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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF DIRECTORS SEEKING RE-ELECTION
   
 
Name: BE Davison – Barry (60)
Current position: Non-executive chairman, Anglo Platinum Limited
Academic qualifications: BA (Wits), Graduates Commerce Diploma (Birmingham University), Advanced CIS Diploma, Advanced Executives Programme (Unisa)
Designation: Non-executive director
Experience: Barry was Anglo Platinum’s chief executive from 1997 until June 2003. In 1986 he joined the board of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited. Appointed to Anglo American plc board on 15 May 2001. He has extensive mining industry experience, with a career starting at Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited, Consolidated Metallurgical Industries Limited, Consolidated Murchison Limited and Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited.
 
Name: SA Nkosi – Sipho (51)
Current position: Chief executive, Eyesizwe Coal (Pty) Limited
Academic qualifications: BCom, BCom (Hons) (Econ), MBA, Diploma in Marketing Management Designation: Non-executive director
Experience: Sipho commenced his career as a market analyst with Ford Motor Company South Africa in 1980. In 1986 he moved to Anglo American Coal Corporation where he worked as a marketing coordinator. In 1992 he joined Southern Life Association as senior manager, strategic planning. In 1993 he accepted the position of marketing manager, new business development at TransNatal Coal Corporation, which later became Ingwe Coal Corporation. In 1997 he joined Asea Brown Boveri (South Africa) Limited as vice-president marketing. He joined ABB Power Generation in 1998 as managing director.
 
Name: CML Savage – Cedric (66)
Current position: Non-executive chairman, The Tongaat-Hulett Group
Academic qualifications: BSc(Eng), Pr Eng, MBA, ISMP (Harvard)
Designation: Non-executive director
Experience: Cedric started his career as an engineer at Fairey Aviation in the United Kingdom. In 1963 he returned to South Africa to work as an engineer in the oil (Mobil) and textiles (Felt & Textiles) industries and subsequently as joint managing director of Rainbow Chickens. He joined the Tongaat Group in 1977 as managing director of Tongaat Foods and thereafter progressed to executive chairman of the building materials division and chief executive officer of The Tongaat-Hulett Group Limited in 1991. In 2002 he retired from executive duties and is now a director of JSE-listed companies, including Tongaat-Hulett, Datatec, Nedbank and Harmony Gold.
 
Name: F Titi – Fani (43)
Academic qualifications: BSc (Hons), MA & MBA
Current position: Chairman, TisoGroup
Designation:
Non-executive director
Experience: Fani has worked as a private equity investment professional with Kagiso Trust Investment Company (Proprietary) Limited, Corpgro Limited and now TisoGroup (Proprietary) Limited. He was previously an executive director of African Bank Investments Limited and a mathematics lecturer at the University of the North. He serves on the boards of Investec Limited and Investec plc.
 
   
   
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