Meet ZCDC CEO Mark Mabhudhu
MARK MABHUDHU is an extraordinary chief executive officer (CEO). He is not new to the mining industry, but an expert with experience spanning 28 years with 25 of those years being in the diamond industry alone, both locally and internationally at senior executive and board levels.
He brings significant strategic and operational oversight to the survival of ZCDC (Pvt) Limited.
His geographical mobility in the industry is punctuated by extensive knowledge in mining gold, platinum and related minerals with vast experience in De Beers, one of the world’s largest diamond mining companies. Mabhudhu’s success can be benchmarked by the fact that he designed, built, commissioned and operated diamond operations/mines with kimberlite and alluvial sources including the rare conglomerate source. In 2000, he was part of the technical team which represented Debswana Diamond Mining Company at the KPCS inception meeting. Mabhudhu has links to experts across the entire diamond industry value chain (Diamantaires).
As an executive leader, Mabhudhu has extensive experience in strategy formulation and implementation at corporate, business and functional levels providing leadership, implementing policies and managing change. He thrives on the ability to manage organizational growth and strategic change in both tough and challenging times using innovative and eccentric means. He has a knack for extracting and marketing the product worldwide. He has wide-ranging experience with safety, health, environmental and quality (SHEQ) management strategy formulation and execution including devising both change and communication programmes and plans centred on zero injuries in the work environment.
Mabhudhu has sound people leadership/interpersonal, networking and stakeholder engagement skills. He has unparalleled capabilities in building great teams that deliver business value and hence encourages thinking not outside the box, but as if there is no box. He has an opendoor policy with a focus on making ZCDC an employer of choice. He is a committed, passionate and devout people developer with key interest in coaching and mentoring upcoming professionals, as well as team members and colleagues to live up to the core values of the company, thus ensuring world-class production of diamonds in line with the company’s vision.
Mabhudhu is a champion of the Diamond Value Management (DVM) system — a tried and tested internationally accepted system for enabling full realisation of diamond value or revenue by assuring integrity and transparency of processes.
He has championed and pioneered the latest diamond recovery X-Ray Transmography based technology which is fast becoming the industry best practice diamond recovery technique (both small and large diamond recoveries).
Mabhudhu started his career in 1990 at Rio Tinto Cam Dump Gold Retreatment Plant as a Metallurgical Student on attachment, where he performed metallurgical test-work and material balance schemes. ere he gained experience with CIP and CIL process techniques in gold recovery and the associated metallurgical processes. He also had an opportunity to familiarise with the Empress Nickel Refinery and learnt the entire business value chain of the operations.
He later joined Lomagundi/Alaska Smelting and Refinery (Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation), again as a metallurgical student on attachment. In 1993, he was employed by Auridiam Zimbabwe (Pvt.) Ltd — River Ranch Diamond Mine — for three years, where he designed and
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