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Lwazi is the founder and managing director of Nations Capital Advisors (Pty) Ltd. He is a non-executive director of Mineworkers Investment Company (Pty) Ltd, Steve Biko Academic Hospital (chairman) and the South African Qualifications Authority (independent chairman of the audit committee). He is the former independent non-executive director of Afgri Ltd, SecureData and the W&RSETA. Lwazi currently serves as an independent non-executive director at the Spar Group Limited, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, the South African Qualifications Authority and the Wholesale and Retail Sector Education and Training Authority.

Clifford was appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer on MIC’s founding. He was instrumental in laying the foundation for the initial phase of the company and executing many of  MIC’s landmark transactions during the period 1995 until 2003. He has since then served continuously as a non-executive director on the Board and its various sub-committees including investment, audit and socio-economic and transformation.

Archie joined NUM in February1986 and in June 1995 he was elected General Secretary of the Southern African Miners Federation to coordinate mining unions across Southern Africa. In 1998 he was elected Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a position that he held from June 1998 till 2006.

He was the Executive Chairman at the Siyakhula Sonke Empowerment Corporation (SSC), and a director of Redpath and Sekgwa Mining Services.

Archie joined Samancor Chrome in December 2007 as Group Transformation Manager and was later appointed as the Head of Corporate Affairs and Transformation. Archie was appointed the chairman of Mineworkers Investment Company in October 2021.

Quinton Dicks joined the MIC Board in December 2016. After obtaining his first qualifications; two degrees BA Laws and BA Arts from the University of Natal in 1988, he went on to obtain a Post Graduate Diploma in Taxation in 1994, which he followed up with a Master of Laws degree from then Rand Afrikaans University in 2001. In 2004, he completed his MBA with the University of Cape Town.

Quinton is currently the Managing Director of the Johannesburg Eye Hospital. He also previously served as the Lead Independent Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Risk Committee and member of the Social and Ethics, Audit and Remuneration committees at Consol Holdings Limited, as well as the Non-executive Chairman and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Allegrow Fund in Namibia.

Rams Ramashia joined the MIC Board as Non- Executive Director in December 2016.  Rams is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and practices law as a member of the Pretoria Association of Advocates. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of Rand Refinery, one of the world’s largest precious metals refinery site. Rams is an independent non-executive director of AECI, a JSE listed company where he also serves on its Risk committee, Social and Ethics Committee, Nominations Committee and Remuneration Committee. He is also a board member of Anglo American South Africa, where he chairs the Social and ethics committee and also serves on the Risk and Audit Committee.

Simphiwe Nanise is the Chief Operating Officer at Mineworkers Investment Trust and Director at Mineworkers Recycling Services, Marula Natural Products, J B Marks Education Trust Fund, Elijah Barayi Memorial Training Centre, Numprop, JB Marks, Mineworkers Development Agency, and EBMTC.

Amanda is the Chief Executive Officer of Uyandiswa; a project management consulting firm she founded 7 years ago. She is also the Founder and Director of Leadership Development Strategies, a company founded in 2016 with the purpose of mentoring, coaching, identifying talent and team development. She was until recently also the Financial Services Director of the JSE listed software organisation, Adapt IT.

Prior to founding her own companies, Amanda had spent most of her 13-year corporate career in Information Technology within the Financial Services industry. She held various senior roles at all four major banks in South Africa with her last role as a Chief Information Officer at Barclays Africa where she drove a change budget close to R1bn for the functions of the bank. This was spread across the 13 countries in Africa, including South Africa.

Her clients were the most senior Executives heading up the various Divisions within the bank. These were Finance, Compliance, Risk, Sourcing, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Corporate Real Estate, Security, Internal Audit, Legal, Treasury and Barclays Shared Services. She drove demand management, prioritisation, execution as well as service management and support.

Her span of accountability further extended to the Technology Competency Centres of SAP, SharePoint and Reconciliations where she led multiple teams locally and internationally to deliver all IT services to the Enterprise Shared Functions.
She has solid experience as a Board member and has served as Chairperson of Grindrod Bank. She currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Redefine Properties, a leading South African-based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), invested in a diverse property asset platform.

Shiluba is a Chartered Accountant with over ten years’ experience in the investment and finance sector. She is currently the Secretariat Co-Lead for the National Task Force for Impacting Investing. This Task Force was instituted as a voluntary, multi-stakeholder partnership to further this effort and promote public-private coordination in growing domestic impact investment.

Additionally, Shiluba is the Managing Director of Tshiamo Impact Partners, a fund that invests in high-growth, early-stage social venture opportunities addressing education, healthcare and energy challenges on the continent. Prior to this, she was the Corporate Finance Transactor for Identity Advisory, which is a boutique corporate finance advisory firm providing corporate finance and debt advisory services to both the private and public sector including both listed and unlisted companies.

Before joining Identity Advisory, Shiluba was the Senior Project Manager for Youth Employment Service (YES) South Africa, a business-led initiative supported by the President to create more jobs for unemployed youth. She focused on stakeholder engagement and finance as well as leading fundraising activities. As the Corporate Finance Officer for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), she supported the approval of new listings and corporate actions in terms of the JSE listing requirements.
Shiluba was Audit Senior for Ernst & Young, where she managed an audit team for a private equity real estate investment firm in New York.

She has recently been invited by the University of Cape Town to be a guest lecturer on the social impact investing module.

Hlonela has over 20 years of experience in leadership, Executive and management roles, spanning across the Public and Private Sector. During this period she had a particular focus on SMME development in financial and non-financial support, Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) and BBBEE. She also has extensive experience in Policy, Governance, Advisory, Strategy Development and Implementation. Until 2020, she was the Executive for Commercial and Enterprise/Supplier Development (ESD) at the Barloworld Group responsible for ESD, Stakeholder Management, Social Impact and Empowerment.

Prior to joining the Barloworld Group, she was the Managing Director of Anglo American Zimele, a debt and equity SME fund for Anglo American SA primarily focusing on development of mining and labour sending communities. She served as the Chief Operating Officer at Department of Trade & Industry (2003-2008), and Chief Executive Officer for the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) from 2008-2013.

Hlonela was Chairperson of the Board of the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa) from 2016-2019 and was the founding Chairperson of the South African Micro Finance Apex Fund (SAMAF) from 2005-2008. She is the current Chairperson and Trustee of Balemi Trust, an ESD entity for Tiger Brands.

Mpho Phakedi started working in the mining industry in 1997. He worked as a general worker and moved to various sections and departments. He worked at Old Lorraine Mine; Winkelhak Mine; Venterspost Mine. He became a shopsteward in 1998, was elected in 1999 as the branch secretary and became full time until November 2008. In 2002, comrade Phakedi was elected as the PWV Regional Deputy Secretary of Education. Between 2005 and 2008 he served as both Deputy Chairperson and Chairperson of Goldfields mining house shopsteward council. In November 2008 he became the Regional Secretary of PWV region. He was elected as NUM Treasurer General at the 16th National Congress held at Birchwood hotel from the 20-22 June 2018. In March-April 2022, he was elected as the NUM Deputy General Secretary at the 17th NUM National Congress at Birchwood Hotel. Comrade Phakedi says he is looking forward to rebuilding and growing this union of Mine, Energy, Construction and Metalworkers. He joined the MIC board in October 2022.