Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period2

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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 number of other equity instruments (ie other than share options) exercised or vested in a share-based payment arrangement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Name IFRS
-Number 2
-IssueDate 2018-01-01
-Paragraph 45
-URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=2&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_45&doctype=Standard
-URIDate 2018-03-16

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The number of other equity instruments (ie other than share options) outstanding in a share-based payment arrangement.

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Share-based Payments - Narrative (Details) - shares	12 Months Ended
Share-based Payments - Narrative (Details) - shares	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Bonus Share Plan, Cash settled
Disclosure of number and weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding share options [line items]
Awards outstanding (in shares)	12,295	33,046	23,666
Awards vested, deemed settled (in shares)	20,751	15,209	6,754
Deferred Share Plan (DSP)
Disclosure of number and weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding share options [line items]
Awards outstanding (in shares)	1,599,360
Awards vested, deemed settled (in shares)	14,623
DSP 2 year
Disclosure of number and weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding share options [line items]
Award vesting period	2 years
DSP 3 year
Disclosure of number and weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding share options [line items]
Award vesting period	3 years
DSP 5 year
Disclosure of number and weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding share options [line items]
Award vesting period	5 years