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Reneiloe Masemene, a qualified attorney, joined DRDGOLD in January 2009 as legal advisor. She was appointed Senior Legal Advisor in October 2011 and prescribed officer of Ergo in June 2012, and then Group Legal Counsel in August 2014. From March 2016, she also serves as Company Secretary

Riaan Davel has close to 19 years of experience in the mining industry, including 17 years in professional services, mostly in the African mining sector. His experience includes assurance and advisory services, including support and training on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), to clients and teams across Africa. Riaan was audit partner at KPMG for… read more »

Niël Pretorius has two decades of experience in the mining industry. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer designate of DRDGOLD on 21 August 2008 and Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2009. Having joined the company on 1 May 2003 as legal advisor, he was promoted to Group Legal Counsel on 1 September 2004 and… read more »

Mrs Mnyango was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the company on 1 December 2016. Mrs Mnyango began her career as a prosecutor for the KaNgwane homeland, before becoming a legal advisor for the Eastern Cape Development Corporation. She has held directorships on company boards including Gijima, EOH Mthombo (Proprietary) Limited, AllPay Eastern Cape… read more »

James Turk was appointed non-executive director in October 2004 and, in 2011, met the JSE Listing Requirements to be an independent director. He is founder and director of GoldMoney Network Limited, also known as GoldMoney.com, an online provider of physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion to buyers worldwide and operator of a digital gold… read more »

Edmund Jeneker was appointed non-executive director in November 2007. He trained as an accountant and has gained experience in finance, taxation, business strategy and executive management at Grant Thornton SA, SwissRe, World Bank Competiveness Fund and Deloitte SA over a period of more than 20 years. He previously served as a member of the Provincial… read more »

Johan Holtzhausen was appointed independent non-executive director on 25 April 2014. He has more than 42 years’ experience in the accounting profession, having served as a senior partner at KPMG, and held the highest Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States), Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and Sarbanes-Oxley Act accreditation required to service clients listed on stock… read more »

Geoffrey Campbell was appointed a non-executive director in 2002, a senior independent non-executive director in December 2003 and non-executive chairman in October 2005. A qualified geologist, he has worked on gold mines in Wales and Canada. He spent 15 years as a stockbroker before becoming a fund manager, managing the Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Gold… read more »

Charles Boles was a partner in the corporate finance division of PricewaterhouseCoopers for five years, where after he joined Investec Bank’s corporate finance and private equity division. At Investec he was instrumental in the establishment and subsequent listing on the JSE of First SA Food Holdings Ltd. He served as a non-executive director on First… read more »

After serving articles at Ernst & Young, Theunis joined Ford SA as assistant treasurer. From there he joined Huysamer Stals stockbroking firm (thereafter sold to ABN AMRO) where he later headed up research. Theunis is the founder and managing director of Calibre Capital (Pty) Ltd and a founding shareholder of RECM & Calibre Ltd, a… read more »

Akhter completed his BCom at the University of Durban, Westville and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1978. He has extensive experience at board level.

Dinga Mncube has over 20 years’ executive experience in forestry, timber processing and the paper and pulp industry, has chaired various forestry bodies and has been a board member of Sappi Southern Africa. Dinga Mncube played a leading role in the revival of Project Grow, an award-winning enterprise development programme at Sappi, and drove Sappi’s… read more »

George Nakos is currently employed as group corporate finance executive of Imperial Holdings Ltd. From 2000 to 2015, George Nakos was employed in various senior corporate finance positions by Investec Bank and global coordinator of the natural resources corporate finance team.

Lou has more than 40 years’ experience in technical management as well as in the business field, where he has held various executive directorships. He participated in the unbundling of the Boumat group in 1999, where he was the CEO, and has also served on the board and council of SEIFSA. He consults to the… read more »

René completed her BCom (Hons) degree at UJ in 1989 and her MBA at Wits Business School in 1999. She joined the group in 1997 as HR executive and has been a member of the executive committee since 1999. She was appointed as chairperson of the shared services unit in 2004 and became CEO thereof… read more »