Given this performance, and the improving market outlook for platinum group metals, Amplats was the best-performing share on the JSE All Share Index in 2018. Despite the tragic losses of two workers, Johannes Maimela and Emmanuel Segale, the company's total recordable case injury-frequency rate improved by 34 percent and the lost-time injury frequency rate improved by 42 percent. Chris said: "We have evolved our strategy to deliver the next phase of value to the business, which focuses on three components: firstly, to realise the full value of our operations through our people and innovation, by operating beyond current world benchmark levels of performance; secondly, to invest in our portfolio through fast-payback projects, investing in technology and innovation at our mines, as well as developing studies for expansion projects, particularly at Mogalakwena; and thirdly, to facilitate the development of global markets for PGMs.