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Board of directors

Executive directors

1. Petrus Johannes Uys (Pieter) (46)
2. Mohamed Shameel Aziz Joosub (38)
3. Johan van der Watt (43)

Independent non-executive directors

Mthandazo Peter Moyo (46)

1. Mthandazo Peter Moyo (46)
Chairman of the Board

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.

   
Thomas Andrew Boardman (Tom) (59)

2. Thomas Andrew Boardman (Tom) (59)
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 Malabie (38)

3. Phuti Malabie (38)

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 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 Martha Mokgosi-Mwantembe (47)

4. Thoko Martha Mokgosi-Mwantembe (47)

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.

Non-executive directors (Vodafone representatives

Michael Joseph (63)

1. Michael Joseph (63)

Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Institute of Electronic Engineers. Michael is directly contracted by Vodafone for secondment to Safaricom as the CEO of Safaricom, a position held since Vodafone’s original investment in 2000. He has extensive international experience in the implementation and operation of large mobile and fixed-line networks, including operations in Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Korea, United States, Australia and the Middle East. Michael has been the recipient of many awards, including CEO of the year awarded by the Kenya Institute of Management and the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (an award given by the President of Kenya to people who have made a positive impact in Kenya). He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in May 2009.

   
Morten Lundal (44)

2. Morten Lundal (44)

Morten holds a Master of Business Administration from IMD, Switzerland, and a Master of Business and Economics from the Norwegian School of Management. He rose through senior roles at Nordic mobile operator Telenor, leading their Internet division, Business Solution division and corporate strategy. He was most recently CEO of Telenor’s Malaysian subsidiary DiGi Telecom. He has wide ranging geographical experience through Europe, US and Asia. Prior to Telenor, he was a management consultant with Gemini Consulting UK and AT Kearney in Norway and US. He is Vodafone’s CEO of the Africa and Central Europe Region and a member of the Vodafone Executive Committee. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in November 2008.

   
James Carl Grinwis Maclaurin (42)

3. James Carl Grinwis Maclaurin (42)

James is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Scotland). Prior to joining Vodafone, James held senior financial positions such as CFO of Celtel International BV and UbiNetics Holdings Limited, Executive Vice President Finance at Marconi Plc, COO Marconi Finance Plc, Vice President Corporate Finance and Finance Director GEC Singapore and GEC Bangladesh. James is Vodafone's CFO of the Africa and Central Europe Region. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in November 2008.

   
Ronald Schellekens (45)

4. Ronald Schellekens (45)

Ronald is Vodafone’s Group Human Resources Director and a member of the Vodafone Executive Committee. Prior to joining Vodafone, Ronald was Executive Vice President HR for Shell’s global downstream business (refining, retail, commercial, lubricants, chemicals) responsible for 81 000 employees in approximately 120 countries. Prior to working for Shell, he spent nine years working for PepsiCo in various international senior HR roles, including assignments in Switzerland, Spain, South Africa, the UK and Poland. In his last role he was responsible for the Europe, Middle East & Africa region for PepsiCo Foods International. Prior to PepsiCo he worked nine years for AT&T Network Systems in Human Resources roles in the Netherlands and Poland. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in February 2009.

   
Richard Charles Snow (42)

5. Richard Charles Snow (42)

Richard holds a Masters degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge and is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England & Wales). He worked in investment banking, firstly for Charterhouse Bank, then from 1996 for Merrill Lynch, latterly as a managing director of investment banking. In 2004 he moved to Goldman Sachs as a managing director in its financing group until he moved to Vodafone in 2006 where he currently holds the position of Group Investor Relations Director. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in February 2007.