| Board of directors* |
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Pieter Cox (64) BSc Eng (Mining), BSc (Metal)
Non-executive chairman |
| Chairman of the nomination and governance
committee and member of the compensation
committee and the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Joined the group in 1971. In 1985 he was appointed
group general manager. He was appointed chief
executive officer of Polifin Limited in 1993; chief
operating officer of Sasol Limited in May 1996; chief
executive of Sasol Limited in 1997 and deputy
chairman and chief executive in March 2001. He
retired in 2005. Awarded honorary doctorates from
the University of the Free State, South Africa and the
University of St Andrews, Scotland. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 1996. |
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Pat Davies (56) BSc Eng (Mech)
Chief executive |
| Member of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Joined the group in 1975. Before his appointment as
chief executive in 2005, he was responsible for the
globalisation of Sasol’s GTL technology as well as the
group’s oil and gas business, including Sasol Synfuels,
Sasol Petroleum International, Sasol Synfuels
International, Sasol Oil, Sasol Gas and Sasol
Technology. He is a director of all major companies
in the group. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 1997. |
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Nolitha Fakude (42) BA (Hons)
Executive director |
| Member of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Responsible for worldwide group human resources,
corporate affairs, stakeholder relations and
transformation. Before joining Sasol she was a member
of the group executive committee at Nedbank Group
Limited. She is a director of several other companies
in the Sasol group. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2005. |
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Benny Mokaba (46) BA (Hons), PhD
Executive director |
| Member of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Responsible for the SA energy cluster, comprising
Sasol Mining, Sasol Synfuels, Sasol Oil and Sasol Gas.
Before joining Sasol he was executive chairman
and regional vice-president of Shell Southern Africa.
He has also worked for the Development Bank of
Southern Africa, was head of Steinmüller Africa and
chairman of Siemens Southern Africa. He is a director
of several other companies in the Sasol group. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2006. |
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Christine Ramon (40) CA(SA)
Executive director and chief financial officer |
| Member of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Before joining Sasol she was chief executive of Johnnic
Holdings Limited. Prior to this she held several senior
positions, including acting chief operating officer and
financial director at Johnnic Holdings Limited. She is
a non-executive director of Transnet and a director
of several other companies in the Sasol group. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2006. |
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Elisabeth Bradley (68) BSc, MSc
Independent non-executive director |
| Member of the audit committee, nomination and
governance committee and the compensation
committee. |
| Chairman of Toyota SA (Pty) Limited and Wesco
Investments Limited. She is also a director of several
other companies, including Standard Bank Group
Limited, the Tongaat-Hulett Group Limited and
Anglogold Ashanti Limited. She is deputy chairman
of the South African Institute of International
Affairs and chairman of the Centre for Development
and Enterprise. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 1998. |
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Brian Connellan (67) CA(SA)
Independent non-executive director |
| Chairman of the audit committee and member of
the risk and safety, health and environment
committee and compensation committee. |
| Former executive and non-executive chairman of
Nampak Limited. Director of Tiger Brands Limited,
Absa Group Limited, Reunert Limited and Illovo Sugar
Limited. He is past councillor of the South Africa
Foundation, the Corporate Forum and the Institute
of Directors and a contributor to both King Reports
on corporate governance in South Africa. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 1997. |
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Henk Dijkgraaf (60) MSc Eng (Mining)
Independent non-executive director |
| Chairman of the compensation committee and
member of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Former chief executive officer of the Dutch natural
gas companies, Gas Terra, Gasunie and NAM and
previously held various positions at the Royal Dutch
Shell Group, including president of Shell Nederland BV,
former chief executive, Gas Power and Coal as well as
former director of Shell Exploration and Production.
He is a member of the boards of Eneco Holdings and
of the Royal Tropical Institute KIT and deputy chairman
of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in October 2006. |
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Mandla Gantsho (45) CA(SA),
MSc, PhD
Non-executive director |
| He is the vice-president operations: infrastructure,
private sector and regional integration of the African
Development Bank, prior to which he was chief
executive officer and managing director of the
Development Bank of Southern Africa. From 1999 to
2000 he was seconded, as advisor, to a vice-president
of the International Finance Corporation in
Washington, DC. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2003. |
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Anshu Jain (44) BA (Hons), MBA
Non-executive director |
| A managing director and head of global markets
of Deutsche Bank AG and member of the group
executive committee. Previously a managing director
of Merrill Lynch in New York. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2003. |
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Imogen Mkhize (44) BSc, MBA
Independent non-executive director |
| Member of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee. |
| Director of Murray and Roberts Holdings Limited,
Illovo Sugar Limited, Mondi Limited, Datacentrix
Holdings Limited, Allan Gray Limited and Mobile
Telephone Networks (Pty) Limited. She is a member
of the Financial Markets Advisory Board and the
Harvard Business School Alumni Board. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2005. |
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Sam Montsi (62) BA Econ, MA Dev Econ
Independent non-executive director. |
| Chairman of the risk and safety, health and
environment committee and member of the
nomination and governance committee and
compensation committee. |
| Chairman of Montsi Investments (Pty) Limited. He is a
director of Independent News and Media (SA) (Pty)
Limited, Business Arts South Africa and companies in
which Montsi Investments has invested. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 1997. |
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Hixonia Nyasulu (53) BA (Hons)
Non-executive director |
| Member of the nomination and governance
committee. |
| Executive chairperson of Ayavuna Women’s Investments
(Pty) Limited. Director of Anglo Platinum Limited, the
Tongaat-Hulett Group (Pty) Limited and Unilever
plc/NV. She is a member of the JP Morgan SA advisory
board. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 2006. |
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Jürgen Schrempp (63) BSc Eng
Independent non-executive director |
| Member of the nomination and
governance committee. |
| Former chairman of the board of management of
DaimlerChrysler AG and director of Vodafone Group,
Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, South African
Airways and non-executive chairman of Daimler
Chrysler South Africa. Founding chairman of the
Southern Africa Initiative of German Business and a
member of the South African President’s International
Investment Council. Chairman emeritus of the Global
Business Coalition on HIV/Aids and Honorary Consul-
General in Germany of the Republic of South Africa. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board in 1997. |
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Tom Wixley (67) CA(SA)
Independent non-executive director |
| Member of the audit committee. |
| Former chairman of Ernst & Young where he was a
partner for 31 years. Deputy chairman of Anglo
Platinum, chairman of New Corpcapital Limited and
a director of African Life Assurance Company Limited,
Clover Industries Limited and Johnnic Communica tions
Limited. Member of the Actuarial Governance Board
of the Actuarial Society of SA and chairman of the ad
hoc committee on corporate law reform of the South
African Institute of Chartered Accountants. |
| Appointed to the Sasol board on 8 March 2007. |
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| *Information as at 30 September 2007. |
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