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BUSINESS organisation the Black Management Forum (BMF) has appointed Busi Mavuso as its MD. She has been with the body since May 2009, as the chief financial officer and head of operations.
She started her career 20 years ago in the banking industry, where she worked for seven years.
She has a BCompt accounting degree and a master’s in business leadership. She is also studying towards certification by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. CROP specialist Ebbe Rabie is to join Price Forbes insurance brokers as senior specialist adviser.
Rabie has 25 years insurance experience, an economics degree from Stellenbosch, a certificate in advanced global leadership from Harvard and a representative certificate in compliance from the Financial Services Board.
He started his insurance career as a loss adjuster with Campbell & Williams in 1991 and was later named adjuster on an agricultural group scheme, Cropsecure, for Lloyd’s Underwriters.
In 2003 he was appointed to start a new specialist underwriter for agriculture, Agricola. THE Bureau for Economic Research at the University of Stellenbosch has appointed Professor Johann Kirsten the new director. He takes the place of Professor Ben Smit, who retired at the end of last year.
Professor Stan du Plessis, dean of the faculty of economic and management sciences, said Kirsten was “a scholar of international stature, an experienced academic leader and a participant in national policy at the highest level”.
“His knowledge of the corporate world as well as his academic leadership over many years will be invaluable” at the institute as it “builds on an excellent track record”, he said. CREDIT insurance company Coface South Africa is to have a new chief commercial officer: William Surmon.
He will be responsible for the full commercial structure at Coface, which incorporates customer relationship management, sales, brokers, marketing and commercial underwriting.
CEO Maniki Rakgalakane said Surmon’s appointment was “part of a planned leadership transition that Coface announced earlier this year”.
Surmon has a wealth of experience in the financial services market and with large multinationals, the Coface Africa CEO said.