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Netcare - Changes To The Netcare Board Of Directors ("The Board")
NETWORK HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS LIMITED
(Registration number 1996/008242/06)
Code: NTC
ISIN number: ZAE000011953
("Netcare" or "the Group")
CHANGES TO THE NETCARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ("THE BOARD")
MAIN BOARD CHANGES
Netcare has progressed its objective to have a majority of non-executive
directors appointed to the Board with a significant independent component.
In addition, the membership of the Board will also include members who
appropriately reflect the Group"s stakeholder diversity. Netcare is pleased to
announce that the undermentioned independent non-executive directors have
accepted the invitation to join Netcare"s Board of Directors.
2. CHANGES TO THE BOARD - NOTIFICATION IN TERMS OF SECTION 3.59 OF THE JSE
LISTING REQUIREMENTS
Pursuant to those objectives, the Board is pleased to announce that the
following changes will be made with effect from on or about 14 July 2006.
APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
DR ANDILE ABNER NGCABA
Qualifications: M Comm, Hon Doctorate Commerce
Occupation: Executive Chairman - Dimension Data South Africa & Africa
Date of Birth: 12 June 1956
Dr Ngcaba is one of South Africa"s prominent Black business executives, an
acknowledged leader and authority in the information technology and
communication sector.
He currently holds a Master of Commerce, majoring in Information Systems,
qualification from the University of Witwatersrand. The University of Fort Hare
honoured him with an honorary Doctorate in Commerce and he has also obtained a
diploma in Executive Management Programme jointly offered by Stanford and
Singaport University. He has received a number of local and international awards
recognising his substantial contribution to the development and application of
information technology in business. In 1993 he was awarded, The Best Computer
Person of the Year by the Computer Society of South Africa. In 1999 and 2000 he
won the Black Information Technology Achiever"s award. In 2001 he won the
Eastern Cape Information Technology award and in 2002 the Computer Society again
honoured Ngcaba, this time awarding him with the ICT Leadership Award. He also
received the Lifetime Achievement Award from BMI-T at the African ICT Achievers
Awards in 2003.
While in exile Andile rose through the ranks of Umkhonto e Sizwe, specialising
in the field of military communications. He excelled as both a communications
specialist in Radar and Satellite technologies, rising to the rank of commander
and trainer. After the unbanning of the political organisation, Andile served as
the Director General of the South African Department of Communications (DOC) for
eight and a half years. At the DOC, he was responsible for policy formulation,
conceptual development and implementation in the ICT sector. Further areas of
responsibility included the promotion and management of information technology,
telecommunications, broadcasting, postal services and e-commerce in South
Africa. His leadership role contributed in a meaningful manner towards the
restructuring of numerous communications organisations such as Telkom, South
African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the SA Post Office and Sentech. In 2004
he was appointed as Executive Chairman at Dimension Data SA and Africa where he
currently leads the development of the Group"s African and Middle East growth
strategies.
2.1.2 PROF. TAOLE MOKOENA
Qualifications: MBChB (Natal), DPhil (Oxon), FRCS
Occupation: Professor and Head - Dept. of Surgery, Kalafong Hospital, University
of Pretoria
Date of Birth: 18 July 1952
Prof. Mokoena was born in Matatiele, South Africa. He matriculated from St
John"s College in Umtata, and then obtained an M.B.Ch.B. from the University of
Natal. He subsequently obtained a Doctorate in Immunology from the University of
Oxford, and then returned for specialist surgical training at the University of
Natal. During his career he was awarded a series of fellowships and
scholarships. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,
and was a member of the British Association of Surgeons, the South African
Immunology Society, South African Surgical Research Society, South African
Society of Parental and Enteral Nutrition. He is an associated member of the
College of Surgeons of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. He was one of
the founder members of the National Council of the South Africa Medical
Association. He is a member of the Selection Board of the Nuffield Medical
Research Scholarship, member of the Medical Faculty Board of the University of
Pretoria, and member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Surgeons
of South Africa. He is currently Head of the Department of Surgery at Kalafong
Hospital and the University of Pretoria. His research interests include
xenogenic human to baboon bone marrow transplant, cytokine production in
patients with shock, concurrent peptic ulceration and acute pancreatitis, and
transangiography chemo-embolisation of hepatoma.
Prof. Mokoena has served in a leadership capacity in a number of organizations
both professional and business, including listed companies such as Johnnic, M-
Cell, and Wits Gold (Deputy Chairman). He acted as Chairman of the Medical
Research Council (2001-2005) and Chairman of Eyesizwe Coal (2002-2005).
2.1.3 ADVOCATE KGOMOTSO MOROKA S.C.
Qualifications: BProc, LLB
Occupation: Practising Advocate
Date of Birth: 1 July 1954
Kgomotso Moroka matriculated in 1972, and completed a BProc/LLB at Wits
University in 1980. She became a candidate attorney with Bowman Gilfillan and
Blacklock in Johannesburg in the same year. In 1982 she began her legal career
with a firm of attorneys in ThabaNchu, where she also served as a Prosecutor,
and later as a Magistrate. In addition to practising as an attorney, Kgomotso
has experience as a mediator, arbitrator, has served as a Commissioner at the
CCMA, and has acted as a Judge in the Witwatersrand Local Division. During her
professional career, she has been actively involved in issues such as HIV/AIDS,
gender equality, land rights, public sector corruption, and constitutional
development. She is a member of the Judicial Services Commission, is a past
Deputy President of the Black Lawyers Association and a Trustee of the Nelson
Mandela Children"s Fund. Kgomotso is a practising advocate in Gauteng. Her
current Non-Executive Directorships include SAB Limited, Edcon Limited,
Schindler Lifts and Standard Bank Group.
She is also formerly Chair of MNet"s Phutuma Trust, Gobodo"s Forensic and
Investigative Accounting Division, and has previously served on the Board of
Standard Bank.
2.2 APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
2.2.1 DR RYAN NATANIEL NOACH
Qualifications: MBBCh (Wits); D Pec (College Medicine SA)
Occupation: Chief Operating Officer (COO) - Hospitals, Emergency and Group
Services
Date of Birth: 19 June 1974
Dr Ryan Noach is a medical practitioner currently employed as the Chief
Operations Officer of Netcare. He qualified at Wits Medical School and spent his
post-graduate time within academic units in trauma, orthopaedics, paediatrics
and ICU where he obtained the Diploma in Primary Emergency Care from the College
of Medicine of SA. Ryan was a founder member of the Johannesburg Emergency
Services Doctor Unit and was intimately involved in paramedic training and pre-
hospital care for about 10 years. He was also the founder of Specialised Trauma
Air Response providing emergency helicopter services in South Africa, and is an
experienced flight doctor both on rotor and fixed wing. Ryan joined Netcare in
2002 as the Medical Director of Netcare 911. He was appointed Chief Executive
Officer of Netcare 911 in October 2003 and promoted to Group Services Director
of Netcare in August 2005. As Chief Operating Officer (COO) - Hospitals,
Emergency and Group Services he is responsible for a wide range of Netcare"s
operations.
2.3 CHANGE IN EXECUTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A DIRECTOR
2.3.1 DR VICTOR LITLHAKANYANE
Qualifications: MBChB, M Med (Radiotherapy), MBA
Occupation: Chief Operating Officer (COO) Primary Care, Partnerships and
Diagnostics.
Date of Birth: 07 November 1964
Dr Litlhakanyane, who is an existing executive director of Netcare, has been
promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) in charge of Primary
Care, Partnerships and Diagnostics.
2.4 RESIGNATION OF DIRECTOR
Following the unwinding of Netcare and Netpartner, Professor B Kistnasamy has
chosen to continue his role as non-executive Chairman of the Netpartner
successor institution (Lethimvula Investments Limited) and has agreed to resign
as a non-executive director of Netcare with effect from 20 June 2006. The Board
wishes to express its appreciation to Professor Kistnasamy for the valuable
contribution that he has made to the Netcare Group and takes this opportunity to
wish him every success in his future endeavours.
2.5 FURTHER BOARD CHANGES
It is anticipated that further Board changes will be announced in due course
arising from the General Healthcare Group acquisition in the United Kingdom.
GROUP STRUCTURES
COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD
The new Board appointments announced above will support the appropriate
structures not only to manage the business but also to ensure that conformance
with the prescribed Codes of good corporate governance and conduct is embraced
and meaningfully implemented, in terms of Board structure and composition.
Following the abovementioned appointments to the Board, the composition of the
Board will include:
* Eight Non-Executive Directors (of which five are considered
as independent in terms of the King Code).
* Six Executive Directors.
* Of the total Board membership of 14 Directors, two are
female and four are from previously disadvantaged groups.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The composition of the Board will therefore be as follows after the above
changes:
* Independent Non-Executive Directors:
A P H Jammine
J M Kahn
Prof. T Mokoena
Advocate K Moroka S.C.
Dr A A Ngcaba
* Non-Executive Directors:
M I Sacks (Chairman)
H R Levin
Dr J van Rooyen
* Executive Directors:
Dr R H Friedland (CEO)
P G Nelson (CFO)
I M Davis
Dr V L J Litlhakanyane
Dr R N Noach
N Weltman
By order of the Board
J. Wolpert
Network Healthcare Holdings Limited
Group Secretary
Sandton
20 June 2006
Sponsor: Merrill Lynch
Date: 20/06/2006 08:30:19 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
