JSE Limited advises that Mr. Phuthuma Nhleko will join the JSE board as an independent non-executive director, effective July 1, 2021. Phuthuma Nhleko has extensive experience, both in South Africa and globally, in telecommunications, organisationa strategy development, operations, M&A, corporate finance and executive leadership. Phuthuma is the former chief executive and executive chairman of MTN Group Limited, having led the MTN Group from 2002 until 2019. He previously worked as a corporate finance executive at Standard Corporate & Merchant Bank. He has also served as a non-executive director on the boards of several public listed companies, including Nedbank Limited, Anglo American Plc and BP Plc. Phuthuma currently leads the Phembani Group (Pty) Ltd, which he founded in 2012, and chairs the Phembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund which has interests in petroleum, energy, cement and the resources industry.