Leadership

DUMISANI TABATA

Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board

Appointed in January 2009
Chairman of the Nominations Committee
Member of the Remuneration Committee
Member of the Social and Ethics Committee

Dumisani is an admitted attorney and director and founding partner of SMITH TABATA Inc. in King William’s Town. As attorney he has been involved in several Constitutional and Administrative Law related matters. In 1996 Mr Tabata was an Acting Judge of the High Court and served in the position for 3 terms, in April 1999 he was appointed by the Premier of the Eastern Cape, as one of the Joint Liquidators of the Transkei Agricultural CorporaBon (“TRACOR”). After the advent of democracy, Mr Tabata regularly acted as attorney for Government Departments, local authorities and parastatals. Dumisani was a member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (Border) and served on the National Executive thereof in 1998, member of the King William’s Town Transitional Local Council (First Interim Phase) and member of the Council’s Land Sale Committee 1994-1995, served as Deputy Chairman of ABSA BANK regional board, Eastern Cape,
served as non-executive director and chairman of Transactional
Capital (Pty) Ltd as well as non-executive director of Amalgamated
Appliances (Pty) Ltd. Currently he serves on the board of Vuwa
Investments (Pty) Ltd as executive director, director of SMITH
TABATA INC., Attorneys, Notaries and Conveyancers and Smith
Tabata Buchanan Boyes (“STBB”) Cape Town and Johannesburg.