Board

Patrice Motsepe (49)

BA (Legal), LLB

Appointed to the board in 2003. Patrice was a partner in one of the largest law firms in South Africa, Bowman Gilfillan Inc. He was a visiting attorney in the USA with the law firm, McGuire Woods Battle and Boothe. In 1994 he founded Future Mining, which grew rapidly to become a successful contract mining company. He then formed ARMgold in 1997, which listed on the JSE in 2002. ARMgold merged with Harmony in 2003 and this ultimately led to the takeover of Anglovaal Mining (Avmin). In 2002 he was voted South Africa’s Business Leader of the Year by the CEOs of the top 100 companies in South Africa. In the same year, he received the Ernst & Young Best Entrepreneur of the Year award. He is a recipient of numerous business and leadership awards. He is also executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals Limited (ARM) and deputy chairman of Sanlam. Patrice serves on the international business council of the World Economic Forum. His various business responsibilities included being president of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), the representative voice of organised business in South Africa, from 2004 to 2008. Patrice is also president of Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club.

David Noko (54)

David joined the Board in 2011. He is currently the managing director of Celacorp (Pty) Ltd, an executive leadership advisory consultancy. David has vast experience in executive management having been chief executive officer of Air Chefs (Pty) Ltd and later joining De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited where he was promoted to general manager, engineering and subsequently to general manager at Kimberley Mines. He took over as managing director of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited from Jonathan Oppenheimer in 2006. He was previously vice president of the Chamber of Mines, South Africa, and is a member of the Institute of Directors. David was appointed deputy chairman in November 2011.

Graham Briggs (58)

Chief executive officer

BSc (Hons) (Geology), PrSciNat

Graham was appointed as chief executive officer in January 2008, after his appointment to the board in 2007. Having joined Harmony as new business manager in 1995, Graham’s previous positions include that of chief executive of Harmony Australia. A geologist by training, Graham has more than 36 years’ experience in the field and in an operational capacity at a number of South African gold mines, including a stint as ore reserve manager at Beatrix.

Graham serves as a director on Harmony’s subsidiary companies and is a member of the board of the VM Group in the United Kingdom. He also serves as a director of Rand Uranium (Proprietary) Limited.

Hannes Meyer (41)

Financial Director

CA(SA), BCom (Hons)

Hannes joined Harmony in August 2009. During his 15-year career in the mining industry, he gained extensive mining and financial experience at Randgold and Exploration Limited, Randgold Resources Limited, Anglogold Ashanti Limited and TEAL Exploration & Mining Inc (TEAL). His exposure extended to gaining knowledge of mines in Africa, corporate finance and business development. Before joining Harmony, Hannes served as chief financial officer of TEAL, and, from May 2008, as acting chief executive officer of TEAL. He also serves as director on various Harmony subsidiaries and the Rand Uranium (Proprietary) Limited board.

Frank Abbott (56)

BCom, CA (SA), MBL

Executive director

Frank was appointed an executive director in August 2007. Frank initially joined the Harmony board as a non-executive director in 1994, after which he was appointed Financial Director in 1997. Following the ARM Limited/ARMI transaction, Frank was appointed financial director of ARM while remaining on Harmony's board as a non-executive director. In August 2007, he was seconded to Harmony as Interim Financial Director, a position he had until handing over to Hannes Meyer in November 2009. Frank remained executive director until his early retirement at the end of July 2010. Post-retirement, Frank remained on both the Harmony and ARM Limited boards as a non-executive director. Subsequently in November 2011, Frank was appointed executive director: group business development.

Harry Ephraim "Mashego" Mashego (47)

BA Ed, BA (Hons), GEDP, JMDP

Executive director

Mashego joined Harmony in July 2005 as Group Human Resources Development Manager. Mashego, who has more than 20 years’ experience in human resources, began his career as Human Resources Manager at Eskom. He then progressed in the field at JCI, Atlantis Diesel Engines and Foskor Limited. He was promoted to general manager at Harmony’s Evander operations in November 2005 and was appointed executive: human resources in August 2007. Mashego was appointed executive director: organisational development and transformation in February 2010. He accepted his new role as executive director: government relations in August 2011.

Fikile De Buck (50)

BA (Economics), FCCA (UK)

Lead independent non-executive director

Fikile joined the board on 30 March 2006. A chartered certified accountant, she is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) (UK) and a member. From 2000 to 2008, Fikile worked in various capacities at the Council for Medical Schemes in South Africa, including that of chief financial officer and chief operations officer. Prior to that she was treasurer at the Botswana Development Corporation. Fikile is also a non-executive director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Rand Uranium (Proprietary) Limited and of Anooraq Resources Corporation. Fikile was appointed lead, independent non-executive director as well as chairman of the Nomination Committee in August 2010.

Joaquim Chissano (71)

Independent non-executive director

Joaquim was appointed to the board in April 2005. Formerly President of Mozambique (1986 – 2004), Joaquim also served as chairman of the African Union for 2003/2004. On leaving the presidency, he established the Joaquim Chissano Foundation for Peace, Development and Culture, and has led various international peace initiatives on behalf of the United Nations, African Union and the Southern African Development Community to Guinea Bissau, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Madagascar. In 2006, he was awarded the annual Chatham House Prize for significant contributions to improving international relations and was the recipient of the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in 2007. He is also a non-executive director of ARM Limited and TEAL. Joaquim was appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in December 2009.

Ken Dicks (72)

Mine Managers Certificates (Metalliferous and Fiery Coal Mines); Management Development Diploma and Management Diploma

Independent non-executive director

Ken joined the board in February 2008. He has 46 years’ experience in the mining industry mainly in the Anglo American group. He has served on the boards of mining companies such as Freegold and Western Deep Levels. He is also a non-executive director of Gold One International.

Dr Simo Lushaba (45)

BSc (Hon), MBA and DBA

Independent non-executive director

Simo joined the Harmony board in October 2002. An entrepreneur and an executive business coach, he previously held senior management positions at Spoornet and Lonmin plc and was chief executive of Rand Water. Simo is a member of the boards of Cashbuild Limited, Talent Africa, GVSC and the Nepad Business Foundation (SA).

Cathie Markus (54)

BA LLB

Independent non-executive director

Cathie joined the board in May 2007. Cathie spent 16 years at Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats), initially as legal advisor and latterly, from 1998 to 2007, as executive director with responsibility for legal compliance and public affairs. Having graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, Cathie served articles at Bell Dewar & Hall. On qualifying as an attorney, notary and conveyancer, she joined the legal department of Dorbyl Limited. She is currently a trustee of the Impala Bafokeng Trust and chairs the St Mary’s School Waverley Foundation.

Modise Motloba (45)

BSc, Diploma in Strategic Management

Independent non-executive director

Modise joined the board in July 2004. Currently the chief executive of Quartile Capital (Proprietary) Limited, Modise is also a director of Rand Merchant Bank Structured Insurance, Deutsche Bank Securities SA (Proprietary) Limited, the Land Bank and the Small Enterprise Foundation. Modise’s 17 years’ experience in investment banking, treasury and fund management includes appointments at Rand Merchant Bank, African Harvest Fund Managers and Goldman Sachs. Modise is a former President of the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP) where he was instrumental in formulating and negotiating the historic Financial Services Charter in October 2003.

Mavuso Msimang (69)

Independent non-executive director

Mavuso joined the board in 2011. He has 26 years’ experience in management at executive level. Mavuso was involved in the successful transformation and restructuring of various state-owned entities over a period of 16 years until 2010. He is the immediate past Director-General of the South African Department of Home Affairs and previously served successively as CEO of the State Information Technology Agency, South African National Parks, and SA Tourism. He was country representative of international development organizations World University Service/Canada and CARE-International in Ethiopia and Kenya, respectively. Mavuso also held senior management positions with UNICEF and the World Food Programme.

Cedric Savage (72)

BSc (Eng), MBA, ISMP (Harvard), Independent

Independent non-executive director

Cedric joined the board in September 2003. He retired as the chairman of the Tongaat Hulett Group in May 2009 but remains a trustee of the Tongaat Hulett Group Pension Fund. He started his career in the United Kingdom in 1960 as a graduate engineer with Fairey Aviation. He returned to South Africa in 1963 and worked in the oil (Mobil), textile (Felt & Textiles) and chicken (Rainbow Chickens Limited) industries. He was president of the South African Chamber of Business from 1993 to 1994. He also served as chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Development Foundation and as a member of council of that university. He joined the Tongaat-Hulett Group Limited in 1977 as managing director of Tongaat Foods and progressed to executive chairman of the Building Materials Division; he became chief executive officer of the group in 1991. In May 2000, he assumed the dual roles of chief executive officer and executive chairman until his retirement in May 2009. He served on the Nedbank board from 2002 until May 2008 when he retired as non-executive director, and on the board of Datatec Limited from 2001 and Datatec International from 2004, retiring from both boards in August 2009. He served on the board of Denel (Proprietary) Limited from 2007 to August 2010. He currently serves on the General Motors South Africa Foundation and Boco Trust committees.

John Wetton (62)

Independent non-executive director

John joined the board in 2011. He was employed with Ernst & Young from 1967 to June 2010. Corporate audit was his main focus, but for the last 10 years he played a business development role across Africa. He led Ernst & Young's mining group for a number of years and continued to act as senior partner on some of the firm’s major mining and construction clients. John was a member of Ernst & Young’s executive management committee and was, until retirement, a member of its Africa governance board.

André Wilkens (62)

Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency, MDPA, RMIIA

Non-executive director

André joined the board in August 2007. He was appointed to the board of ARM in 2004 and to his current position as chief executive officer of ARM in 2005. Prior to that, he headed ARMgold for five years and ARM Platinum for a year before being appointed chief operating officer of Harmony after its merger with ARMgold in 2003. André has over 40 years’ experience in the mining industry, particularly gold and uranium.