Welkom Yizani Directorate

Jakes Gerwel (65) joined Naspers as director in 1999. He was director-general in the office of former president Nelson Mandela, secretary to the cabinet and rector of the University of the Western Cape. He is chancellor of Rhodes University and the chairman of Brimstone Investment Corporation, Media24, Media24 Holdings and Welkom Yizani. He is a member of the executive committee, human resources and nomination committees of Media24, Media24 Holdings and Naspers. His qualifications include BAHons, LicGermPhil, DLit et Phil.

Ashoek Adhikari (48) is a general manager responsible for corporate and legal services and innovation at Media24. He is an attorney by profession and established his own practice in Cape Town. After practising law for 10 years he moved into the public sector, where he held various positions in the provincial administration of the Western Cape in the portfolios of environmental and cultural affairs, social services and poverty alleviation, housing and local government. Before moving to Media24 he was the chief operating officer in the Office of the Premier. He was active in the governance of the attorney's profession and served as a councillor of the Cape Law Society from 1998 and as vice-president from 2001 to 2004, during this time he chaired the Law Society of South Africa's transformation committee and served on the minister's steering committee to draft the transformation charter for the attorney's profession. He is currently the chairperson of the audit and risk committee of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund and is a member of the joint oversight committee for the attorney's profession.

Peter Goldhawk (64) is a chartered accountant and a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. (PwC). Prior to his retirement in April 2004 he was the leader of the corporate finance valuation division of PwC, having previously established the corporate finance and the forensic accounting divisions of the predecessor firm, Coopers & Lybrand. He is now a director of Goldhawk Corporate Advisory. He was responsible for the development and management of the Phuthuma and Phuthuma Futhi BEE schemes implemented in Electronic Media Network (M-Net) and SuperSport International Holdings (SuperSport) in the late 1990s and was integrally involved in the implementation of Phuthuma Nathi and Welkom Yizani. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, the JSE Listings Advisory Committee and an alternate director of the Directorate of Market Abuse of the Financial Services Board.