Lamming out and Visagie in

GOLDPLAT chief executive Russell Lamming had stepped down and Ian Visagie would take over in the interim with immediate effect, the company said yesterday.

“Mr Lamming will enter into a sixmonth consulting agreement to provide his services to the company ensuring continuity and an orderly handover,” chairman Brian Moritz said. “Mr Visagie, in his capacity as financial director since the company’s admission to AIM in July 2006, has been instrumental in the growth of Goldplat and is well suited to lead the company in the interim.”

AIM is the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller growing companies.

Moritz said Goldplat was seeking to find a South African-based chief executive, who would be ideally suited geographically to guide the gold company through the next phase of its “evolution”, as it built its market-leading gold recovery position in Africa. – Sapa