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African Phoenix has appointed Siyabonga Nhlumayo CEO.

He joins the investment company from Medu Capital, where he was a partner and responsible for strategic development, investment execution and management.

He is a board member and treasurer of the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. Automated clearing house BankservAfrica has appointed Yvonne Muthien chairwoman.

Muthien has been a member of the BankservAfrica board since 2014 as an independent director and the chairwoman of the human resources and social and ethics committees.

She has also held various senior government and academic positions. Pan-African law firm Bowmans has appointed René Kenosi a partner. She will be in the firm’s governance, compliance and investigations practice.

Kenosi, who joins the firm from Fraudsmiths, qualified as a chartered accountant and serves on the audit and risk committee of the National Consumer Commission. Rosalind Lake, a competition and consumer protection lawyer and director, has joined Norton Rose Fulbright’s Durban office.

She spent 12 years at its Johannesburg office, where she built a substantial practice. She co-authored the book Understanding the Consumer Protection Act and is a regular conference and guest speaker.