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		<title>Jenna Harris</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jenna Harris is the founder and former CEO of Apollo Africa, one of South Africa’s first licensed private electricity traders. Launching Apollo at a time when private power trading did not yet exist in South Africa, she helped pioneer the new market sector - developing the commercial, legal and financial frameworks that enabled the retail of private power. Through this work, Jenna built a 5.1 GW project pipeline and introduced novel risk-managed portfolio structures and electricity-trading products that have shaped the country’s evolving market design. With nearly 20 years of experience across the gas, power and renewables sectors, she continues to advise utilities, developers and financiers on market reform, innovative business models and investment strategies driving Africa’s energy transition.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Raymond Makgota</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Raymond Makgota is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Seriti Holdings Pty Ltd with over 16 years’ experience in the mining industry. His qualifications include a BTech (Mining Engineering) from the University of Johannesburg, and an MBA and Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Wits Business School. Raymond is a passionate and seasoned professional mining engineer with an unwavering commitment to safety, backed by a proven track record in the mining industry across diverse geographies and mining methods. He also serves as a director at Phola Processing Plant and Richards Bay Coal Terminal.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yamin Yakoob</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yamin Yakoob is a corporate finance, strategy and sustainability leader with 20+ years cumulative experience in investment banking, management consulting and resources. He is currently an Executive Advisor at McKinsey &#038; Company, based in Johannesburg. His previous roles include Group Head of Strategy at Anglo American plc, Principal at Bain &#038; Company and Investment Banking Analyst at Bear Stearns &#038; Company. Yamin has a MSc in Management &#038; Regulation of Risk from the London School of Economics and a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from Duke University (Durham, NC, USA). ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Honourable Minister Gwede Mantashe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr Samson Gwede Mantashe was born on the 21st of June 1955 in the village of Lower Cala in the then Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). He cut his teeth as an activist in the Student Christian Movement (SCM). Minister Mantashe received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 1997, where he also completed a Bachelor of Commerce Honours in 2002. He holds a Masters’ degree from the University of Witwatersrand (WITS), acquired in 2008. He is currently studying for his Masters’ in Business Administration through MANCOSA. In 1975 he was employed as the Recreation Officer at the Western Deep Levels mine and, in the same year, moved to Prieska Copper Mines where he served as the Welfare Officer until 1982.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Patrycja Kula-Verster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Patrycja has been with the JSE for 15 years, of which most of this time has been spent focusing on local and offshore equity origination. Patrycja works in the Primary Market Division which is responsible for origination of new listings across the three asset classes, Equity, Debt and Structured Products, as well as co-creation and development of new products with the broader eco system.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rivoningo Mnisi</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rivoningo Mnisi is the Group Executive for Eskom Renewables and Non-Executive Director and Chairman for Eskom Rotek Industries and has over two decades of invaluable work experience, with a significant focus on the mining industry and energy. Rivoningo brings over two decades of experience in digitalisation, innovation, strategy, operations and sustainability with a strong background in strategic initiatives execution and operational excellence.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christine Janse van Rensburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Christine Janse van Rensburg is a Principal Director at Accenture with more than 17 years of experience spanning mining operations, performance improvement and large-scale business transformation. A mechanical engineer by training, Christine began her career in coal mining operations before moving into consulting, where she has led complex transformation programmes across the mining, energy and industrial sectors.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Allen Makamure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allen Makamure is Accenture's Africa Head of Mining. He brings a rare combination to this conversation: two decades in consulting and before that, real operational and maintenance leadership inside the mines themselves. That grounding shapes how Allen thinks. Having led large-scale transformation and value improvement programmes across surface and underground mining, processing plants and supply chains, he knows first-hand what it costs to keep a mine running under pressure.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willie Hattingh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Willie Hattingh has spent more than 12 years in corporate finance advisory and currently heads up Rand Merchant Bank’s Mining and Resources Corporate Finance Advisory team. Post articles with Deloitte, Willie gained extensive experience in the mining and resources sector in various management and executive positions at DRD Gold, Glencore, Xstrata and MC Mining, both locally and internationally.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bernard Swanepoel</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernard has over 40 years of experience in the South African mining industry of which over 25 years has been in senior/executive management roles. He qualified as a mining engineer and did a B. Com (Hons) in financial management. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Harmony for 12 years, before he founded To The Point Growth Specialists (TTP) with Clinton Halsey in 2008.]]></description>
		
		
		
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