Welcome to Wiki Mzansi

Faith is currently the CEO of WDB Investment Holdings. Before assuming this role in late 2013, she worked for Standard Bank in its Corporate and Investment Bank division (“CIB”) for 12 years, the last six years of which as Head of Corporate Banking. Faith held other senior positions in Standard Bank, including Head of Trade… read more »

Allan is a qualified chartered accountant and has acted in various positions in the field of commerce since 1975, at which time he was the Chief Executive of African Bank Ltd, the only black-owned bank in South Africa at the time. He has since practised as a chartered accountant consultant, acting mainly in the non-profit… read more »

Philip has practiced as a private dental practitioner in Rustenburg since qualifying as a dentist in 1977. Since 1978, he has served on the boards of various companies involved in both the medical and property industries, such as Peglerae Investments, Peglerae Hospital, Rustenburg Hospital Properties, Rustkor Investments and Rustkor Properties. He has been an investor… read more »

Dirk obtained his BCom Law and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria and subsequently completed his articles at Weavind & Weavind Incorporated where he remained as practicing attorney focusing on general litigation until 2011. During 2011 he was appointed by G4S Secure Solutions as the national legal advisor tasked with the general legal and… read more »

Mr. WL Venter obtained a BCom Accounting & Honours degree at the University of Pretoria in 2006 and completed his articles at Deloitte Pretoria qualifying as a CA(SA) in 2009. In 2010 Mr. WL Venter was appointed as the Managing Director of Cosmos Management the property portfolio and financial managers for Safari Investments overseeing the… read more »

Kiki is the CEO of Pace Construction Proprietary Limited (“Pace”). He has a wealth of experience and knowledge of all facets of the construction industry and has been involved in the construction of shopping centres, high-rise residential apartments, higher educational facilities, light and heavy industrial buildings, commercial buildings, food processing plants, recreational facilities, filling stations,… read more »

Francois has been practicing as an architect since 1965 and has been involved with project implementation and management in the property industry in the categories of educational institutions, health facilities and all facets of commercial projects. In 1990, he launched a division for project development. As a property developer, he has completed a private hospital,… read more »

Elize Rogers has been the Managing Director of Arxo Logistics, a company that was established to develop the logistics for the Tharisa Mine, since 2009. She is responsible for the overall management of the logistics and transport services provided by Arxo Logistics to the Group’s operations. Elize has over 30 years’ experience in logistics. Prior… read more »

Derek Baker has been with the group since 2011 and is responsible for the overall management of the safety, health and environment portfolio for the Group. Derek is a qualified mining engineer with over 35 years of experience in the mining industry, including 15 years in the legislative environment of the Department of Mineral Resources…. read more »

Thabang Maluke has been an Executive Director at Tharisa Minerals since April 2009 and is responsible for human resources and stakeholders engagement in South Africa. He has over 24 years of experience in the mining industry. He previously worked for Goldfields, DRD, and was head of human resources at Barplats.

Hans van Wyk has been the Consulting Metallurgist to Tharisa Minerals since September 2011 and is responsible for overall management of all processing, smelting and beneficiation operations at the Tharisa Mine. He has over 15 years’ experience in the recovery of chrome and PGM, having worked on a number of chrome and PGM concentrator operations.

Zhong Liang Hong is a Chinese national with 33 years’ experience in commodity trading. Representing Fujian Wuhang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd and Hong Kong HeYi Mining Resources Company, Zhong has a strong understanding of analysis and forecasting of commodity markets and end user demand. He started his career in 1980 at the Baosteel Group. In… read more »

Johanna Cheng a Canadian national is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, Canada. She has more than 20 years’ experience in business development, investment and management and is the General Manager (Energy) of NWS Infrastructure Management Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of NWS. Before joining NWS, Joanna… read more »

Roger Davey has more than 30 years’ operational experience at senior management and director level in the mining industry in South America, Africa and Europe. Previous positions include being the Senior Mining Engineer at NM Rothschild (London) in the Mining and Metals project finance team; Director, Vice president and General Manager of Minorco (AngloGold) subsidiaries… read more »

Antonios Djakouris is a qualified chartered accountant and has over 30 years’ experience as a manager and director, having served in a number of posts with the Bank of Cyprus, including internal audit, credit review and retail banking, and as group general manager in charge of operations. From 2003 to 2009, he directed the Bank… read more »