Board & Executives

DG Sacco

Chairman

BSc

Des qualified as a geologist and joined the Assore group in 1968. He was appointed to the Assore Board in 1974 and, on retirement of his father in 1992, he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director. In that year, he was also appointed Deputy Chairman of Assmang Limited and in 1999, he became Chairman of Assmang. He is a fellow of the Institute of Directors (IOD) and of the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA).

CJ Cory *

BA, CA(SA), MBA

Chris completed articles with Alex. Aiken & Carter (now KPMG) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982. In 1989 he joined the Assore group as Group Accountant. In 1992 he was appointed Group Financial Director and made Chief Executive Officer in June 2004 when the roles of Chairman and Managing Director were split. He was appointed to the Assmang Board as a non-executive director in 1993 and currently chairs the Assmang Audit Committee. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

PC Crous †

BSc Eng, BCom, MBA

Phil trained as a mining engineer obtaining a BSc (Eng) at Pretoria University in 1975. Thereafter he joined Iscor, and in 1977 he took up a position with Assmang where he advanced to Mine Manager. In 1982 he joined Sasol as General Mine Manager and was subsequently promoted to Operations Manager at Secunda Collieries, responsible for four mechanised mines. In 1988 he joined manufacturing company Sandock-Austral as Managing Director. In 1991 he was invited to join Assore in his current position as Group Technical Director and was appointed to the Assmang Board in 1992. He is a member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and the Institute of Directors (IOD).

A Wilkens

Deputy Chairman and non-executive Director

Mine Managers Certificate of Competency, MDPA (Unisa), RMIIA

Appointed to the board on 20 January 2005.

André Wilkens was formerly the chief executive of ARMplatinum, a division of ARM. Prior to this, he was chief operating officer of Harmony following the merger of that company with ARMgold in 2003. He served as chief executive officer of ARMgold after joining the company in 1998. The balance of his 34 years’ mining experience was gained with Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, where he commenced his career in 1969 and culminated in his appointment as mine manager of Vaal Reefs South Mine in 1993. Andre Wilkens was appointed to his current position of Chief Executive Officer of African Rainbow Minerals Limited in 2004.

RJ Carpenter † #

BA, ACIS

Bob joined the Ore & Metal Company Limited in 1964 and was appointed Managing Director in 1991. Ore & Metal is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Assore group and acts as selling and shipping agent for products produced by all the Assmang and Assore group companies. He was appointed to the Assore Board in 1987, to the Assmang Board in 1989 and was made Deputy Chairman of Assore in 1993.

J C Steenkamp † #

Jan started his career with the Anglovaal Group in 1973. Trained as a mining engineer he has worked, and managed mining operations within the gold, copper, manganese and iron ore sectors. Appointed to the Avmin management board in 1999.

directors

DG Sacco (Chairman)

AJ Wilkens (Deputy Chairman)

M Arnold *#

GC Butler ‡

JC Steenkamp † #

RJ Carpenter † #

CJ Cory *

PC Crous †

LS Matsimela

SM Langa

PE Sacco

DV Simelane

JC Steenkamp

Alternate directors

WM Gule *

PGW Henderson

F Kalp

JW Lewis ‡

AD Stalker ‡

A McAdam ‡

BH van Aswegen

F T Olivier

* Member of the audit committee

# Member of the operations committee

† Executive director

‡ British

Management at the operations

Iron ore mines

W S Grobbelaar, Business leader - Iron ore division
M Pool, General mine manager
M A Oosthuizen, Financial manager

Manganese ore mines

AP Hamman, General mine manager
W Smith, Financial manager

Dwarsrivier chrome mine

AJ Nel, General mine manager
T Barnard, Financial manager

Manganese alloy works

P Twala, Senior general manager
A Santhilal, Financial manager

Chrome alloy works

L.Meyer, General manager
LR Wohlberg, Financial manager