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Daphne Mashile-Nkosi

14th February 2014

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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Full Name: Daphne Mashile-Nkosi

Position: Executive chairperson of Kalagadi Manganese and Kalahari Resources (also nonexecutive chairperson of JSE-listed Pinnacle Holdings, Women’s Investment Bank, Interfile, board member of the South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator, trustee First Rand Empowerment Trust)

Main Activity of Company: Manganese mining, sintering and planned smelting

Date and Place of Birth: 1958, Pilgrim’s Rest, Mpumalanga

Education: Sekano Ntoane High School, Soweto, (I did not complete matric in 1976 – I was a member of the Class of ’76 that took part in the epoch-making student uprising in Soweto on June 16, 1976, which is today commemorated as Youth Day, a South African national holiday)

First Job: Administrator, Detainees Paralegal Support Committee, 1982

Size of First Pay Packet: R46 a month

Value of Project: R11.5-billion, comprising R7-billion for the Northern Cape mine and sinter plant complex, which is expected to be operational in mid-2014, and R4.5-billion for the proposed smelter earmarked for construction in the Eastern Cape

Projected Revenue from Project: R12-billion to R13-billion a year from 2014

Projected Number of Employees: 2 200

Management Style: Autocratic, with a feminine touch

Personal Best Achievement: Kalagadi Manganese’s infrastructural and social impact so far

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My mother, Lina, 84, who still cooks her own meals and refuses to allow anyone else to clean her house

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: My grandfather, a foreman at Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, in Mpumalanga

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Nobody. Don’t expect anyone to open any doors for you but break doors down for yourself

Person Who Has Impressed You Most: Colin Hall, former Woolworths CEO, my role model

Philosophy of Life: The world owes me nothing

Biggest Ever Opportunity: This one

Biggest Ever Disappointment: Not building Kalagadi with my husband, Stanley, who went into hospital to have a pinched nerve treated ahead of taking part in a golf tournament and choked to death in hospital

Hope for the Future: That there are more people who replicate what I have done at Kalagadi for the good of South Africa

Favourite Reading: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins

Favourite TV Programme: Crime & Investigation Network

Favourite Food/Drink: I eat everything and drink everything, except alcohol

Favourite Music: Gospel

Favourite Sport: None – I do not even watch sport on TV

Hobbies: Reading and travelling with my grandchildren

Car: Mercedes-Benz

Pets: Two poodles and a chow for 19 years, which I have vowed never to replace – one died two days before my late husband and the other two died three years ago

Dislikes: I do not have any dislikes

Married: Widow

Children: Zakhele, 38, Katlego, 24, Thekiso, 21, Zakithi, 16, my brother’s child, Tshiamo, 30, and three grandchildren, Rea, 7, Bubu, 7, and Boka, 4

Clubs: None

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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