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Nomalizo Beryl (Ntombi) Langa-Royds (50)
Position: Independent non-executive director
Qualifications: BA (Law), LLB (University of Lesotho)
Appointed to the board: 15 March 2011
Directorships: Non-executive director of African Bank Investments Limited, African Bank Limited, Pretoria Portland Cement
Limited, Respiratory Care Africa Limited, and Mpact Limited. Executive director of Greanleaf Centre for Servant Leadership (SA)
and Faranani Investments (Proprietary) Limited. Executive member of Nthake Consultants CC.
Ntombi has 25 years’ experience in the human resources environment. She started a wholly owned Black female corporation
in 1999, Nthake Consultants CC, specialising in human resource management and allied services. She has also worked as
group human resources director at Independent Newspapers Limited, as chief executive human resources for the SABC and
group human resources director for Nampak Limited. Currently Ntombi also serves on the audit committee of the Presidency
and Department of Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME).
Jacobus Dorotheus Maria Gerardus (Jack) Koolen (52)
Dutch citizen with residence in South Africa since 1983
Position: Independent non-executive director
Qualifications: BCom (Hogere Economische School Groningen, Netherlands), MBA (University of Witwatersrand)
Appointed to the board: 15 March 2011
Directorships: Non-executive director of African Bank Investments Limited, African Bank Limited and Ellerine Holdings
Limited. Executive director of Reflact Advisory Services (Proprietary) Limited.
Jack has been an independent advisor since September 2008, closely associated with the Monitor Group in the Middle East,
and regularly advises the South African government on a variety of issues.
He has advised the Presidency (Monitoring and Evaluation), and the Gauteng province on economic growth challenges, as well
as working with several private sector customers (mining, healthcare, retail, banking, as well as the chairman of Eskom) in South
Africa, in addition to serving customers based in Switzerland, the UK and Saudi Arabia.
He has held non-executive board positions in the private sector (Edcon: 2001 – 2007) and in NGOs (City Year since inception
until 2008; CIDA University Advisory Board from inception until 2007), and was a member of the SA Health Ministerial Advisory
Committee on Financial Reform (2009).
In addition, he has lectured part time at the Gordon Institute of Business Studies since 2001, in the areas of strategy,
competitiveness and choice, integrating insights from competitive strategy, logic systems and behavioural economics.
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