Independent Non-executive Directors

Peter holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science from UNISA, a Higher Diploma in Tax Law from Wits University and is a Chartered Accountant of South Africa. Peter is a director and shareholder of Amabubesi Group, a diversified investment group that was co- founded by Peter and his partners, Sango Ntsaluba and Thabiso Tlelai in 2002. Peter has been working full time for Amabubesi since January 2008 after he left Alexander Forbes. The only listed group company that he is a director of is Pinnacle Technology Holdings. Peter is also a non-executive director and member of the audit committee at Transnet Limited. He serves as Chairman of the audit committee of the Auditor General’s Office. Peter also serves on the advisory council of the Stellenbosch Business School. He has just accepted an appointment to the board of Liberty Holdings, effective February 2009. Before joining Amabubesi he was Group CEO of Alexander Forbes, which he had joined in November 2005. During the time he led the Group, his responsibilities extended to other countries in Africa and Europe. Prior to joining Forbes Peter was Deputy Managing Director of Old Mutual South Africa, a position he held for over five years where he was responsible for all the company’s businesses that served the corporate market like Old Mutual Asset Managers, Old Mutual Properties, Employee Benefits, Group Schemes, Healthcare, Symmetry Multi Manger and Old Mutual Specialised Finance. Prior to being Deputy MD at Old Mutual, he was CEO of the Employee Benefits Division, having joined the company in 1997. Before joining Old Mutual he was a partner at Ernst & Young in Johannesburg. Outside his full time employment, Peter also served on the board of Telkom from 2001 to 2004. He chaired the audit committee and was involved at Telkom at the time of its preparation for its listing on the JSE Limited and New York Stock Exchange. He was appointed to Chairman of the Vodacom Board in May 2009.

Chairman of the Audit Committee
Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and C.T.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand and is also a Chartered Accountant of South Africa. He is the Chief Executive of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank Limited. He was previously the Chief Executive of BOE Limited. He was the founding shareholder and managing director of the retail household goods chain, Boardmans. Prior to this he was a director of Blaikie Johnston Limited, managing director of Sam Newman Limited and worked for the Anglo American Corporation for three years. He served his articles at Deloitte & Touche. He is a non-executive director of Mutual & Federal Insurance and The Banking Association of South Africa and serves as a trustee on a number of charitable organisations. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in February 2009.

Phuti holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Rutgers University and an MBA from De Montfort University.  Phuti is the managing director of Shanduka Energy. Prior to joining the Shanduka Group, Phuti headed the Project Finance South Africa unit at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and prior to that she spent six years with Fieldstone, an international firm specialising in the financing of infrastructure assets. Phuti was awarded the "Top in Project Finance, 2003" award by the Association of Black Securities & Investment Professionals. In 2007 she was nominated as Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum. She was listed as one of the "Top 50 women in the world to watch in 2008" by the Wall Street Journal. She was appointed to the Vodacom Board in February 2009.

Thoko holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Swaziland and a Master of Science in Medical Chemistry from Loughborough University of Technology (UK), completed a Senior Executive Programme at Harvard and a Managing Corporate Resources Programme from IMD (Swaziland) and holds a Diploma in Teaching from Swaziland. Thoko is the CEO of Kutana Investment Group and is a director at Knorr Bremse SA (Proprietary) Limited, Absa Group Limited, Paracon Holdings Limited. Thoko has held a number of senior executive positions at Telkom, was marketing director at Lucent Technologies, a divisional managing director of Siemens Telecommunications, the CEO of Alcatel SA and until November 2008, CEO of Hewlett Packard South Africa. Thoko is the recipient of the BWA Businesswoman of the year award in the Corporate category in 2007. In 2005 she won the ICT achiever of the year award, top ICT business woman in Africa award and ICT personality of the year. She was appointed to the Vodacom Board in May 2009.