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LAW firm ENSafrica has made some senior appointments. Ntsiki Adonisi-Kgame has been appointed director in the firm's mining practice, while Joe Mothibi is now a director in the firm’s employment practice.
Adonisi-Kgame was a member of the firm’s mining department until 2014 and has spent the past two years as general counsel for a leading mining group, where she was responsible for the group’s entire legal function and regulatory compliance.
She has more than 13 years’ experience, and knows all aspects of mining law.
Mothibi has more than 20 years’ experience, specialising in employment litigation as well as contentious, transactional and advisory aspects of individual, collective and general employment law. COFACE, the French company that insures businesses against debt defaulters, has announced that Jacqui Jooste is to take over the post of CEO country manager for South Africa.
Gino Conte, the previous Coface South Africa CEO, said Jooste had been an executive director and board member at the insurance company since August 2008.
She had held the position of chief operating officer since September 2014.
“With a career spanning more than 20 years at the entity, Ms Jooste has grown through the ranks, having worked in various key strategic positions throughout the company since [joining it] in 1993,” said Conte.
He will return to Italy to focus on his responsibility as the new chief commercial officer for Southern Europe and Africa. ERROL Shear is to become the head of value equity and absolute return at banking and financial services group Sasfin Wealth.
He joins from Absa Asset Management, where he was the chief investment officer, and has more than 30 years’ industry experience. He spent more than two decades at Stanlib, managing the absolute return portfolios with a value of more than R10-billion.
Michael Sassoon, the head of Sasfin Wealth, said Shear’s experience and track record would add significant value to the business.
“Errol has for many years delivered consistent returns to investors as one of South Africa’s leading value fund managers. Over the past few years, Sasfin Wealth has meaningfully grown its portfolio management and asset management offering.” FASTJET has appointed Angelique Claassen as manager of distribution and IT systems for the low-cost airline’s core markets across Eastern and Southern Africa.
She will be based at Fastjet’s headquarters in Johannesburg and will lead a team in streamlining the airline’s various booking and payment processes and systems, with a particular focus on IT components.
She will also manage the distribution of booking platforms for Fastjet’s key markets: Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.
Claassen was channel manager at SAA subsidiary Mango, where she worked on the implementation of Voyager Miles, the link-up with Edgars Club card holders, a mobile app and payment for bookings on Mango’s booking platform.