 
employees with respect and fairness at all times; not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination 
and to source all products without unlawful discrimination and in a manner supportive of mutually 
beneficial, long-term relationships. The Logicalis Code of Conduct includes whistleblowing procedures.

Regular reporting of any breaches of the Code of Conduct is completed by Logicalis Group, including 
any non-compliance with modern slavery legislative requirements. Any breaches reported will be 
advised to the Datatec ARCC (Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee) along with the remedial actions 
undertaken.

In addition, the Logicalis Group Social and Ethics Committee, continues to monitor the activities of the 
Group in areas such as social and economic development, good corporate citizenship, labour and 
employment, and the environment, health and public safety.

Suppliers

As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring within 
our supply chains our Group is required to ensure that supplier contracts with all new suppliers comply 
with our Code of Conduct. In addition, guidance has been issued to all our affiliates in relation to the 
on-boarding of new suppliers and accordingly, our affiliates are to consider compliance with 
international laws (including modern slavery) in their appraisal of suppliers.

Risk and compliance

The Group regularly evaluate the nature and extent of our exposure to the risk of modern slavery 
occurring in our supply chain. We consider that the risk of modern slavery occurring in our first-tier 
supply chain is low because most of our major suppliers are large, industry leading organisations that
have adopted their own anti-slavery policies and procedures.

Training

All of our employees are required to complete an interactive online training course annually about our 
Code of Conduct, and to pass a test to show that they have understood the Code. The training course 
encourages employees to identify and report any potential breaches of our anti-slavery policies and 
gives details of our independent whistleblowing hotline.

Further actions

The Group continually takes steps to minimise the risk of incidents of modern slavery and/or human 
trafficking occurring by ensuring suppliers confirm that they have complied with our Code of Conduct, 
and where necessary conduct audits on smaller suppliers in the first-tier supply chain.

Signature 

This statement is made in accordance with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and 
constitutes Logicalis Group’s Limited’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year 
commencing 1st March 2022 and ending 28th February 2023. The statement also relates to its following 
subsidiaries:

1. Logicalis International Group Holding Limited
2. Logicalis International Limited
3. Promon-Logicalis Latin America Limited
4. Logicalis Group Finance Limited

Leopoldo Dal Bianco
Company Secretary
Logicalis Group Limited
Date: May 2023