Board of directors

Brent Williams | Independent non-executive chairman

LLM, Harvard Law School

Brent Williams holds an LLM from Harvard University Law School and has extensive experience in all aspects of South African corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. He also advises on broad-based black economic empowerment transactions. Williams began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Y Ebrahim & Co., later becoming an Associate and, subsequently, a Director, a position he held following Y Ebrahim & Co.’s absorption into Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. In 2011, Williams was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, the first of the top five law firms to appoint a black CEO. He was appointed chairman of Sephaku Holdings in May 2012.

Dr Lelau Mohuba | Chief Executive Officer

MB ChB (University of Natal, now Nelson Mandela School of Medicine)

Lelau is a co-founder and former chairman of Sephaku Holdings. Lelau started his medical career in private practice at the Mankweng Township in 1983. His commercial experience includes holding the position of chairman and chief executive officer of Shikisha Tyre and Rubber (Proprietary) Limited, a JV with Goodyear Holdings Limited, as well as co-founding Kiba Investment Holdings (Proprietary) Limited, a mining beneficiation company. Prior to joining Sephaku Holdings, he was an executive director of Boynton and a founder and the chairman of Lekgotla Investments (Proprietary) Limited, both of which are platinum exploration companies. He also acts as a coordinator of health professionals engaged in business activities in Limpopo Province. Lelau has historically acted as the chairman of the Council for Lebowa Nursing Colleges, special advisor to the Lebowa Government Minister of Health, the head of the World Health Organization in the Northern Province and the chairman of the General Practitioners Forum and the National Medical and Dental Association in the Northern Province. He was the first Chairman of the company. Lelau stepped down from the role of Executive Chairman of Sephaku Holdings in May 2012, when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer.

Neil Crafford-Lazarus | Financial Director

Chartered Accountant (South Africa), BCompt (Honours) (University of South Africa)

Neil started his career in mining finance when he joined Anglo American Corporation as a tax advisor in 1988. In 1990 he joined Gencor and held senior management positions in taxation, business development and corporate finance through the Gencor unbundling and listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange. In 1998, he joined Xstrata SA (Proprietary) Limited as Chief Financial Officer and was appointed Financial Director in 1999. At Xstrata he was involved in the rationalization of the group's South African chrome and vanadium operations, the formation of the Gemini Chrome Production Joint Venture with Samancor, the rationalization of Duiker Mining Limited into Xstrata Coal as part of the group's London listing, the formation of a Pooling and Sharing Venture with Merafe (formerly SA Chrome) and the establishment of the Mototolo Platinum Joint Venture with Anglo Platinum and Kagiso. In October 2005 he joined Platmin as Chief Financial Officer in anticipation of the company's simultaneous listing on TSX and on AIM, a position that he held until May 31, 2007 when the company's first set of results as a listed company and annual report was issued. He joined Sephaku Holdings on 1 June 2007 and was appointed CEO in May 2008. He assumed the position of Financial Director in May 2012.

Shibe Matjiu | ISD Director Executive

Certification in Mining and Minerals (Wits), MA (Medical Social Work) (University of Pretoria), BA (Social Work) (University of the North)

Shibe has extensive experience as a professional community and social worker having practised for 16 years in both government and the private sectors. Her previous experience includes being a director of Boynton, a subsidiary of the AIM and TSX listed Platmin, managing director of SM2 Social and Training Consultants, where she was involved in training on government developmental projects, provincial director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa and working on the establishment of Disability Desks in the office of the deputy president to address the needs of the disabled in South Africa. She is a member of South African Women in Mining and the Business Women Association and a director of Tshilo Mining Ltd.

Modilati Gustav Mahlare | Independent Non-Executive Director

BComm (Accounting), BCompt (Honours)

Modilati joined National Sorghum Breweries in July 1992 as a financial controller and internal auditor and was later promoted to the position of financial manager. He was employed by Pricewaterhouse Coopers from July 1995 to April 2007 as a senior manager . He joined SEMA Integrated Risk Solutions in May 2007 as a director. Modilati has a wealth of experience in internal audit, corporate governance, risk management and management consulting.

Pieter Fourie | Non-Executive Director

BCom (Accounting), Executive Development Program (PRISM) for Global Leaders (Switzerland)

Pieter has extensive experience in the cement industry, having been the marketing director of Blue Circle (subsequently acquired by Lafarge SA), the managing director of the cement business unit of Lafarge SA and lastly strategic development director for Africa based at Lafarge head office in France. Pieter's role at Blue Circle included sales, distribution and marketing and he was primarily responsible for leading Blue Circle from a legal cartel into a competitive environment. He was promoted to managing director of the cement business unit at Lafarge SA, at that time a company producing cement of 1.7 million tons per annum. Pieter subsequently accepted an assignment at Lafarge's head office, in a strategic development role aimed at integrating newly acquired business in Africa into Lafarge's portfolio and identifying new business opportunities.

Rudolph de Bruin | Non-Executive Director

BComm (University of the Free State - cum laude), LLB (Rand Afrikaans University - cum laude)

Rudolph practised as an advocate at the Pretoria Bar from 1977 to 1989. Since then he has concentrated on finding, acquiring and developing mineral exploration and mining projects in various African countries. He was a founder member of the Platmin group. During this period he focused on building Platmin into a credible platinum explorer and producer. His role was to engineer the acquisition of mineral projects. Before 2004 he supervised the entering into of more than 300 agreements with mineral rights holders (mostly farmers, but also other mining companies like Anglo American Platinum Corporation Limited, Rustenburg Minerals and Lonmin PLC). With the advent of the new MPRDA in May 2004, he supervised the conversion of Platmin's rights to new order rights and the application of new order prospecting rights. He was also involved in the various fund raisings done by the group in the United Kingdom and North American markets. By 2006, Platmin had reached maturity and moved into the development of a number of platinum mines. It also listed on the TSX and AIM. He sold his Platmin interest in 2006 and co-founded the Sephaku group. During this period he established Sephaku's flagship projects as well as the companies to which Sephaku is currently the BEE partner.

Dr Gil Mahlati | Non-Executive Director

MB ChB (University of Natal), Fellow of College of Surgeons (SA) and Clinical Fellow in Liver Surgery (King's College Hospital-London)

Gil is a surgeon who specialized in liver transplant surgery in Cape Town and London. After three years in private practice, in Pretoria, he entered the business arena as a medical director of Primecure Clinics and two years later joined Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu as managing director of Meeg Strategic Investments, where he invested in healthcare, IT and education sectors respectively. He set up a small medium enterprise private equity fund and participated in the first empowerment venture with trade unions in Netcare Limited. He moved from banking and private equity to life insurance, health risk management, employee benefits and administration when he joined the Channel Group as executive director and served as chairman of Channel Life Namibia and the Health Monitor Group. In 2004, he became chief operating officer of Amabubesi Healthcare (Proprietary) Limited, a company chaired by Bulelani Ngcuka. Since then he has participated in the empowerment consortium that partnered with Old Mutual Plc, Nedbank Group Limited and Mutual and Federal Insurance Company Limited. He also participated in the Aspen Pharmacare empowerment transaction. In 2006, he co-founded Vuwa with Bulelani Ngcuka.

Moss Ngoasheng | Non-Executive Director

BA Hons (Industrial Sociology) M.Phil (Development Studies)(Sussex)

Moss became an ANC activist at the age of 19. In 1978, at the age of 21, he was jailed for his ANC activities spending seven years as a political prisoner on Robben Island. His close contact with the ANC leadership during this period shaped his political and economic thinking. He obtained a degree in economics and politics through the University of South Africa in 1984. On his release from prison in 1985, Ngoasheng returned to Polokwane where he played an active role in the United Democratic Front. In 1995, Thabo Mbeki, then deputy president of South Africa, asked Ngoasheng to become his Economic Adviser. Ngoasheng placed his Safika Holdings shares in trust and moved to the heart of Government. When Mbeki was elected president in 1999, Ngoasheng became the President's Economic Advisor .In June 2000 he elected not to renew his contract in order to play a more active role in Safika Holdings, which he founded with Vuli Cuba in 1994, where he is currently the executive chairman. He is also chairman of the board of the Coega Development Corporation and a member of numerous other boards including that of South African Breweries Limited and Dimension Data plc.

Dr David Twist | Alternate Director

BSc Hons (Geology) PhD (Geology)

David completed his doctorate studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England in 1980, where after he joined Impala Platinum Holdings Limited for two years. He then joined the research team at the University of Pretoria and specialized on the Bushveld complex. In 1988, he enjoyed a sabbatical year as visiting professor at the University of New Mexico. From 1990 he joined Rudolph de Bruin and together they concentrated on mineral exploration opportunities in Africa. He was a founder member of Platmin and was the CEO until 2006 when he stepped down to focus on new mineral exploration opportunities with Sephaku Holdings. David is a registered member of the South African Council of Natural Scientific Professions, a member of the Geological Society of London and a member of the American-based Society of Economic Geologists.

Jan Wessels | Alternate Director

B.Juris (North West University), LLB (University of South Africa)

Jan completed his articles with Adams & Adams and has been in private practice since 1979. He was a founding partner of the firm Truter & Wessels and senior partner of that firm since 1987. After the amalgamation of the firm with Couzyn, Hertzog & Horak Inc in 2000, he became the head of the commercial department. Jan is responsible for legal advice and the contractual arrangements of the Sephaku group.

Jennifer Bennette | Alternate Director

Jennifer matriculated in 1980 at Cambridge High, East London. From 1980 to date, she was employed by several firms of attorneys as a Para-legal and her career path has progressed to company secretary. She attends to all the company secretarial work, mineral rights searches, sub-divisions of farms, servitudes and all the administrative work related thereto in the Group. Jennifer is also currently a director of Bubesi Investments 38 (Pty) Ltd and has worked with the Platmin group since 2000. She joined Sephaku on a full-time basis in March 2008.