Anglo American South Africa head Kuseni 
 Dlamini has quit the company to take
 up a new opportunity outside the group, the company said last week.


Anglo media relations head Pranill Ramchander told Mining Weekly that no 
decision had been taken on who would 
replace Dlamini, nor had a timeframe been set for when a successor would be appointed.


Mining Weekly understood, at the time of going to press, that Kuseni would replace Paul Hanratty as South Africa CEO of assurance company Old Mutual.

Dlamini’s departure whittles down Anglo’s attempts to introduce managerial transformation within its top ranks and follows hot on the heels of the company disregarding a Ministerial request that a South African black be appointed chairperson of the London-listed company. Instead, Anglo proceeded to appoint Sir John Parker of the UK as chairperson.

The departure of Dlamini also comes at a time when the South African government 
appears to be softening its initial hardline 
rejection of the Xstrata overture for a merger 
of equals with Anglo, as well as Xstrata’s 
attractive pledge that the combined Xstrata-Anglo would establish an institute in South Africa that would graduate thousands of South African engineers a year. Xstrata also said 
that no operational employees would be 
retrenched and that the deal would be net 
positive for South Africa

Kuseni, whose association with the LSE- and JSE-listed Anglo spans 13 years, was appointed when the South African government was demanding to see demonstrable transformation within the managerial ranks of the iconic com-
pany.

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