Management

President – Otto Shikongo

Otto Shikongo was born in Emono near Oshakati in the north of Namibia. He is a professional engineer with a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southampton in the UK. He completed the Senior Management Development Programme at the University of Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa in 1996 and an Executive Development Programme with Ashridge in 1998. He held numerous engineering related positions at Namdeb’s Elizabeth Bay mine and Debswana’s Orapa mine in Botswana before moving to De Beers Marine Namibia (DBMN) as Operations Manager in January 2002. He was appointed DBMN Managing Director in December 2003.

1st Vice President – Gerald Boting

Gerald Boting has a diploma in Extractive Metallurgy obtained from Wits Technikon. He has completed several senior management programmes. His career with De Beers spanned some 27 years and worked on most De Beers mines in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia before joining Anglo American as General Manager at Skorpion Zinc in 2002. Gerald has some 12 years of experience in Namibia.

2nd Vice President - Mike Leech

I have been with Rössing Uranium since 1982 – over 24 years now, apart from three very interesting and enjoyable years spent at Anglesey Aluminium, in Wales, as their Commercial Director. Working for a smelting company widened my experience greatly especially as they are a very cost conscious business.

My wife and I are born Zimbabweans but having been in Namibia nearly 30 years and are now true-blue Namibians.

My experience at Rössing began in the accounting field (I am a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, FCIS) as mining accountant, followed by a series of positions in the finance / commercial line. I was the General Manager Commercial from October 2001 until August 2004. Directly before that I held the post of Financial Director and was based in Windhoek from Nov 1999 to 2001. I was appointed Managing Director on 14 September 2004. Aside from my natural financial interest I am a very strong believer in safety as a natural part of efficient processes in all we do.

General Manager – Veston Malango

Mr. Veston Malango is the General Manager of the Chamber of Mines of Namibia. He is a qualified Mining Engineer with a M.Sc. Degree (1985) from the Technical University Bergakademie Frieberg, Germany. He is also a qualified Gemmologist with Diplomas (1993) in Diamond Grading and in Coloured Gemstones from the German Germmological Training Centre in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Mr. Malango holds an MBA (2004) from the Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands. He is a member of the Engineering Council of Namibia since 1996.

Mr. Malango has vast experience in the mining industry in Namibia and the SADC region. He worked as Deputy Director of Mines at the Ministry of Mines and Energy for 8 years and then joined Ongopolo Mining & Processing Ltd, now Weatherly Mining Namibia for one and half years as Director responsible for strategic projects. He was appointed General Manager of the Chamber of Mines in October 2005.

Mr. Malango worked in the Zambian copper mines after university studies as a graduate mining engineer and then worked for the SADC Mining Sector for 6 years on minerals investment promotion projects to the SADC mining sector.

Mr. Malango serves on Boards of some institutions namely: the Bank of Namibia as Board Member, the Polytechnic of Namibia as Vice-Chairperson of the Council, the Minerals Development Fund of Namibia (MDF) and the Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) as Trustee.

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