Mandla Gantsho

Biography

 BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MSc, MPhil, PhDSouth AfricanBorn 1962Appointed to the board in 2003, appointed as chairman in 2013Chairman of nomination, governance, social and ethics committee and member of risk and safety, health and environment committee and remuneration committee Dr MSV Gantsho is the Chairman of Africa Rising Capital, the Chairman and member of the Audit Committee of Ithala Development Finance Corporation and the Chairman of Impala Platinum Holdings Limited.   He was the Vice President Operations: Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration of the African Development Bank from 2006 to 2009, and before that the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa.   He served as a Director of the South African Reserve Bank from 2011 to 2013. In 1997, he was appointed as a Commissioner of the Finance and Fiscal Commission, a body set up in terms of the South African Constitution to advise the South African parliament on intergovernmental fiscal transfers. In 2002, he was appointed as a Member of the Myburgh Commission of Enquiry into the rapid depreciation of the rand during 2001.

Research Interest

 Pharmaceutics