Board of directors

Independent Non-executive Chairman

Geoffrey Campbell (48)

BSc (Geology)

Chairman: Nominations Committee

Member: Remuneration Committee

Member: Audit Committee

Member: Risk Committee

Geoffrey Campbell was appointed a non-executive director in 2002, a senior independent non-executive director in December 2003 and as non-executive chairman in October 2005. A qualified geologist, he has worked on gold mines in Wales and Canada. He then spent 15 years first as a stockbroker and afterwards as a fund manager, during which time he managed the Merrill Lynch Investment Managers' Gold and General Fund, one of the largest gold mining investment funds. He was also Research Director for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Geoffrey is a director of Oxford Abstracts. On 26 June 2006, he was appointed non-executive chairman of Emperor Mines Limited, resigning from this position on 1 November 2007.

Executive directors

Daniël (Niël) Pretorius (42)

BProc, LLB

Chief Executive Officer

Chairman: Risk Committee

Member: Transformation and Sustainable Development Committee

Niël Pretorius was appointed Chief Executive Officer Designate of DRDGOLD on 21 August 2008 and Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2009. After joining the company on 1 May 2003 as Legal Adviser, he was promoted to the position of Group Legal Counsel on 1 September 2004 and General Manager: Corporate Services on 1 April 2005. Niël was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DRDGOLD SA on 1 July 2006, becoming Managing Director on 1 April 2008. A director of Rand Refinery Limited, he has 16 years of experience in the mining industry.

Craig Barnes (39)

BCom (Hons), CA (SA)

Chief Financial Officer

Chairman: Risk Committee

Member: Risk Committee

Member: Transformation and Sustainable Development Committee

Craig Barnes joined DRDGOLD in August 2004 as Group Financial Accountant. A chartered accountant, he has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of South Africa. Craig has over 15 years of financial experience. Prior to joining DRDGOLD, he was with Liberty Life Limited for almost seven years, most recently as Head of Financial Reporting for the group. Craig was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of DRDGOLD SA in July 2006 and Chief Financial Officer of DRDGOLD in May 2008.

Non-executive directors

Robert Hume (69)

CA (SA)

Independent non-executive director

Chairman: Audit Committee

Member: Risk Committee

Member: Remuneration Committee

Member: Nominations Committee

Robert Hume was appointed a non-executive director in 2001. He has 41 years of experience in the field of auditing which included 18 years as a partner in the East London (South Africa) office of KPMG. Since retiring from KPMG in 1999, he has spent nine years as Investment Manager at Invest Securities (Pty) Limited (formerly Sasfin Frankel Pollak) in East London. Robert is also a director of King Consolidated Holdings Limited.

Edmund Jeneker (47)

Saipa, Fiac

Independent non-executive director

Chairman: Transformation and Sustainable Development Committee

Chairman: Remuneration Committee

Member: Audit Committee

Member: Risk Committee

Edmund Jeneker was appointed a non-executive director in November 2007.Trained as an accountant, he has specialised in business strategy and general management over the past 11 years. He currently holds the position of Regional Executive: Retail Bank at Absa Bank Limited.

James Turk (62)

BA (International Economics)

Non-executive director

Member: Risk Committee

Member: Remuneration Committee

James Turk was appointed a non-executive director in October 2004. According to the JSE Listings Requirements he is regarded as an independent director. He is the founder and a director of GoldMoney Network Limited (formerly GM Network Limited) also known as GoldMoney.com, the operator of a digital gold currency payment system. Since graduating in 1969,he has specialised in international banking, finance and investments. After starting his career with JP Morgan Chase, James joined RTB Inc, the private investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader in 1980. He moved to the United Arab Emirates in 1983 as Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Since resigning in 1987,he has written The Freemarket Gold and Money Report, an investment newsletter, as well as several books on money and banking.