BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Keith Spencer (72)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director (Chairman)
Appointed: 8 October 2007
BSc Eng (Mining)
Committee Membership: SHEQC (Chairman), Nomination (Chairman)
Significant directorships: None
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Keith is a mining engineer with 48 years’ practical experience. Since 1986, Keith has held senior positions at some of the largest gold mines in the world including:
- Managing director of Driefontein Consolidated
- Chairman and managing director of Deelkraal Gold Mine
- Director on the boards of gold mines belonging to Gold Fields, South Africa
- Operations director of Metorex
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Dawn Earp (60)
Independent Non-Executive Director
Appointed:: 21 September 2021
BCom BAcc, CA(SA) Committee Membership: Audit and Risk (Chairperson), SHEQC, Nomination
Significant Directorships
- Arcelor Mittal South Africa
- Impala Platinum Holdings
- Truworths International
- South African Guide-dogs Association non-profit organisation
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Dawn previously held the position of financial director, both at Implats and Rand Refineries. She has served as a non-executive director of various private and listed companies
Experience
- Finance and accounting
- Risk management
- Governance and regulation
- Business and strategy
- Leadership
- Taxation
Thabo Mosololi (53)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 9 December 2013
BCom (Hons), CA(SA)
Committee Membership: Social and Ethics Committee (Chairman), Audit and Risk, Remuneration, Nomination
Significant Directorships
- MFT Investment Holdings
- Truworths Limited
- New Season Investment Fund
- MalaMala Game Reserve and Roadgrass Investments
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Thabo brings a wealth of experience in financial management, corporate governance and audit to the board. He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 1994. Since then, he has served on various boards as a member and chairman of audit committees in the resources and other industries in South Africa.
Charles Needham (68)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 17 July 2019
Articles of Clerkship-Accounting, Dip in Mining Taxation
Committee: Audit and Risk, Remuneration, Nomination
Significant Directorships
- Alphamin Resources Corporation
- Divitiae Holdings Limited
- Imagined Earth Proprietary Limited
- METPROP Proprietary Limited
- MetQuip Proprietary Limited
- Orpheus Property Holdings Proprietary Limited
- Unit 8 Tradewinds Proprietary Limited (Company is dormant)
- Alphamin Bisie Mining Proprietary Limited
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Charles is chairman of Alphamin Resources Corporation (listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange). His previous experience includes 31 years at Metorex and its mining operations in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He progressively held the positions of group accountant, financial director and ultimately chief executive officer of Metorex.
Yvonne Themba (57)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 17 July 2019
BA, MBA
Committee Membership: Remuneration (Chairperson), Social and Ethics, Nomination
Significant Directorships
- Adopt-a-School Foundation non-profit organisation
- Canadoce Investments Close Corporation
- Bo Themba Projects Proprietary Limited
- eLogistics Portal Proprietary Limited
- Pfortner Holdings Proprietary Limited
- Xerosystems Proprietary Limited
- Energy Mobility Education Trust (EMET)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Yvonne is the executive director of BoThemba Projects. She was previously responsible for human capital at Phembani Group and Shanduka Group. She headed the group corporate communications department at African Life Assurance Limited and the CSI and corporate communications department at Sanlam. Prior to that, she was deputy director of the Life Officers’ Association.
Cobus Loots (44)
Executive Director, CEO
Appointed: 26 August 2009
CA(SA), CFA®, Charterholder
Committee: SHEQC
Significant directorships: None
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Cobus has many years of experience in the African mining sector. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte & Touche in South Africa. He has been a director of Pan African since 2009, serving as financial director from 2013 until his appointment as chief executive officer on 1 March 2015.
Deon Louw (60)
Financial Director
Appointed: 1 March 2015
CA (SA), CFA® Charterholder, PGD (Tax Law),H-Dip (Tax Law), AMCT (UK)
Committee: Social and Ethics
Significant directorships: None
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Deon has extensive finance and business experience, which includes investment banking, advisory and business administration in the finance and mining sectors. As a founding member of Investec Bank’s emerging market finance team, he was involved in financing mining transactions in sub-Saharan Africa for more than a decade. He fulfilled the roles of chief financial officer of Shanduka Coal, financial director of Sentula Mining Limited, director of Resource Finance Advisers and head of resource structured finance at Investec Bank.