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Jeffrey Rapoo (12 years on the board of Thabex) (Non-executive Chairman)
(Chairman of Audit and Remuneration Committees)
He has several years experience in financial management and was a past Executive - Finance at North West Transport Investments (Pty) Ltd and formerly Acting Managing Director at the Mpumalanga Development Corporation of the Mpumalanga Province and is also a director of Saminco Limited. Mr Rapoo has considerable experience in the field of project development and financial administration. |
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Marius Welthagen (16 years on the board of Thabex) (Chief Executive)
He has 32 years of mining experience. Mr Welthagen is a qualified mining engineer and specialised in mineral economics (MEng (Mining), MPhil Mineral Economics, BCom Hons (Economics)). He was employed at Kloof Gold Mine, Greenside Coal Mine in the Gold Fields Group as Mining Engineer, at the Minerals Bureau of South Africa as mineral economist and as a gold and platinum analyst for a leading stockbroker on the JSE. He is also chairman of Saminco Limited, a mining investment company. He was a founder member of SA Chrome and Alloys Ltd (formerly SouthWits Ltd) and Samroc Ltd (Formerly MangaChem Ltd). |
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Neels Engelbrecht (new appointment) (Executive Director)
He has 25 years experience in the diamond industry. He was also a rough diamond dealer in The Kingdom of Lesotho. He is the co-founder and Director of Angel Diamonds (Pty) Ltd that was registered in 1992 in Lesotho. Mr Engelbrecht has been actively involved in the mining of the Kolo Kimberlite since 1992. Since 2001 he was instrumental in the negotiations with the Government of Lesotho in obtaining the Prospecting License and submitting the application for the Mining License. |
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Masankisi Kamwanga (new appointment) (Financial Director)
He has a vast experience in management, lecturing and consulting related to finance, information and communication technology. He has a MSc and M.Comm. and is a SAP certified consultant. He is a consultant and lecturer on topics related to Finance, Commerce & Information Technology in South Africa & DRC (Provincial Government, ISIPA, VISTA, RAU, UJ and CUT). He was also the financial advisor of the Minister of Labour and procurement advisor of the Minister of Finance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
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Jan Kruger (1 year on the board) (Independent Non-executive Director)(Member of Audit Committee)
Dr Kruger is a senior lecturer in Corporate Finance at the UNISA SBL. He has a PhD in Computer Science. He has been a professional investor and equity analyst for many years. He has extensive experience as a consultant and as a lecturer in Mathematics, Operations Research, Finance, Computer Science, Management and Statistics in industry at Universities. He presented 19 conference papers and published 10 research publications on Machine Learning, Data mining and Reliability Theory. He is the co-editor of two first year mathematics text books. Jan did his PhD “Finding the causal structure from the correlation matrix” in Computer Science at Wits and is currently studying for a DBL. |
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David Reid (10 years on the board of Thabex) (Non-executive Director)
Prof Reid has been with the University of Cape Town since 1972 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. He has been a member of the Geological Society of South Africa since 1973 and has twice been awarded their Jubilee Medal in recognition of published research in South African geology and geochemistry. David Reid has published, lectured and consulted widely on topics related to economic geology and geochemistry, with particular emphasis on mineralisation in Namaqualand, Bushmanland, Namibia and the Bushveld Complex. |
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Anton Roux (12 years on board the of Thabex) (Non-executive Director)
He is a deciduous fruit producer on the family farm, La Colline, in the Franschhoek Valley in the Western Cape Province and is a director of Saminco Limited. He has been associated with the group since 1981 as director of SA Mineral Investments (Pty) Ltd. He is a graduate of the University of Stellenbosch holding a B Agric degree. |
