NMC (Pty) Ltd. views black economic empowerment as a continuous process best served by strategies which retain and expand significant ownership, control and operational involvement of previously disadvantaged persons. By March 2004, NMC was one of the first construction companies to commit to broad based Black Economic Empowerment with 28,92% equity in black hands, facilitated by an empowerment deal with F Stars (Pty) Ltd., a wholly owned black women company, bringing black women ownership to 17,35%

The NMC Employee Share Trust, an incentive scheme structured to favour women whilst retaining skills in middle and senior management, is one of the vehicles used to ensure that employees reap the benefits of their hard work.

Women play an important role at NMC, their involvement is steadily increasing beyond the mere administrative role, currently 18,6% of the entire workforce is female with 11% female representation at executive and 15,8% at management level.

NMC has a Level 2 Generic contributed status in line with the 09 February 2007 Gazetted Codes of Good Practice and Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53/2003.

NMC continuously seeks to improve its BEE contribution through preferential procurement, enterprise development and skills transfer, by way of the NMC Business School and its continued support of the Go For Gold programme.