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LAW firm Webber Wentzel has appointed tax specialist Des Kruger as a partner.
Kruger rejoins the firm from the South African Revenue Service, where he spent three years as a specialist consultant in the legal and policy division.
He began specialising in tax in the late ’70s and has contributed to the resolution of a wide range of tax issues, including negotiating with SARS in relation to amendments to the law.
He has a master’s degree in taxation (LLM) and an international tax programme certificate (both from Harvard University), as well as a BCom, LLB and higher diploma in taxation.
TASSO Evangelinos has been appointed CEO of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District.
Evangelinos joined the private-public partnership formed in 2000 by city property owners “to provide complementary urban management services” in its founding year as a precinct manager and became chief operating officer in April 2007.
“This is the traditional ‘downtown’ of the oldest city in South Africa, and has spent 16 years moving from what was a CBD heading for degradation . . . to one that within the next three years will see an overall property valuation, conservatively speaking, of well over R34-billion,” he said.
SAAB’s local South African defence and security company, Saab Grintek Defence, has appointed Adele Hall as vice-president and head of transformation. She will be based at the local offices in Centurion.
She has a degree in accounting and auditing, and entered the transformation arena when she became a facilitator and client partner at FranklinCovey South Africa, a business consulting firm.
Hall joins Saab Grintek Defence after providing transformation services in her own business, too.
She said: “I thrive on helping organisations comply with the broad-based BEE codes to bring about real transformation.”
CEMENT maker PPC has appointed Peter Nelson as permanent chairman — he has been interim chairman. Nelson replaces Bheki Sibiya, who has retired.
Nelson was appointed to the board as an independent nonexecutive director in January last year. He has experience in manufacturing, mining, telecommunications, healthcare, leisure and property, among other sectors. He has worked in various countries, including the UK, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
He has also served as chief financial officer on several boards, including Telkom, Netcare and Mondi, and was the financial director of PPC from 2000 to 2003.