Given Sibiya

Independent non-executive director

Appointed:

May 13, 2019

Qualifications:

• BComm
• BAcc
• CA (SA)

Committee memberships:

• Audit and risk committee
• Social and ethics committee

Given was appointed to the board on 13 May 2019. She is a Chartered Accountant and until 31 August 2014 was Head: Internal Audit at SekelaXabiso Proprietary Limited. She has over 30 years’ experience in internal and external auditing, risk management, management consulting, corporate governance and forensic auditing. Prior to joining SekelaXabiso Proprietary Limited, she spent nine years at SizweNtsaluba VSP where she was Director: Forensics and where from 2005 she headed the Corporate Governance Services Division. She also worked for Anglo American Corporation as an internal auditor in the Group Audit Services Department from April 1994 to May 1996. Prior to that, she served articles at KPMG Aiken & Peat from 1991 to early 1994.

She has served as a member of the audit and risk committee for a number of entities, including as chairperson of the audit committee for Basil Read Holdings Limited, South African Express Airways SOC Limited and Brand South Africa. Previously a non-executive director of Chapter Zero South Africa, she has now been requested to assist temporarily as a part-time Chief Operating Officer.  She is a non-executive board member of Ithala SOC Limited, where she chairs both the audit and compliance committee and the social, ethics and sustainability committee. She served as an audit committee member of the Presidency for three years and as chairperson for a further 3 years until December 2022 and currently chairs the audit and risk committee of the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association (CAPASSO).