JSE-listed Alexforbes has appointed Kuseni Dlamini as chair-Designate. His appointement is effective 1 July 2023.
Subject to regulatory approval, Dlamini will also serve in the nominations committee and member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Remuneration committees.
Dlamini currently serves as the Chair of Massmart, Aspen Pharmacare, Sandvik Mining Southern Africa Holdings and Fedgroup Holdings and Tennant Group.
He is the Lead Independent Director of the JSE-listed fintech, Capital Appreciation Limited.
In the non-profit space, he serves as co-Chair of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Chair of the University of Pretoria Council and is a member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in SA and the Southern Africa-Canada Chamber of Commerce.
His prior executive positions include CEO of Old Mutual South Africa and Emerging Markets, Head of Anglo
American South Africa, member of the Executive Committee of Anglo American plc, Director of Anglo
American Platinum, Executive Chair of the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) and Chair of Anglo
Operations.
As part of his career in mining, he held a number of senior positions at Anglo Gold Ashanti Limited and De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Dlamini holds a BSocSci(honours) (cum laude) degree and an MPhil from Oxford University as a Rhodes
Scholar.
His earlier career accolades, inter alia, include, being named a ‘Young Global Leader (YGL)’ by the World
Economic Forum and, being selected by Miningx as one of the top 100 most influential people in South
African mining.
In June 2008, the Mail & Guardian named him as one of the top 200 young people worth
taking to lunch and in the same year and month, The Economist referred to him as “A Rare Commodity’. In
2010, the World Economic Forum appointed him a member of the Global Agenda Council on Economic
Growth and Poverty Alleviation and in 2011 he was appointed co-Chair of the annual World Economic
Forum (WEF) Africa Summit.
