Michiel Jakobus (“Cobus”) Bronn was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2021. He also became a member of the Safety, Health, Environment, Quality & Corporate Social Responsibility (“SHEQ & CSR”) Committee with effect from the same date. Cobus is a qualified Mining Engineer with a Bachelor of Mining Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria and is a holder of an MBA from the University of Potchefstroom. Cobus has over 30 years of mining, exploration, mine design and optimisation as well as project development experience, mostly at executive level spanning deep level gold mining, PGM and Coal sectors in South Africa. He also held senior engineering and mining positions at the world’s largest building materials company, Lafarge. In May 2020, Cobus joined Kuvimba Mining House as the Group Chief Operations Officer, a role in which he is responsible for managing all the group mining operations to ensure they achieve their respective business objectives as well as growing the Group’s production base