BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Keith Spencer (69)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director (Chairman)
Appointed: 8 October 2007
BSc Eng (Mining)
Committee: Audit, Remuneration, SHEQC (Chairman)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Keith is a qualified mining engineer with 48 years’ practical mining experience.Since 1986, Keith has held senior positions in some of the largest gold mines in the world including the positions of:
- 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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Hester Hickey (65)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 12 April 2012
CA(SA) BCompt (Hons)
Committee: Audit (Chairperson), SHEQC
Significant Directorships
- Northam Platinum Limited
- Cashbuild Limited
- Barloworld Limited
- African Dawn Capital Limited
(resigned on 31 August 2019)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Hester worked at AngloGold Ashanti, initially as group internal audit manager and later as executive officer: head of risk. Prior to this she worked at Ernst & Young and Liberty Life and was acting head of internal audit at Transnet. In her early career she lectured at the University of Witwatersrand, was a partner at Ironside Greenwood and was the national technical and training manager at BDO Spencer Steward. Hester has also previously served as the chairperson of SAICA.
Thabo Mosololi (49)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 9 December 2013
BCom (Hons), CA(SA)
Committee: Audit, Remuneration, Social and Ethics (Chairman)
Significant Directorships
- Chief operating officer of Sun International (for the South African operations)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Thabo brings a wealth of experience in financial management, corporate governance and audit, having 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. He continues to operate MFT Investment Holdings, a family owned investment company strategically placed to capitalise on BBBEE investment opportunities.
Charles Needham (65)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 17 July 2019
Articles of Clerkship-Accounting, Dip in Mining Taxation
Committee: Audit, Remuneration
Significant Directorships
- Alphamin Resources Corporation
- Divitiae Holdings Limited
- Imagined Earth Proprietary Limited
- Kinsenda Copper Company SARL
- METPROP Proprietary Limited
- MetQuip Proprietary Limited
- Orpheus Property Holdings Proprietary
Limited - Ruashi Holdings Proprietary Limited
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Charles is currently the chairman of Kinsenda Mining Company and Alphamin Resource Corporation (listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange), and consults to Metorex, a subsidiary of the Jinchuan Group. Previous experience includes 31 years at Metorex, with a spread of mining operations in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Charles progressively held the positions of group accountant, financial director and ultimately chief executive officer, while at Metorex
Yvonne Themba (54)
IndependEnt Non-Executive Director
Appointed: 17 July 2019
BA, MBA
Committee: Remuneration (Chairperson), Social and Ethics
Significant Directorships
- Adopt-A-School Foundation non-profit organisations
- Canadoce Investments Close Corporation
- Bo Themba Projects Proprietary Limited
- Clique Marketing Proprietary Limited
- Pfortner Solutions Proprietary Limited
- Mathomo Packhouse Proprietary Limited
- Talamati Asset Managers Proprietary Limited
- Talamati Capital Managers Proprietary Limited
- Jula Investments Proprietary Limited
- Varsbegin Proprietary Limited
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Yvonne Themba is currently 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 corporate social investment and corporate communications department at Sanlam. Prior to that she was deputy director of the Life Officers’ Association.
Cobus Loots (41)
Executive Director, CEO
Appointed: 26 August 2009
CA(SA), CFA®, Charterholder
Committee: SHEQC
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. Prior to joining Pan African Resources, he held the title of managing director of Shanduka Resources. Shanduka Resources was a mining investment business and part of the Shanduka Group, which was headed by Cyril Ramaphosa prior to his move to the South African government. He has been a director of Pan African Resources since 2009. Cobus served as financial director of Pan African Resources from 2013 until his appointment as chief executive officer on 1 March 2015.
Deon Louw (57)
Financial Director
Appointed: 1 March 2015
CA (SA), CFA® Charterholder, PGD (Tax Law),H-Dip (Tax Law), AMCT (UK)
Committee: Social and Ethics
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Deon has extensive finance and business experience, which includes investment banking, advisory and business administration in the finance and mining sectors. He was a founding member of Investec Bank’s emerging market finance team and was involved in the financing of 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.
OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Bert van den Berg
Chief Operating Officer
(BSc) Mining Engineering, Mine Managers Certificate of Competency
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
17 years’ mining-related experience
Niel Symington
Executive: Shared Services
B.Com Accounting, AGA(SA), Professional Accountant (SA)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
16 years’ mining-related experience
Barry Naicker
Group ESG Manager
MEng Mineral Resource Management (Wits), Grad Dip Engineering (MRM), BSc (Hons) Geology and Economic Geology
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
19 years’ mining-related experience
Lazarus Motshwaiwa
General Manager: Evander Mines
Diploma in Mining Engineering, BTech Mining Engineering
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
21 years’ mining-related experience
Jan Thirion
General Manager: Barberton Mines
National and Higher National Diplomas in Metalliferous Mining, B Tech Mining
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
38 years’ mining-related experience
Oriel Shikwambana
Operations Manager: Elikhulu
BSc (Chem Eng), MBL
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
20 years’ mining-related experience
Mandla Ndlozi
Group SHEQC Manager
NADSM (Unisa), EIA (PU for CHE), MDP (GIBS), SAMTRAC (NOSA), Integrated SHEQ Management (NWU)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
21 years’ mining-related experience
Jonathan Irons
Group Consulting Metallurgist
NHD Extractive metallurgy, MDP Business Administration and Management
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
40 years’ mining-related experience
Hendrik Pretorius
GROUP MRM MANAGER
(BSc Hons) Geology, Graduate Diploma in Mineral Resource Management, Professional member of SACNASP and the Geological Society of South Africa
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
17 years’ mining-related experience
Marileen Kok
Group Financial Manager
BCom Honours Accounting, CA(SA)
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
14 years’ mining-related experience