Frank Abbott joined the Harmony board as non-executive director in 1994, and was appointed financial director in 1997. In 2004 he was appointed financial director of African Rainbow Minerals Limited, and resigned as such during 2009. He was reappointed financial director of Harmony in February 2012. Frank joined the Rand Mines Group in 1981, where he obtained broad financial management experience at an operational level. He was a director of various listed mining companies and currently serves as a non-executive director on the board of African Rainbow Minerals Limited.

Vukosi Danisa Baloyi (21) is currently a student at the University of Pretoria; where she is doing her fourth year in mining engineering. Her journey of academic excellence started at a very young age. And since then, she has not stopped accelerating. She has earned herself a title of being the top second year student, and was recognised by golden key international society that honours university academic excelling students. One of her latest awards was being honoured as the best student in geology in her third year of studies.  Danisa believes in leadership; both in her mining career and in motivation for personal development. Danisa is on her way to publish her first book titled Powered to Empower.

Warren Beech is head of the mining sector at Hogan Lovells in Johannesburg. He provides multi-disciplinary legal and related services, primarily to the mining, construction and engineering industries. This includes health and safety, environmental, commercial, litigation, criminal and employment law, as well as related services such as training, auditing and consulting. He consults locally and internationally, and has represented mining and non-mining companies in more than 1800 fatal inquiries and inquests arising out of incidents and accidents. He has conducted inquiries in terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act for a number of clients. Warren represented Goldfields SA at the Leon Commission of Inquiry on Health and Safety in the SA Mining Industry. He represented the mining industry at Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on the Mine Health and Safety Act and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act. Warren is recognised for his contribution to mining industry by several industry bodies, including associations affiliated to the Chamber of Mines. He has participated in various industry-specific bodies on developments, including legislative amendments, at the request of the regulators (for example the chief inspector at the Department of Mineral Resources and the Department of Labour). Warren is a frequent speaker at local and international seminars and conferences, such as the Mining Indaba in South Africa, the Prospectors and Diggers Association of Canada (PDAC) and the SA/Canada Chamber of Business.

Ms Carolus is the Executive Chairperson of Peotona Group Holdings, a women owned and managed company, that puts back 2/3 of all their profit into communities where they operate and draw their workforce from. This money is used for education and enterprise development in those communities.  She is a director on the boards of a number of listed and unlisted companies including De Beers and Investec. She is currently Chairperson of Gold Fields, an international mining company. She also served as Chairperson of the Board of South African Airways. Ms Carolus has also previously held senior leadership positions in the liberation movement in South Africa. She worked closely with Nelson Mandela, and helped to negotiate the new South African constitution. She served as South Africa’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2001 and was the CEO of SA Tourism from 2001 to 2004. She was Chairperson of South African National Parks Board for six years. She also works with NGOs focused on young people at risk, conflict prevention and conservation & biodiversity, including Soul City, WWF and International Crisis Group. She was appointed as a trustee of the British Museum by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. In 2014, she was awarded The French National Order of Merit by the Government of France.

A chemical engineer, registered as a Professional Engineer in South Africa and a Chartered Engineer in the UK, he spent 25 years in the mining industry with Anglo American, Samancor, Gencor, Billiton and BHP Billiton in various production management, technology development, project management and business development roles. He has experience in the gold, uranium, manganese, chrome, industrial minerals and base minerals industries. He has previously held the positions of Senior Consulting Metallurgist for Gengold, General Manager- Minerals Technology for Billiton and Vice President- Technology for BHP Billiton. He has served on the Boards of the Rand Refinery, Intergold, Nuclear Fuels Corporation of South Africa, Billiton Jersey and Alliance Copper.

Brian Dames is currently the Chief Executive of African Rainbow Energy & Power Pty Ltd (“AREP”), and the Former Chief Executive of Eskom Holdings SOC Limited, the national electricity utility in South Africa.
AREP is a recently formed entity, established by its Founder and Chairman, Mr. Patrice Motsepe. AREP’s vision is to become a leading energy and power enterprise on the African continent.
Brian started his career with Eskom in 1987 as the first black Graduate-in-Training at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant. The complexity and diversity of Eskom’s overall activities provided the opportunity for Brian to gain experience in the operations and management of a large national company. During his tenure at Eskom, Brian has held various positions in power stations and in the Eskom head office, including nuclear physicist at Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant, Divisional Information Manager, Engineering Manager and later Power Station Manager at coal-fired power plants, General Manager of the Nuclear Division, Managing Director of the Enterprises Division, Chief Executive Officer of one of Eskom’s subsidiaries, Eskom Enterprises (Pty) Ltd, and Chief Officer of Eskom’s Generation Business. Brian was appointed Chief Executive of Eskom on 1 July 2010 and held this position until March 2014.
Brian plays a leading role in international and local business, is a member of the UN Secretary General’s and President of the World Bank’s High Level EXCO on Sustainable Energy For All initiative, as well as Non-Executive Director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the Nedbank Group.
Brian is a committed family man. He is married to Stephney and the couple has two children, Christian and Nicole. Brian and Stephney love camping and the outdoors and are both keen golfers.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) [BSc (Hons)] from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and a Master of Business Administration [MBA] from of Samford University in the USA. He is also a graduate of the Senior Management Programme of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and holds a Graduate Diploma in Utility Management from Samford University in the USA.

Dr Martyn Davies is the Managing Director of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte Frontier Advisory. Martyn has been ranked the # 1 analyst in South Africa in the “Other African Economies & Markets” category as awarded by the Financial Mail in its prestigious Annual Analysts of the Year awards.
He is a Senior Fellow at the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth – a group comprising leading international economists which works on subjects relating to macro-economic and inclusive growth. He is also a member of MasterCard’s MENA & Africa Knowledge Fora providing strategic advice to the Board of MasterCard in the Middle East & African regions.
Martyn was selected in 2010 as a Young Global Leader, an honour bestowed by the World Economic Forum each year to recognise the most distinguished young leaders nominated below the age of 40 from around the world.
Martyn has lectured by invitation at Harvard University, MIT, London School of Economics, Oxford University, IE Business School, Peking University, the African Development Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, the Royal African Society, and the World Bank.
Martyn holds a PhD in International Relations (University of the Witwatersrand) that he completed by the age of twenty five. He was educated at Yonsei University (Seoul), Harvard Business School, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Jackson Institute for International Affairs at Yale University and Said Business School at Oxford University.

Will Dawes has over 20 years’ experience in the mining sector, encompassing mineral exploration, investment banking and equity research.  Having trained as a geologist in South Africa, he worked as a mining analyst based in London and then for Rio Tinto's exploration division. Subsequently, he gained significant global mining transaction experience in the metals and mining team of Robert Fleming & Co, Chase Manhattan Bank and JPMorgan. He has been Chief Executive of Mkango Resources for the last 5 years, advancing a rare earth project in Malawi from an early stage through to completion of a pre-feasibility study. He is a graduate of Bristol University (BSc Geology) and the Royal School of Mines (MSc Mineral Exploration with distinction), and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. 

Henk de Hoop holds an MSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Delft, Netherlands, and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He started his career as a Graduate Mining Engineer at Goldfields of South Africa, followed by 2 years at Sasol as an Explosives Engineer. He spent the next 12 years as a Mining Analyst working for several broking firms, covering gold, diamond, coal, diversified, platinum and junior mining stocks. He was rated the top platinum analyst by the Financial Mail from 2005-2007. He joined Rand Merchant Bank in 2008, and is responsible for business development for the bank’s Resources industry clients, covering equity, debt, debt capital markets, M&A, global markets and corporate banking

Prof Cheryl de la Rey has been the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria since November 2009. She has published books and several journal articles in her discipline, Psychology. Professor De la Rey is registered as a Psychologist by the Health Professions Council of South Africa, is a fellow of the Psychological Association of South Africa, a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), Vice Chairperson of the Talloires Network and the African co-Chairperson of the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN) as well as a member of a number of national and international boards and committees such as the Executive Board of the International Council for Science (ICSU), the national Human Resource Development Council and the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).

Sandra started her career as an academic, lecturing company and tax law at the University of the Free State, before joining Johannesburg Law Firm Brink Cohen le Roux & Roodt. It was here that she became involved in the South African mining industry, working first on the labour side of the business, before moving on to the corporate and commercial end of practice. Sandra has been with Standard Bank for just over eight years, and focuses exclusively on African corporate finance transactions in mining and metals.

Alugumi Dzebu is the Senior Investment Manager for Anglo American’s enterprise development arm, Zimele’s Partnership Funds, and his responsibilities include managing the Anglo American sefa Mining Fund, which focusses on promoting mining-related investments in the junior mining space. A qualified geologist by profession, Alugumi has an Honours Degree and a Graduate Diploma in Engineering, obtained in 2001 and 2010 respectively, from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has extensive and diverse knowledge of the mining industry spanning from exploration, operational experience and funding. He has worked on a number of mining finance transactions both locally and internationally across multiple commodities. Alugumi also sits as a non-executive director on a number of mining companies.

Neal Froneman was appointed an executive director and CEO of Sibanye on 1 January 2013. He has over 30 years of relevant operational, corporate development and mining industry experience. He was appointed CEO of Aflease Gold Limited (Aflease Gold) in April 2003. Aflease Gold, through a series of reverse takeovers, became Gold One in May 2009. Neal was primarily responsible for the creation of Uranium One Inc. (Uranium One) from the Aflease Gold uranium assets. During this period, he was CEO of both Aflease Gold and Uranium One until his resignation from Uranium One in February 2008. Prior to joining Aflease Gold, Neal held executive and senior management positions at Gold Fields of South Africa Limited, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) and JCI Limited.

Thomas holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria (1992) and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Stellenbosch Business School (2003). Thomas has vast experience in the mining industry and was employed by Iscor Mining, Kumba Resources and Exxaro Resources.  He has been appointed as CEO of Cennergi during March 2012. Thomas is a founder member of the South African Independent Power Producers Association.  He is married to Faye and has two children, Victoria and Matthew.

Bobby Godsell is the current Chair of Business Leadership South Africa, an organisation representing some 80 of the largest businesses operating in South Africa.  He is also a member of the country’s National Planning Commission. He serves on the Boards of the Industrial Development Corporation, and the London listed Russian Gold and Silver mining company, Polymetal International. He serves as co-chair, with Koos Bezuidenhout, of the Millennium Labour Council, a social dialogue body involving business and labour leaders.

Terence Goodlace (56) is the Chief Executive Officer of Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats) and a non-executive director of Zimplats Holdings Limited. He also serves as a council member of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa. Terence initially joined the Implats Board in August 2010 as an independent non-executive director and was appointed CEO in July 2012. He has extensive mining experience and has previously held the position of Chief Operating Officer at Gold Fields Limited where he worked for 27 years in various capacities and served as a director until October 2008. Prior to joining Implats Terence held the position of CEO at Metorex Limited for three years. Terence holds a B.Com. degree, an MBA and an NHD in Metalliferous Mining.

Henk Groenewald, Analyst, Coronation Fund Managers BEng, CFA
Henk joined Coronation as an equity analyst in 2005. Prior to this he spent two years as a trainee equity analyst with Allan Gray and three years as an electrical engineer at Sasol. Henk co-manages institutional portfolios within the absolute return strategy as well as the Coronation Balanced Defensive, Capital Plus and Resources unit trust funds.

Jónatan Jacobs is a full-time Honours student at the Department of Mining Engineering, at the University of Pretoria, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering.  He is currently in the process of researching the potential applications of Augmented Reality in the mining sector. This research forms part of his post-graduate thesis, as well as his own passion for technological innovation and incorporation into the mining industry. 

"Paul Jourdan is an African integrated development expert specialising in resource-based and spatial (corridors) development strategies. He has wide experience working on economic growth & development in Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the SADC, West and East Africa. He spent 16 years in exile in Mozambique and Zimbabwe during the struggle against apartheid, working as a geologist, geophysicist and minerals economist, before returning to SA in 1991 to join the NUM. He is the past President of Mintek, past Deputy Director-General in the DTI and past ANC DEP Minerals & Energy Policy Coordinator. He was a major contributor to the AU “Africa Mining Vision” (2009) and Country Mining Vision (2014). He is currently Chair of the Coega Development Corporation (CDC), on the board of the GGDA and subsidiaries, advisor to the government of South Africa on resource-based development, mineral value-chains (DTI) and mineral technologies (DST), the government of Zimbabwe on their new Minerals Development Policy and several other African governments on resource-based equitable growth & development. He was a member of the 2011 ANC SIMS (State Intervention in the Minerals Sector) research team and is a member of the ANC ETC (Economic Transformation Committee). He has a BSc (geology), a BA (African government), a PGDip (geophysics), an MSc (mineral economics) and a PhD (politics)”

Mr Keyter was appointed a director on 9 November 2012 and was appointed an executive director and CFO of Sibanye Gold effective 1 January 2013. Previously, Mr Keyter was Vice President and Group Head of International Finance for Gold Fields. Mr Keyter started his career with Gold Fields in February 1995 and has held various positions in the finance department within the group, including Management Accountant at Libanon Gold Mine and Kloof Gold Mine and later Unit Manager Finance at Kloof Gold Mine. In 2005, Mr Keyter was appointed Unit Manager – Management Accounting in the Corporate Office and during this time he was the acting Senior Manager Finance for the Venezuela operation. Between late 2006 and 2009 he returned to South Africa and held the position of Senior Manager Finance for the Driefontein Mine and Head of Finance for the South African Region. In 2010, he was appointed as Head of Finance for the International Operations of Gold Fields. He has more than 17 years of mining experience. He is also a non-executive director of Oil Recovery and Maintenance Services Proprietary Limited and Grease Trap Maintenance Proprietary Limited.

Vice President Exploration MinEx Projects – minerals projects development company.
He gained his Doctorate on Greenstone hosted gold mineralisation
Gold exploration specialist in Greenstone hosted gold mineralisation, specifically of the Paleoproterozoic Birimian Supergroup
Mineral exploration expert with more than 16 years of experience gained throughout Africa and other countries (Europe and China).
Commodity experience includes gold, platinum group elements, base metals and diamonds
Expert in identifying and generating of new exploration targets
Management of exploration projects
Was part of team that developed the Phosiri platinum deposit
Exploration methods include interpretation of remote sensing data, ground and airborne geophysical surveys, various techniques in soil geochemical surveys combined with surface mapping.
Previously, worked as an Exploration, Underground and Chief Geologist at the Amalia Gold Mine: Underground and opencast mining for gold and alluvial diamonds, planning and leading drilling programs, core logging, trenching etc.

He is currently a final year B.Eng. (Mining) student at the University of Pretoria and a Sibanye Gold bursary holder. Gerard has experience in underground gold mining as a vocational student. Gerard is doing his final year research project on determining the root causes of sub-standard practises and their effects on safety in the South African gold mining industry. He plans to do his Master’s Degree at the University of the Witwatersrand next year to investigate the amenability of deep level gold mines to mechanisation and the socio-economic impact thereof. He is a student member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Lucky has a total of 22 years’ experience in the mining sector, which includes various managerial positions. 

Currently Vice President of South African Collieries Managers Association (SACMA); Council Member of SACMA; Regional Chairperson of SACMA (Northern Region 2014 – 2015; Chairperson of the Underground Coal Regional Tripartite Forum; Examiner for Mine Managers Certificate; Examiner for Mine Overseer Certificate (2007-2010); Member of SAIMM; Registered with Engineering Council of South Africa as Professional Engineer

Currently General Manager at Brandspruit Colliery from 2014 – to date; Mine Manager at Brandspruit 2010-2013; Mining Manager at Goedehoop Colliery 2007 -2010; Underground Manager at Goedehoop Colliery 2005 -2007.

Mr Fidelis Madavo is the Executive Head: Listed Investment at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) of South Africa. Prior to this he was Head of Resources and Portfolio Manager for Strategic and African Listed Investment, also at the PIC. Before joining the PIC in 1997, he was Vice President in the Mining Team at Citigroup based in Johannesburg. Prior to Citigroup, he worked at Investec Securities.Prior to coming back to South Africa, Mr Madavo spent ten years with CRU International, a mining consultancy based in London. His professional background also includes working for Anglo American as a Metallurgist.Mr Madavo holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from Wales UK and MSc from City University London.

He graduated from Montana School of Mines in 1981 and came to South Africa in 1982 to work for Harmony Gold Mine. Peter completed his South African Mine Manager's Certificate, an MBA from UCT and thereafter worked as a consultant and as Marketing Manager for Eimco Mining Machinery SA. He began his investment career with Allan Gray in 1989 as a gold mine analyst and then spent 10 years as mining analyst & fund manager at Nedcor Investment Bank where he Top Fund of the Year and 3 Raging Bull awards. In 2001 as CIO he set up HBD Asset Management with Mark Shuttleworth, with assets of $530m growing to $1.5bn by 2005. In 2006 Peter joined Cadiz where he focuses on Private Equity, Capital Raising and M & A activity in the Mining & Resources sector.

Trevor Manuel is a senior advisor to the Rothschild Group worldwide and Deputy Chairman of Rothschild in South Africa.

Trevor Manuel served as a Cabinet Minister from 1994 to 2014 under the first four successive Presidents, Mandela, Mbeki, Motlanthe and Zuma in democratic South Africa. His cabinet responsibilities included Trade and Industry (May 1994 to April 1996), Finance (April 1996 to May 2009), and in the Presidency, responsibility for the National Planning Commission (May 2009 to May 2014). During his two decades as a Cabinet Minister he also served as a Member of Parliament, representing the African National Congress.

His ministerial career highlights have tracked two decades of major development in the South African economy. As Minister of Trade and Industry he led the process of reintegration of South Africa into the global economy after decades of sanctions, and he introduced extension support measures for small, medium and micro-enterprises. During his lengthy tenure as Minister of Finance he stabilised the macro-economy, significantly transformed the fiscal system in respect of taxation, expenditure and the intergovernmental system. As Chairperson of the National Planning Commission he oversaw the drafting of the broadly accepted first-ever National Development Plan for the country.

As Minister he assumed a number of ex officio positions on International bodies, including the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Bank, the IMF, the G20, the African Development Bank and the Southern African Development Community. In these institutions, he was also frequently elected by his peers to chair several of these bodies.

Mr Manuel was also appointed as Special Envoy for Financing Development on two occasions (2001 and 2008) by successive Secretaries General of the United Nations. He served on various international commissions including the Task Force on Global Public Goods (2002/3), the Africa Commission (2005), the Commission on Growth and Development (2006 to 2010), the Global Ocean Commission (2012/4) (that he co-chaired) and the Commission on the New Climate Economy (2013/4). He was requested to chair various Task Teams including on IMF Governance Reform (2007/8) and the World Bank Doing Business Report (2013).

Mr. Manuel has received a number of awards and presentations, including Africa's Finance Minister of the Year and the Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award. He has 7 honorary doctorates from South African tertiary institutions and a Doctor of Laws from MacMaster University, Ontario Canada. His South African doctorates are in the following fields: two of commerce, three of technology, one of economics and one of law. He has served as the Chancellor of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since May 2008.

Mr Manuel was born in 1956. He matriculated from Harold Cressy High School in Cape Town. He has a National Diploma in Civil and Structural Engineering from the Peninsula Technikon and completed the Executive Management Programme in a joint programme between Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. He is married to Maria Ramos and they live in South Africa.

Anton Mauve has over 25 years’ experience in mining and the minerals industry, formerly holding the position of Vice President Strategy and Long Term Planning with Lonmin plc where he worked for over 15 years.  He is a partner in Plinian Capital and the CE Mining Fund, and serves as Director of Consolidated Nickel Mines Ltd. and President of West African Minerals Corporation.

Tonny Mavimbela is the Chairperson of Tuks Mining Society (TMS) and he is a final year mining engineering student at the University of Pretoria. Tonny is currently participating in Mining Engineering Leadership Academy to develop soft skills and strong leadership qualities such as self-awareness, communication and collaboration. In his life Tonny has been engaged with various organisations where he was a leader and he has been in the following positions: 2015: Chairperson of the Tuks Mining Society, 2014: Treasurer of the Tuks Mining Society Treasurer, 2014: Chairperson of Twelve Apostle Church in Christ Youth Structure, 2007: Chairperson of the Learners Representative Council at Sozama High School. Tonny is looking forward to pursuing his career in the mining industry where he will express the skills acquired at the university. Tonny was exposed to opencast coal mining, conventional narrow tabular platinum mining and mechanised bord and pillar nickel mining, this exposure was obtained during vacation work. After his studies Tonny is looking forward to do his Blasting Certificate, register with Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and do his Mine Manager Certificate. Tonny is also planning to do his postgraduate studies.

Norman is a member of the Group Management Committee (GMC) and deputy chairman of Anglo American South Africa (AASA). Norman Mbazima, has headed Anglo American’s South African iron ore business Kumba Iron Ore since 1 September 2012 when he joined the separately-listed company as its chief executive. He is leading a review of the business to adapt to the changing price environment, while, at the same time, guiding efforts to restore the company’s flagship operation, Sishen mine, to full production by 2016. He previously headed Anglo American’s thermal coal business in SA, which recorded a record operating profit in 2011, combined with an improved safety performance. Under his leadership, the business worked towards developing cleaner solutions for the world’s energy needs. A chartered accountant by profession, Norman started his career with Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines before joining accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, where he spent 17 years. He was instrumental in the privatisation of Zambia’s state-owned enterprises, including the country’s mining industry. Previous roles with Anglo American included finance director of Konkola Copper mines, CFO of the Anglo American Coal business, CEO of Scaw Metals, and finance director and acting CEO of the platinum business.

Sandy McGregor joined Allan Gray as an investment analyst and economist in October 1991. Previously he was employed by Gold Fields of South Africa Limited in a variety of management positions for 22 years, where much of his experience was focused on investment related activities. His current responsibilities include the management of fixed interest and individual client portfolios and he is a fund manager for the Allan Gray Bond Fund. He was a director of Allan Gray Limited from 1997 to 2006

Rick Menell,Chairman, South Africa and Senior Advisor, Credit Suisse. Rick Menell has had a 35 year career in the mining industry, heading Anglovaal Mining and Teal Exploration & Mining up to 2008. He has previously served as President of the South African Chamber of Mines, as Chairman of the South African Tourism Board and on numerous boards as director, Deputy Chair or Chairman including Harmony Gold, Bateman Engineering, ARM, Avgold, Associated Manganese, Standard Bank Group, Mutual & Federal Insurance, Telkom SA and the Business Trust. He is currently a Non Executive Director of Gold Fields Limited, Sibanye Gold Limited, Rockwell Diamonds Inc and Weir Group plc. He is also Chairman-South Africa and Senior Advisor to Credit Suisse and a Council Member of Business Leadership South Africa. Recently appointed a Trustee of Brand South Africa in the Presidency. In the non-profit area, Rick is currently founding co-Chairman of City Year South Africa Youth Service Organisation, Chairman of the Tourism Enterprise Partnership, Chairman of the Carrick Foundation and Chair of the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. He is a director of the Claude Leon Foundation and the National Business Initiative. He is one of the convenors of the Dinokeng Scenario Project, and was for 12 years a Governor in the mining industry group of the World Economic Forum.

Appointed to the Board in 2015. Thando Mkatshana has more than 20 years of experience in the mining industry. His career started with Anglo American Coal in 1988, where he gained extensive experience working in production at various Anglo American Collieries. He joined Xstrata Coal South Africa (Pty) Ltd in 2003, where he was responsible for the development from feasibility to implementation of the Goedgevonden Colliery (a flagship greenfield project which is a joint venture between ARM Coal (Pty) Ltd and what is now Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty) Ltd). Thando worked for Kalagadi Manganese (Pty) Ltd and AccelorMittal South Africa Limited before joining African Rainbow Minerals Limited in 2011 as Executive: Coal Operations. He was appointed Chief Executive: ARM Coal in 2012 and assumed the additional responsibilities of Chief Executive: ARM Copper in 2015. Thando also sits on mining industry-related boards.

James was educated in Lesotho, and worked in the mining industry from 1970 to 1987. He was the founder member of the NUM 04/12/1982. He bought TEBA Ltd from the mining industry in November 2005, and he also holds the following positions: Owner and Executive Chairman of UBUNTU MINING (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED; Director, Shanduka Group; Chairman, Verimark Holdings Limited from 2005 to date; Former Chairman of Anglo-Gold Ashanti; Former Chairman of the ICEM (International Federation of Chemical,Energy,Mine and General Workers Union; Former Chairman, Masana Petroleum Solutions (Pty); Founder member and Director of Adopt-A-School Foundation; Chairman of Platfields Limited; Chancellor of Lesotho College of Education and a Patron of the National Education Collaboration Trust(South Africa). In 2002 James was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in Social Science by the National University of Lesotho.

Nelson Ndlala began his mining career in the late 80’s as a Learner Official Mining at Gold Fields Training Services. He completed his training and studies and was appointed a Shiftboss in early 1992. In 1996, becamea Mine Overseer; in 1999 he was appointed Business Unit Manager at Driefontein and in 2003, he was transferred to Beatrix as Manager Mining of 2 & 2B shafts. In 2005, he joined Impala Platinum as Minemanager. In 2008 he was appointed General Manager of 6, 7A, 7, 8 shafts and the Open pit. In 2010 he was promoted to Senior General Manager responsible for Group Technical Services and Best Practice. In 2012 he has been appointed as a director onto the Impala Holdings Limited and Two Rivers (Pty) Ltd subsidiary boards. In 2013 Nelson was appointed Executive Mining at the Rustenburg Operations in charge of shafts from 1-10 shafts. In November 2013, Nelson was appointed Head of Operations: Rustenburg. Nelson has various industry certificates. He has an MBL degree from the University of South Africa and a Mining Engineering degree from the University of Johannesburg. Nelson has completed various programs such as: • General Management Program (Harvard Business School, Boston: Massachusetts ) • Mining and the Environment(Lulêa Technical University, Sweden) • Management Advancement Program (Wits Business School, Johannesburg) Nelson is registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ESCA) as Professional Certificated Engineer. He is a member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM). He has served as council member of the Association of Mine Managers of South Africa (AMMSA). He has been elected Vice President in 2012 and the President of the Association in 2013.

Sipho Nkosi’s career has enabled him to develop a depth of experience in the energy and coal sectors both locally and internationally. Sipho is the CEO of Exxaro Resources Limited. Prior to this, Sipho was one of the founders and CEO of Eyesizwe Coal. Prior to Eyesizwe Coal, Sipho was Country Manager of ABB Alstom Power (SA), having previously worked with Anglo Coal and Ingwe. He was Export Marketing Co-ordinator in the international marketing division of Anglo Coal from 1986 to 1991. In 1992 Sipho joined Ingwe as the Marketing Manager responsible for international coal marketing. This position involved extensive travel and provided him with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the coal industry worldwide. Sipho serves on a number of company boards including Sanlam. Sipho is a Past President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and has been serving on the Executive Council of the Chamber since November 2006. Previously he served as Chairman of the Chamber’s Collieries Committee. Sipho holds the following degrees: BCom (University of Zululand), BCom (Hons)(Econ)(Unisa), MBA (University of Massachusetts, Boston) and a Diploma in Marketing Management (Unisa) and in July 2009 he completed the Advanced Management Programme at the University of Oxford in the UK. In November 2012 Sipho was the South African winner in the Master Entrepreneur Category of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Award and represented South Africa at the global awards in Monte Carlo in June 2013. On 18 October 2013 he received the Tinie Louw Award at the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut’s National Congress for his business leadership.

Barend Petersen is a chartered accountant with broad international business experience in mining, finance, auditing, oil industry, energy, government relations, business turnarounds, corporate recovery, consulting and corporate governance. Barend is Executive Chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines and represents the De Beers Family of Companies in South Africa. In the past decade Barend has had a wide involvement in De Beers Family of Companies. He is also a director of De Beers Societè Anonyme. He is a shareholder in Ponahalo Capital who owns a 50% stake in Ponahalo Investments, the black economic empowerment partner of De Beers Consolidated Mines. He is a director of several companies including, Anglo American South Africa, Alexander Forbes Equity Holdings and Curro Holdings. Barend is the Chairman of Sizwe Business Recoveries which he founded in 1998. He was born in Cape Town and was educated in the Western Cape. He studied at UNISA where he obtained a B.Compt (Hons). He qualified as a chartered accountant during 1995.

MR SM PITYANA 
BA (Hons) (Essex), MSc (London); Dtech (Honoris) (Vaal University of Technology)


Sipho Mila Pityana is Chairman of AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. Having joined the board as senior director in February 2007, he is the chairman of the Nominations committees, and a member of the Remuneration and Human Resources and Social, Ethics and Sustainability committees. He was previously the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Mr Pityana has extensive business experience having served in both an executive and non-executive capacity on several JSE listed boards of companies as well as running his own company which he chairs, Izingwe Capital Proprietary Limited. He is Chairman of the JSE listed Onelogix and of Munich Reinsurance of Africa. He also served on the boards of Bytes Technology Group, AFROX, SPESCOM and the Old Mutual Leadership Group, Scaw Metals.

He previously worked as the Executive Director of Nedcor Investment Bank and Managing Director of Nedbank. He is also a director of a number of manufacturing companies including Aberdare Cables. In addition to his private sector track record, Mr Pityana has extensive public sector experience and international exposure.

 He was the first Director General of Department of Labour in a democratic South Africa. As the Foreign Affairs Director General he represented South Africa in various international fora including the United Nations, African Union, Commonwealth and the International Labour Organisation. He was one of the founding members of the governing body of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and Convenor of the South African government delegation to the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC).

Kerwin has 20 years of minerals and energy resource industry experience in Southern and East Africa including being the Head of New Business for De Beers and was a founding director and Executive Chairman of Sunbird Energy Limited (“Sunbird”) in 2011. Sunbird is an ASX-listed (ASX:SNY) gas explorer and developer focused on southern Africa where limited domestic gas supply and growing energy needs have created significant opportunity for the development of large scale energy projects. Kerwin is also Managing Director of Umbono Capital Partners (Pty) Limited (“Umbono”). Umbono is a black-owned natural resources and energy investment and project development company that has been in business for over 17 years with a diverse portfolio of interests across the resources and energy sectors in South Africa, across Africa, Europe and North America. Kerwin was formerly a non-executive director of the South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator (“SADPMR”). 

Before moving to the UK, Laurence Robb was Professor of Economic Geology in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and between 2001-2005, also Director of its Economic Geology Research Institute. He is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. He has worked for over 30 years on many the great mineral districts of the African continent and is currently involved in research on the metallogeny of Myanmar/Burma and also the Western Sahara. He is the author of the text book ‘Introduction to Ore Forming Processes’ that is widely used all over the world. He served a term as President of the Geological Society of South Africa in 1999-2000 and has also been a Vice-President for the African region of the Society of Economic Geologists. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, a Fellow of the Geological Society, a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa and a Chartered Geologist. Together with its co-founders, Ido Lekota, Archie Rantao and Sam Madiba, Laurence helped establish Lerama Resources in 2005 and is currently CEO of the company. For the past decade Lerama has targeted the acid phase of the Bushveld Complex for IOCG style deposits and is currently exploring and evaluating 4 prospecting rights in the eastern Bushveld.  

Mike Rossouw has over 30 years experience in engineering, general and executive management roles in the gold, manganese, titanium, platinum and chrome mining and mineral beneficiation sectors. For the first part of his career Mike was involved in all aspects and disciplines of engineering and then progressively became more involved in other functions such as general management, strategy formulation, risk management, business and organisation reengineering and implementing large scale production facility and information system projects. His academic qualifications include a BSc Engineering from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from the University Brunel UK. He is an executive director of a Global Mining Company and previously a non-executive director of Zimplats. He is the current chairman of the Energy Intensive Users Group of South Africa and the Industry Task Team on Climate Change. Mike served for five years as a government appointed independent director of the National Electricity Regular of South Africa. His area of expertise is in the fields of systems engineering, value engineering, asset management, organisation design, safety and risk management, energy management, large scale project management and business strategy formulation. In 2012 Mike received the premier SANEA ENERGY AWARD in recognition for outstanding and sustained individual contribution to the enhancement of the South African Energy environment.

Jim Rutherford has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking and investment management, both as an institutional investor and analyst.
Between 1997 and 2013, he was a Senior Vice President at Capital Group, one of the world’s largest and longest established investment management companies, with responsibility for investments in the mining & metals industry. Sir John Parker, Chairman of Anglo American, said: “I am delighted to welcome Jim Rutherford to Anglo American’s Board. Jim brings his considerable financial insight from the perspective of the capital markets, combined with his deep strategic understanding of the mining industry. I am sure that Jim’s experience and expertise will bring considerable benefit to our Board.”

Muhammad specialises in Mining Taxation. He has also worked on entities with various energy and natural resources in the tax service line. During his 14 year tenure at KPMG, Muhammad had advised an array of clients on a number of ground-breaking transactions, some of them being the largest in their respective industries. Muhammad has experience in several industries including mining, power, food, financial services, private equity, manufacturing and industrial.  He also advised various clients on in-bound and out-bound investments, corporate re-organisations, assistance with tax objections and settlements, and general tax advisory assistance including tax opinions, advanced tax rulings and a liaison with Revenue officials.  Muhammad’s clients include a number of Private Equity Funds, Financial Institutions, Mining Houses, Parastatals, Large Industrial and Manufacturing concerns, etc.

Appointed to the Board in 2011. Mike Schmidt joined ARM as Executive: Platinum Operations in July 2007 after 13 years with Lonmin Platinum where he was Vice President Limpopo operations at the time he left the company.Prior to that, he was employed by Hartebeestfontein Gold Mining Company. Mike was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer Designate of ARM and an Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 September 2011. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of ARM since 1 March 2012. Qualifications include Mine Managers Certificate, MDP, Pr Cert Eng

Dion Shango was appointed as Southern Africa CEO on 1 July 2015, the first black African to be appointed to the role. Prior to his current appointment Dion acted as Deputy CEO and as Leader of PwC’s Energy, Utilities and Mining (EU&M) Group.
Since being admitted to partnership in 2008, Dion has led engagements on complex and multinational businesses and has serviced a number of large listed clients mostly within the mining industry. He has extensive experience reporting under IFRS and of financial reporting in the mining industry.
In addition to his experience in the mining industry, Dion has also enjoyed exposure to other sectors and industries throughout his career, by virtue of being involved in the audits of companies and organisations such as the South African Reserve Bank, Vodacom and MonteCasino.
In recent years, Dion’s client base has included Exxaro Resources Limited, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited and Sasol Oil, amongst others.
Dion joined PwC in January 2000 after completing his studies at the University of Pretoria (B Com, Financial Accounting).

My name is Jeethen Singh, I am 23 years old (born in October 1992) and in my final year, studying towards a BEng degree in Mining Engineering, at the University of Pretoria. I hail from a small town called Ladysmith, in Kwa-Zulu Natal. I matriculated from the Ladysmith Secondary School in 2010. The subjects that I had taken included Physical Science, Mathematics, Engineering Graphics and Design and Civil Technology. Some of my hobbies are fishing and camping, playing cricket, reading and watching soccer. I have a very outspoken personality which allows me to communicate easily with different people. I work well as both a follower and as a leader. I am intuitive and resourceful when faced with challenges, which led to engineering being my choice of study. I had chosen mining engineering as a career path because of the challenges and problem solving opportunities experienced in this field of work, I function best when under pressure, and mining provides exactly this. I enjoy getting my hands dirty and roughing it out, and therefore the mining industry was a great attraction to me. Pushing myself out of complacency and my comfort zone is what I always endeavor towards.

A geologist with extensive experience in identifying and executing mineral projects throughout Africa. Born, raised and resident of Zambia. Owner of geological consultancy Tangila Exploration (Mauritius) Ltd. and founding Director of Infinity Minerals & Resources (Zambia) Ltd, a greenfield copper exploration project currently being developed under joint-venture with Rio Tinto Mining & Exploration. Mr. Stacey holds a BSc in Exploration and Resource Geology from Cardiff University, Wales, and is a member of the Geological Society of London and the Geological Society of South Africa.

Peter initiates the design and development of systems and processes and services to ensure sustainable coal delivery, and to shape the organisation within the external socio economic environment as a responsible player in the coal mining industry.  Maintaining Sasol and Sasol Mining’s image with all stakeholders, but specifically the DMR (Department Minerals Resources), the local government and the local communities are of utmost importance.  Not only must growth opportunities be identified and evaluated, but future scenarios that may play out in the organisation’s environment must be identified and evaluated and utilised / mitigated, all of which fall under Peter’s main responsibility including the development and execution of the company’s long term strategies.

Rob has vast experience in mining, specialising in mining finance. He started his career as a chartered accountant, becoming a partner of Ernst & Whinney before leaving in 1986 to co-found Rhombus Exploration Limited. Since then, he has been involved in the mining industry worldwide and has held executive and non-executive directorships in companies listed in South Africa, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. He has participated in the evaluation and development of several new mining projects and companies including Rhovan, Ticor Titanium, Pangea GoldFields Limited, Southern Mining Corporation Limited (Corridor Sands), Metorex Ltd and Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Limited. Rob is currently Chairman of Pangea Exploration (Pty) Ltd which company provides information and analysis to Private Equity finance within Africa.

Corné Strydom is the General Manager to Tau Lekoa Gold Mine. He received his BEng(Mining) Cum Laude from the University of Pretoria in 2001 before moving into, the then, Anglo American Gold Division mining graduate trainee programme from 2002-2005. He enjoyed a short stint in consulting before joining Anglo American Platinum Union Section in 2006 as a Planning Analyst and later became Chief Mine Planner and finally MRM Manager. Corné moved back into production as General Manager in 2013 with Tau Lekoa Gold Mine. He is a registered Professional Engineer and also member of AMMSA and SAIMM. He is married to Mari and together they have been blessed with Joshua and Danile. Corné is a keen fly fisherman and bow hunter but most of all a proud miner!

Bernard Swanepoel is the chairman of The Joburg Indaba and The Junior Indaba. Bernard holds BSc (Min Eng) and BCom (Hons) degrees and started his career with Gengold in 1983, culminating in his appointment as general manager of Beatrix Mines in 1993. After joining Randgold in 1995 as MD of the Harmony mine, Bernard became CEO of Harmony from 1997 to 2007. Bernard is a non-executive board member of Sanlam and ARM and founding partner of To The Point Growth Specialists. He was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Village Main Reef Limited on 8 August 2013.

He is very actively involved in many aspects of the minerals industry and since early 2012 has been a partner in African Mineral Exploration and Development (AMED), a Luxembourg-registered natural resources fund, which continues to look for good mineral exploration investment opportunities in Africa. David is a member of the Geological Society of London and of the American-based Society of Economic Geologists. He was born in St Helens in the U.K and attended Cowley Grammar School in St Helens before graduating with B.Sc. (Honours) in geology at the University of Reading, U.K., in 1975. He subsequently obtained his doctorate from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1980, before joining Impala Platinum Mines in Rustenburg. In 1981, David returned to university life with a tenured research appointment at the University of Pretoria, where his research was focussed on the Bushveld Complex. He has written a number of publications in international geological journals and, in 1988, he was awarded NASA research funding to support his sabbatical year as visiting professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, U.S.A. In 1990, David left university life to develop mineral exploration ventures partnership with Rudolph de Bruin. The two have now worked closely together in the African mineral sector for about 25 years.

Admitted as a partner in 1998. Anton leads PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Risk Assurance practice in Africa. He is also the Clients and Markets leader for the Africa firm and serves on the Africa firms Manco. He also served as PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Internal Audit Services leader between 2004 and 2009. He has nearly 30 years of experience in corporate governance, risk management and internal audit, and has worked with a range of local and global clients. He served as a board member of PwC’s Africa Governance and South African Governance Board between 2011 and 2014, and is a member of the firm’s Business School Board. He is a full member of the King Committee on Governance in South Africa and chairs the Internal Audit Task Team.
He is Chairman of the South Africa Corporate Governance Network. Anton is the immediate Global Chairman of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). He is the first individual from the African continent and the first South African to have lead the world’s largest internal audit organization (185 000 members). Previously, Anton was The IIA Global Board’s Senior Vice Chairman and has served as IIA Global Vice Chairman of professional practices and of professional certifications.

Piet has over 25 years of industry experience. He started out as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria, and then joined the Reserve Bank as an economic analyst. He became a portfolio manager at Allan Gray Investment Counsel in 1991 and in 1995 he moved to Investec Asset Management. Piet founded RECM in 2003 and is the company’s Chairman.

Harith invests in and develops infrastructure projects across the African continent. Headquartered in Sandton, South Africa, Harith has representative offices in Ghana, Tunisia and London. The sectors we are actively invested in are broad and range from communication, technology, transport, energy, water and sanitation.

Within Harith, Erik is responsible for the existing energy portfolio as well as new acquisitions in the energy sector.

Prior to joining Harith, Erik headed business development at Cennergi – an independent power producer joint venture between Exxaro Resources and Tata Power. Erik also has significant experience as an independent business development consultant specialising in growth and energy for companies such as Sasol, Standard Bank, General Electric, Royal Bafokeng Holdings, Harmony Gold, Deloitte, the PSG Group and EnBW (German utility).

His project experience includes:

1. Mid- and downstream gas infrastructure projects;
2. Power generation projects for utilities as well as captive power for large scale users (coal, gas, hydro, solar and wind);
3. Port and rail projects;
4. Power transmission and distribution projects;
5. Water management; and
6. Biofuels.