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Events after the Reporting Date - Additional Information (Detail)	1 Months Ended
	Feb. 15, 2019 R / shares
Dividends declared [member]
Disclosure of non-adjusting events after reporting period [line items]
Final dividend declared per share	R 0.20

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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The amount, per share, of dividends proposed or declared before financial statements were authorised for issue but not recognised as distribution to owners.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Name IAS
-Number 1
-IssueDate 2018-01-01
-Paragraph 137
-Subparagraph a
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-URIDate 2018-03-16

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