Standard Bank Namibia Holdings Limited has appointed Zebra Karirondua Kasete as independent non-executive director of SBN Holdings Limited and Standard Bank Namibia Limited.
Kasete is currently the executive vice president for the Sinomine Tsumeb Smelter. He is a senior executive and metallurgist with an international MBA and 35+ years of global mining and metal experience across senior strategic, operational, and corporate roles including managing director, executive vice president and board roles in both Rio Tinto’s subsidiaries and Dundee Precious Metals (DPM).
He is experienced in diverse commodities like uranium, borates, talc, diamond, copper and gold and strengths in transforming companies, managing stakeholders and contributing the mining industry in Namibia as Chairman of Chamber of Mines.
As managing director of Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb and vice President of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. he was part of the core team that successful sold and led the integration of DPM Tsumeb’s smelter to Sinomine Resource Group Co. Ltd. in August 2024. In 2003, he obtained an MBA Degree in General and Strategic Management from Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands. He is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Additionally, Andrew Kanime, has also been appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of SBN Holdings Limited and Standard Bank Namibia Limited.
Kanime currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Namibian Ports Authority where he is responsible and accountable for the profitability and long-term viability of the Namport Group by providing strategic leadership and direction to the company, as well as by creating context and enabling conditions required for the company to achieve its mission, vision, and strategy.
He is a seasoned human resources specialist who also served as director and Trustee on the boards of various public institutions and Trusts.
Previously, Kanime has served as the Group Chief Human Resources officer of the First Rand Namibia Group, he provided strategic HR leadership to the FirstRand Namibia Group, formulating and implementing the Group’s human resources strategy, policies and systems, aligned to business strategy in order to optimally achieve attraction, retention and development of staff, required to attain the company’s strategic objectives. He guided and supported board, senior leadership and line management in the effective management of people to derive optimal benefits from the human inputs. Before that he held the position of Chief Human Resources Officer for Telecom Namibia. – www.jse.co.za
