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| | | Ferdinand Dippenaar
Position: Chief Executive Officer
 Ferdinand Dippenaar is a resident of the Republic of South Africa and is a well known member of the gold mining industry in South Africa. He holds Bachelors of Commerce and Procuration Degrees, and an MBA from North West University in South Africa.
Ferdi Dippenaar started his career at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in 1982 and was employed in various financial and administrative capacities at the Gengold mines. In 1996, he became managing director of Grootvlei and of East Rand Proprietary Mines. Following Harmony Gold's acquisition of Grootvlei and Consolidated Modderfontein Mines Ltd, he was appointed Marketing Director of Harmony in 1997, overseeing Harmony's service delivery departments, corporate affairs and the company's investor relations. Most recently he was the Executive Director of Corporate Affairs for Harmony.
Ferdi was appointed Director, President and CEO of Great Basin Gold Ltd. in December 2005. In addition to his role with Great Basin, Ferdi serves as Executive Advisor to other Hunter Dickinson managed companies. He was until 2005 a director of Harmony Mining Co. Ltd.
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| | | Johan Oelofse
Position: Chief Operating Officer
 Johan is a qualified mining engineer with 27 years experience including working on projects in South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Argentina, Kentucky in the USA, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and the DRC. Johan began his career in the South African Gold Mining environment and gained a working knowledge of all aspects of the industry and developed his excellent managerial and technical skills. He has a B Ing degree from Pretoria University in South Africa and an MSc Mining Engineering at Camborne School of Mines. Johan joined Great Basin Gold as Chief Operating Officer in March 2006.
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| | | Zelda Smit
Position: Chief Financial Officer
 Zelda Smit is a South African resident who qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997. After completing her articles with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ms Smit worked in the financial services sector, primarily in banking and insurance, for five years. She was appointed Treasurer of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited in January 2003. At Harmony, she gained extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, debt issuance, risk management and project development and was an instrumental member of the executive team. She has served on numerous boards, including Rand Mutual Assurance Limited and Kingfisher Insurance Company Limited, and was chair of the audit committees of both Rand Mutual Assurance Limited and Minemed Medical Aid.
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| | | Willie Beckmann
Position: Vice President: Business Services
 Willie is an admitted attorney, notary and conveyancer. He obtained the degrees B Juris LLB (1983) from the North West University. He started his career as an officer in the South African Defence Force where he gained extensive experience in administrative law, the drafting of legislation and the conducting and finalising of high level investigations. He joined the gold mining industry in 2002 as the group security manager of Harmony Gold Mining Company. He since then successfully founded the Legal and Compliance Department overseeing the security, legal and enterprise-wide risk management functions of Harmony. Willie joined Great Basin Gold in March 2006 responsible for the Legal and Compliance functions and business services.
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| | | Tshepo Moncho
Position: Financial Manager
 Tshepo has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) Degree from the University of Witwatersrand, a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting from University of Natal, Durban and an Advanced Certificate in Auditing. He is a CA and is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Tshepo completed his articles with Deloitte & Touche and then joined the construction industry working for Grinaker-Lta Corporate office in the tax department. He then moved to Grinaker-Lta Construction Nigeria Ltd for their building division in Lagos. He came back to South Africa as an Internal Auditor, handling operational risks audits. Tshepo joined HDI effective May 1, 2005. His focus comprises of providing financial and administration services for both Anooraq Resources Corporation and Great Basin Gold Ltd. in South Africa and is appointed as Financial Manager.
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| | | Dawie Mostert
Position: Vice President: Human Capital
 Dawie's qualifications include PDM, PCM, MDP and a diploma in Labour Relations (DPLR) (Advanced Labour Law). He has approximately 16 years experience in the mining industry during which time he functioned in the following positions: Human Resources Manager -- Acquisitions since 1998; Mine Manager -- Elandsrand; Executive Training and People Development; Executive Employee Relations; Executive Human Resources and Executive New Mines. Dawie was appointed to the executive of Harmony Gold Mining Company in April 2002. As a Harmony executive, Dawie served on the boards of The South African Mathematics Foundation and the Mining Qualifications Authority (Mining SETA). He will be completing his MBA in 2006 and is responsible for establishing the Human Resources Function.
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| | | Boniface Ngarachu
Position: Change Management Specialist
 Boniface is a Masters Graduate in Business Administration from Ashridge Management College in the UK, a Certified Accountant, Certified Corporate Secretary and a seasoned International Business Manager with experience in strategy and organisational change plus financial and operational management. He has a proven track record in supporting the growth of several multinational businesses. Boniface has had strategic business exposure to close to a dozen markets in Africa and Europe and thus able to operate across different cultures and markets. He has worked across diverse sectors and industry categories from the Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare industry, Fast Moving Consumer Goods industries, Distribution companies, Hospitality, Banking, Consulting, Telecommunications, Agriculture, Asset management and Corporate Finance. This experience has led to an understanding of the corporate environment - what makes companies work and what doesn't.
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| | | Gernot Wober
Position: Exploration Manager
 Gernot is a professional geologist with 23 years experience including working on projects in British Columbia, Yukon Territories, Northwest Territories, and Manitoba Canada, as well as in Alaska and Nevada in the USA. His career has also taken him to Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Eritrea and South Africa. Gernot began his career in British Columbia as a prospector and has worked for various companies on grass-roots projects then carried on to gain experience with various commodities in advanced-stage projects. He has good technical and management skills and is used to working with all types of disciplines in the advancement of projects through to feasibility stages. He has a B.Sc. Geology Major degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada and is a member of the Professional Association of Geoscientists of British Columbia. He presently fills the post of Geological Manager: Africa, at Great Basin.
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| | | Josh Mashigo
Position: General Manager, Burnstone Mine
 Josh has 14 years of post graduate mining (BSc. Mining Engineering, Wits university) experience in the context of South Africa, at Goldfields Limited (Kloof Goldmine), South Africa as Unit Manager-Mining. Further to that Josh worked at Goldfields Limited (Oryx & Driefontein Goldmine), South Africa as Manager Mining. Josh was thereafter appointed at Goldfields Limited (Driefontein Goldmine) as Project Manager where he focused on project initiation and implementation. In 2004 he joined Anooraq Resources as Mining Engineer, working on feasibility and strategy studies including conceptual mining layouts. Josh has been appointed the General Manager of the Burnstone mine.
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| | | Theresa Barnes
Position: Project Accountant, Burnstone Mine
 Theresa is the project accountant and procurement manager has 13 years experience in the field of mechanical engineering in the mining sector. For the past four years she was employed by Harmony Gold Mining Company in a cost saving project to review Harmony's expenses on steel and steel related projects. Subsequent to this she was appointed as the Engineering Contracts Manager at the Procurement Dept. of Harmony. Theresa joined the Burnstone Management team in July 2006.
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| | | Dawn Black
Position: Senior Geologist, Burnstone Mine
 Dawn graduated from the University of Port Elizabeth with a BSc Honours in Geology and is currently enrolled for an MSc in Earth Science Practice Management at the University of Pretoria. She has four years work experience as a geologist and geotechnical engineer/rock engineer, with a focus on platinum in both underground and opencast operations. She played a technical role in ore reserve and resource evaluations, feasibility studies and market reviews for a junior diamond exploration company in Kimberley and a coal operation in Witbank. Dawn gained experience as an exploration geologist, with a primary focus on uranium and minor focus on gold and base metals in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. Dawn was appointed to the Burnstone management team in July 2006.
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| | | Pierre Kotzé
Position: Project Management Consultant, Burnstone Mine
 Pierre has 23 years of business management and business operations improvement experience in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), food, steel, mining, vehicle assembly, information management and technology as well as Government and Local Government industries. During 2003-2004, he was also actively involved in government improvement work, which involved the automated court process system, integrated justice system and the re-engineering and competence building of financial management throughout the Justice Department. As a qualified industrial and certified professional engineer, his core competencies are within supply chain strategy formulation, design and implementation; business process engineering; technology (SC, e-Commerce, business intelligence); business and operations rescue and turnaround; supported by proven improvement, change management and project management methodologies. Pierre was appointed as a contractor on a fixed term period in May 2006 to establish a project management culture at Burnstone.
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| | | Kgomotso Maaroganye
Position: Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Burnstone Mine
 Kgomotso is the corporate-social-responsibility manager for Burnstone and holds a BA degree from the University of Natal, and a BA Honours degree from the University of the North. She has been involved in public relations from 1991 when she joined the Mmabana Cultural Centre in Taung as a public relations practitioner. In 1999 she joined Makwetla and Associated as the account manager responsible for Nation Building projects. Hereafter, Kgomotso joined Trade and Investment Limpopo as a communications manager. She was instrumental in overseeing the change in corporate identity and re-branding process of the Limpopo Province. She gained extensive experience in skills development training, including participation in the Strategic Investment Promotion Training programme presented by International Development Ireland Limited. She completed the Strategic Management course at Turfloop Business School in 2004 and the Executive Development programme of the Wits Business School in 2005. Kgomotso joined the Burnstone management team in July 2006.
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