Petra Diamonds Limited announced that, as indicated in its announcement on 31 March 2020, Mr. Tony Lowrie has retired from the Board and his role as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, and is consequently no longer a member of the Company’s Audit and Risk, Nomination and Remuneration Committees. Ms. Varda Shine has assumed the role of Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, effective November 17, 2020. Varda is an outstanding appointee given her deep experience of the diamond industry, as well as the UK public company corporate world, and her expertise in multi-stakeholder engagement. She is currently a member of the Company’s Audit and Risk, HSE (Health, Safety and Environment), Nomination and SED (Social, Ethics and Diversity) Committees, as well as chairing the Company’s Remuneration Committee. As such she has oversight of all the Company’s material risks and opportunities and will be able to apply this expertise to the benefit of shareholders and other stakeholders. As previously indicated, Mr. Gordon Hamilton, Independent Non-executive Director, will retire from the Board and as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee (“ARC”) at the conclusion of the Fiscal Year 2021 Annual General Meeting. A search process for his successor as Chair of the ARC has commenced.