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Experience: Former Deputy Minister of the Department of Home Affairs (1994 to 1996) and former Minister of the Departments of Minerals and Energy (1996 – 1999) and Justice and Constitutional Development (1999 to 2004).

Attorney, notary and conveyancer. Visiting Scholar of Constitutional Law at Columbia University Law School (New York). Founder member of the ANC’s Constitutional Committee.

Currently an active partner at Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys as well as a member of the executive committee at Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys and a senior special advisor of Sasol Limited.

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Spent most of her life as a political activist working with the ANC Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York and as Secretary for Arts and Culture in Zambia. She was elected to the National Executive Committee of the ANC while serving as Nelson Mandela’s Chief of Staff until 1994.

In 1995, Barbara was appointed as Ambassador to France and UNESCO. She subsequently joined the private sector and became executive director for corporate communications and a member of the De Beers Consolidated Mines board.

In 2003, President Mbeki appointed her Ambassador to the United States of America.

Barbara continues to serve as a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and is a board member of the MTN SA Foundation.

Previous board memberships include the Standard Bank of South Africa and the International Marketing Council.

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Currently chief executive officer of the Road Accident Fund and chairman of Batsomi Investment Holdings Limited. Past chief operating officer of Johnnic Holdings Limited. Prior to that he held various senior financial executive positions at Eskom, Teljoy and JCI. Qualified as a chartered accountant while serving his articles at Deloitte and Touche.

Major directorships include Independent Regulatory Board of Auditors (IRBA), Blue IQ Holdings Limited, ARB Holdings Limited and Eskom Holdings Limited. Serves as a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund.

Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Association of Black Accountants of South Africa.

Previous board memberships include MTN, M-Net, Multichoice, The Premier Group and Tsogo Casino.

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Dawn is one of South Africa’s leading managers and businesswomen, with a highly successful and pioneering career spanning the public, private and parastatal sectors. Her talents and accomplishments were recognised in particular by her appointment as the first black woman to the management board of Eskom, as executive director in charge of growth and development.

Prior to this, Dawn worked as a senior manager and senior general manager (human resources) for Eskom and as senior divisional health education manager for the Anglo American Corporation.

Dawn’s talents and achievements have been widely recognised and acclaimed both locally and offshore. In 1993 she received the prestigious South African Businesswoman of the Year award. In 1994 she was honoured with an invitation to serve as one of the independent electoral commissioners who supervised the country’s first democratic elections. In 1995 she was invited by the Minister of Safety and Security to serve as chairman of the high-powered promotions committee for the South African Police Service. In 1996, Dawn was nominated as the chairman of the UN Special Committee of Experts appointed to address the global issue of women and senior economic decision-making.

Her board memberships include Engen Limited, Massmart Holdings Limited, Sabvest Limited and Partnership Investments (Pty) Limited.

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44 years in senior financial and general management positions.

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27 years (full-time) in the electronics industry with the Altron group and five years part-time training at Altron group culminating in his appointment as a non-executive director of Powertech in 1981.

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Experience: In 1991 Alex joined Price Waterhouse in Scotland initially as a trainee accountant progressing to assistant manager. He relocated to South Africa in 1995 where he was employed as an audit manager with Price Waterhouse in Johannesburg until 1997.

Between 1997 and 2005, Alex was instrumental in assisting with the development of the Transaction Services department at

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). As an associate director of PWC, Alex provided specialist transaction-related advice, principally related to due diligence processes. Some of the transactions which Alex was involved in at PWC included the listing of South African Breweries (SAB) on the London Stock Exchange, the acquisition of ABSA by Barclays Bank Plc, Standard Bank’s defence of the attempted hostile takeover by Nedcor Bank and the acquisition of Miller by SAB.

Alex is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

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20 years in senior management positions in the Altech group.

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Past deputy chairman of The Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board, past chairman of the SA Accounting Practices Board, past chairman of SAICA and past chairman of Deloitte and Touche. He is a director of Brait and a former director of Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited, Allied Technologies Limited and Bytes Technology Group Limited.