Anooraq Board Appointment
November 21 2008 - 1:22PM
PR Newswire (US)
VANCOUVER, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anooraq Resources
Corporation ("Anooraq" or the "Company") (TSXV: ARQ; AMEX: ANO;
JSE: ARQ) announces that Fikile Tebogo De Buck has been appointed
as an independent, non-executive director to the Board. Ms De Buck
graduated in 1982 with a BA in Economics and Accounting from the
University of Swaziland. In 1990, she was awarded the Stuart
Crystal Prize for the best accounting student at the Birmingham
Polytechnic, the first black student to be awarded this prize. She
became a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified
Accountants in the United Kingdom in 2002. Ms De Buck worked for
the Botswana Development Corporation Limited ("BDC") for 14 years,
during which time she took responsibility for risk management in
foreign exchange, liquidity and interest rates, credit risk
analysis and management and funding for loans and equity finance.
From 1995 to 1998, she was the Treasurer for the BDC. Ms De Buck
joined the Council for Medical Schemes in South Africa in 2000 as
head of the Financial Supervision Unit reporting to the Registrar
of Medical Schemes. In 2003, she was appointed Chief Operations
Officer for the Council with her role expanded to overseeing the
Council's finance and internal information technology divisions. In
2005 her role was further expanded to include the oversight of
knowledge management and the accreditation unit. She represented
management at the Audit Committee and chaired the Tender Committee
and the Risk Management Committee. Ms De Buck resigned from the
Council in February 2008. Philip Kotze, Chief Executive of Anooraq,
said "We are delighted that Fikile has agreed to join the board. We
look forward to the contribution she will make to the deliberations
of the directors from both a financial and risk management
perspective." Ms De Buck is also a director of Harmony Gold Mining
Company Limited and of Rand Uranium (Pty) Limited. ON BEHALF OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Philip Kotze President and CEO The TSX Venture
Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release. The American Stock Exchange has neither
approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
DATASOURCE: Anooraq Resources Corporation CONTACT: visit our
website http://www.anooraqresources.com/ or contact Investor
Relations in South Africa at 27 11 883-0831 or in North America at
(604) 684-6365 or Toll free 1-800-667-2114
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