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MOEKETSI Mosola has been appointed political director at Agang SA. His role will be to lead the formation of the party’s political leadership team at national, provincial and regional levels.
Before joining Agang SA, Mosola spent eight years at South African Tourism, three years as chief operating officer and then five years as acting CEO of Brand South Africa. Before this he was chief director of tourism development at the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Mosola has held several other senior appointments in provincial and national government and was responsible for marketing investment opportunities such as the Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative and the Gaza-Kruger Gonaezhou tourism and biodiversity corridor.
He joined Imperial Holdings in 2009 as CEO of its tourism division. LEGAL practice Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed Steve Chemaly a director in the banking and finance department. He will be based in the firm’s Johannesburg office.
Chemaly joins the firm from Nedbank Capital, where he worked primarily as a senior legal adviser. During his 15 years there he was involved in many of Nedbank’s big banking and finance transactions.
Chemaly will focus on the fields of preference share funding, black economic empowerment funding, acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, lending and syndicated lending and cross-border finance, primarily in the mining and resources, infrastructure and energy sectors.
Riza Moosa, head of banking and finance at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa, said: “Steve is an experienced finance lawyer and will be an asset to our team. His skills and his broad range of transactional experience in investment banking will add significantly to the exciting growth of our South African and African banking and finance capability.” AIR Traffic and Navigation Services has appointed Thabani Mthiyane chief executive.
Mthiyane is the Civil Aviation and Navigation Services’s Africa region chairman. He has a BEng (hon) in mechanical engineering from the University of Pretoria and a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Natal. He is completing his world executive MBA through George Washington University in the US.
Mthiyane is a registered professional engineer and a member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Mpho Mamashela, chairman of Air Traffic and Navigation Services, said: “He shares the same values and commitment to our business and industry as our board and . . . has the right credentials and skills to take us forward.”