Board of Directors

Phumzile
Langeni

Mary
Bomela

Thabo
Seopa

Shivan
Mansingh

Sindi
Zilwa

Andile
Khumalo

Lindiwe
Mthimunye

Chris
Seabrooke

Lebohang
Storom

Leon
Rood

Phumzile Langeni (50)

BCom (Acc), BCom (Hons), MCom
Independent non-executive chairman

  • Chairman of the Nominations Committee
  • Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Member of the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
  • Member of the Strategy and Investment Committee

12 years’ service (appointed 30 March 2012)

A stockbroker by training, Phumzile is the co-founder and executive Chairman of Afropulse Group (Pty) Ltd. She serves as independent non-executive director and audit committee member of Nedbank Group Limited, independent non-executive director of Nedbank Limited, non-executive director of DP World Limited and the vice chairman of Imperial Logistics Limited and is a council member of the University of Pretoria. She is the non-executive Chairman of Delta Property Fund.

Phumzile also serves as President Ramaphosa’s Special Investment Envoy.

Mary Bomela (51)

BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MBA
Non-executive director and deputy chairman

  • Chairman of the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
  • Chairman of the Strategy and Investment Committee
  • Member of the Nominations Committee
  • Member of the Remuneration Committee

14 years’ service (appointed 8 September 2010)

Mary is the CEO of Mineworkers Investment Company (RF) (Pty) Ltd (MIC) and holds directorships on a number of MIC’s investments such as Primedia, Kumba Iron Ore and DNI.

Mary previously held the position of CFO of Makhubu Logistics and executive of corporate services at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Thabo Seopa (60)

BCom(Accounting), Higher Diploma in Tax Law, Diploma in Finance, Diploma in Management 

Group Chief Executive Officer (appointed 1 October 2024) 

  • Member of the Strategy and Investment Committee

3 years’ service (appointed 30 September 2021)

Thabo co-founded Awande Investment Managers. Recently he served as interim Chief Executive Officer of AfriGIS, a geospatial information data science company. Previously he served as the CEO and Managing Director of Trudon, the publishers of the Yellow Pages and Phone book.

Shivan Mansingh (38)

BaccSci, HDipAcc, CA(SA), MBA
Group Chief Financial Officer

  • Member of the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
  • Member of the Strategy and Investment Committee

5 years’ service (appointed 1 April 2019)

Shivan served as the Chief Financial Officer of Torre Industries Limited until it delisted from the JSE. Prior to joining Torre, he worked at Exxaro Resources Limited and PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., where he specialised in group reporting as well as the audits of multinational JSE listed companies.

Sindi Zilwa (57)

BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), CD(SA)
Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning (UFS)
Advanced Diploma in Taxation (UNISA)
Advanced Diploma in Banking (RAU)

Lead independent non-executive director

  • Chairman of the Audit, Governance and Risk Committee
  • Member of the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
  • Member of Nominations Committee

12 years’ service (appointed 17 October 2012)

Sindi retired as the CEO of Nkonki Inc through a management buyout after 23 years of entrepreneurship in the audit and accounting profession. She is a published author of two books on boards and audit committees. She is an independent non-executive director of Gijima Group Limited, Discovery Limited, Sibanye Stillwater, Delta Property Fund, Mercedes Benz SA, Tourvest Limited and Cell C.  

Her past directorships include ACSA Chairman, AngloGold Ashanti Limited, Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, Consol Holdings (Pty) Limited, Discovery Limited, Massmart Limited, Redefine Properties Limited, Woolworths Limited, Rebosis Limited, Transkei National Building Society, South African Mint, WIPHOLD, Telkom, Primedia, Ethos Private Equity, Institute of Directors, Alexkor and ATNS.

She was a member of the Reserve Bank Panel and the past Chairman of the BUSA Standing Committee on Transformation.

Andile Khumalo (46)

BCom (Accounting), Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting, CA(SA)

Independent non-executive director

  • Member of the Audit, Governance and Risk Committee
  • Member of the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
  • Member of the Strategy and Investment Committee

3 years’ service (appointed 30 September 2021)

Andile is CEO of KhumaloCo, an investment firm with a focus on technology, media, property and venture capital. He also serves as non-executive chairman of investee companies Ince, Brave Group and I Am An Entrepreneur. In addition, he serves as a non-executive director at Grindrod Limited, and Airports Company South Africa SOC Limited (ACSA) and as a member of Audit & Risk Committee, Social & Ethics Committee and the Board Investment Committee of Airports Company; and as a fellow of the Centre for African Management and Markets at The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Andile has previously served as a member of the Takeover Regulations Panel, a member of the Directorate of Market Abuse and President of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA).

Lindiwe Mthimunye (50)

BCom, CA(SA), MCom, HDip Tax Law
Independent non-executive director

  • Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
  • Member of the Audit, Governance and Risk Committee
  • Member of the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee

7 years’ service (appointed 1 July 2017)

As an independent non-executive director of Sabvest Capital Limited, Lindiwe is a member of its Audit and Risk, Social and Ethics and Nominations and Remuneration Committees. She is also a non-executive director of Old Mutual Investments (Pty) Limited, Blue Label Telecoms Limited and DRA Global. Her past directorships include Woolworths Holdings Limited, Massmart Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Group Five Limited, Sea Harvest Group Limited, PetroSA, Saatchi & Saatchi SA, Hyundai Automotive SA (Pty) Ltd and Torre Industries Limited.

Chris Seabrooke (71)

BCom, BAcc, MBA, FCMA
Independent non-executive director

  • Member of the Nominations Committee
  • Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Member of Strategy and Investment Committee

21 years’ service (appointed 28 January 2003)

Chris has been a director of more than 25 listed companies. He is currently CEO of Sabvest Limited and non-executive director of Transaction Capital Limited, and a director of a number of unlisted companies locally and internationally. He is a former Chairman of Transaction Capital, the South African State Theatre and former Deputy Chairman of the inaugural National Arts Council.

Lebohang Storom (36)

BCom(Hons), CA(SA), MCom, MBA
Non-executive director

3 years’ service (appointed 26 March 2021)

Lebohang is the Group Financial Manager of Mineworkers Investment Company. Previously he was the Group Financial Manager of Adcorp Holdings Limited and a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. His commercial experience is in increasing financial and operational efficiencies through new innovative technologies.

Leon Rood (47)

BCom, LLB
Independent non-executive alternate director to Chris Seabrooke

5 years’ service (appointed 1 February 2019)

In addition to being an admitted attorney, Leon holds certificates and diplomas in advanced taxation, corporate and securities law and international taxation. He is an executive director of Sabvest Capital Limited and a director of various unlisted companies. Leon was previously a senior director of Werksmans and also held various positions with Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr and KPMG. His wide ranging legal and commercial experience includes investments, acquisitions and funding structuring, and implementation locally and internationally.

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