Company Information
Group Structure
Directors
David Chaim Kovarsky (63)
Non-executive Chairman
BComm (Hons), CA(SA)
Date of appointment: 5 December 2007
After qualifying as a chartered accountant, David was appointed as an audit manager at Arthur Andersen. In 1983 he joined JCI in a corporate finance function, eventually progressing to controlling JCI’s Ferrochrome arm, CMI. Thereafter David ran Times Media Limited (TML) and served on the boards of listed companies such as TML, SA Breweries, M-Net and Premier Milling. Subsequently David has been involved in finance and strategy consulting functions and served as the CEO of companies of varying sizes.
He served as chief financial officer for Western Areas between August 1998 and August 2000. Currently David is the CEO of International Ferro Metals Limited, a London listed company producing ferrochrome in South Africa. He is currently the South African CEO of commodities trader Marco International.
Marais Steyn (40)
Chief Executive Officer
BComm (Hons), CA(SA)
Date of appointment: 13 December 2006
After qualifying as a chartered accountant, Marais was appointed as a manager in the audit and management consulting departments at KPMG. Subsequently, he managed and founded an auditing and corporate advisory firm serving the needs of various major corporations and parastatals. Prior to his appointment to the board of R&E, he served as financial director of Aflease Limited, a JSE-listed gold and uranium mining company.
John Hulme Scholes (45)
(Independent non-executive director)
BA (Law), LLB (Wits)
Hulme holds a BA Law and LLB degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Hulme specialised in mining and mineral law and has practised exclusively in the field for 15 years. He was appointed as a commercial director of Aquarius Platinum (AQPSA) during 2008 and was a partner at Werksmans Attorneys from 1999 to 2008 and a non-executive director of AQPSA from 2004 until he became an executive director of AQPSA in 2008. With effect from 1 October 2010, Hulme returned to the legal profession as a mining and mineral law advisor and is now a non-executive director of AQPSA as well as Lace Diamond Mining Company (Pty) Ltd and West Wits Mining Limited which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Van Zyl Botha (31)
Financial Director
BComm (Stellenbosch), (Hons) CA(SA)
Date of appointment: 1 August 2009
After qualifying as a chartered accountant, Van Zyl founded a financial consulting firm focused on the mining industry. He consulted for dual listed mining companies and was involved in government consulting at the Department of Defence through the office of the Auditor General. He joined R&E in 2006 to assist with accounting and forensic requirements and was subsequently appointed as group financial manager and as CFO on 1 August 2009, and as financial director on 6 May 2010.
Registered office of Randgold & Exploration Company Limited
Registration number: 1992/005642/06
Registered Office: Third Floor, Sandton City Office Tower,
158 Fifth Street,
Sandton, 2196
(PO Box 650905, Benmore, 2010)
Phone: +27 11 881 5501
Fax: 086 235 9863
Fax to Email: +27 86 645 4471
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