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NEW YEAR NEW C-SUITE These finance professionals have decided to take on new responsibilities along with the new year. AngloGold Ashanti has appointed senior VP of group finance Ian Kramer as interim CFO after Christine Ramon was appointed as interim CEO following Kelvin Dushnisky’s resignation.
Tsholofelo Molefe
MTN has appointed former Telkom group CFO Tsholofelo Molefe as its new group CFO. Tsholofelo resigned from her role at Telkom on 4 December with immediate effect. [Tsholofelo won the Finance Transformation Award and HighPerformance Team Award at the 2020 CFO Awards.] Tsholofelo will be taking over from Sugentharan Perumal, who has been acting in the position of group CFO since 1 September 2020 after Ralph Mupita was appointed as MTN’s group CEO. MTN South Africa also appointed Dineo Molefe as CFO from 1 December 2020. Dineo is a CA(SA) and joins from T-Systems (South Africa), where she served as the MD. Telkom appointed Dirk Reyneke as acting group CFO with effect from 7 December 2020.
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Abigail Mukhuba has been appointed as Sanlam Group’s new FD as of 1 October 2020. She has taken over from Wikus Olivier, who has been acting as the CFO since July 2019. Abigail joins Sanlam from African Rainbow Minerals where she held the position of FD since 2017. “Joining the Sanlam Group as FD is certainly an honour and it comes with significant responsibility as we work towards ensuring the organisation’s financial health to the benefit of all stakeholders,” she said. Wikus has been appointed as Sanlam’s group executive of strategy. Kirsten King is back as the CFO of Comair since 30 November 2020. Kirsten resigned in February 2020 in order to emigrate to the UK. She is a qualified CA(SA) and was introduced to Comair as the revenue accountant. She was appointed as FD in 2014.
appointed as COO, along with his role as CFO, in 2018. Cristina Teixeira was appointed as the new CFO Spur Corporation from 1 February 2021. She will be taking over from Phillip Matthee, who will take on a senior operational role within the group’s finance department. Adcorp appointed Noel Prendergast as its permanent CFO in October 2020. He had stepped in as acting CFO following the resignation of CFO CJ Kujenga. CJ has been appointed as the CFO of Ascendis starting in December 2020. She takes over from Kieron Futter who was Ascendis’s CFO for five years. She has served as Adcorp’s CFO and interim CEO. [CJ was nominated for the 2020 CFO Awards.] Wescoal appointed Jubilant Speckman as acting group CFO from
Brandon Wood was appointed as Italtile’s new CFO in August 2020, replacing former executive director of finance and administration Tsu Mhlanga. Truworths International announced the resignation of CFO David Pfaff from 28 February 2021. David joined the group as CFO in 2013 and was
David Pfaff
