Rockwell Appoints Processing Plant and Financial Managers for its Northern
Cape Operations
Hans Gastrow is a registered professional mining engineer with broad engineering, operational, and managerial experience and skills in diamond mining in
He graduated in 1971 with a B.Sc. Eng in mining and also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and later completed an Executive Development Program through the Gordon Institute of Business Science in
Rockwell has acquired the services of Hans Gastrow on a contract basis for an initial six months, whereafter the Parties may mutually agree to Hans becoming an employee of the Company.
Johan Oosthuizen is an accountant with extensive business experience in mining, manufacturing, and the financial sector. He served with Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, the benefit fund of South Africa's electricity utility, as General Manager of Finance and Administration for 12 years to 1998. He was a member of the management team contributing to the strategic direction and growth of Eskom's privately managed benefit fund, which was the second largest in the country. He consulted on accounting solutions, financial management, corporate structuring, and taxation until joining the De Beers Group in 2003. He was initially a financial analyst with De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited and following restructuring, assumed the role of finance business partner to the Technical Division of De Beers Group Services (Pty) Limited. His was responsible for the financial business support on both planning, operational and project management levels in the Technology, Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineral Resource Management services and skills offering, R & D, and manufacturing/trading environment. Responsibilities included business model analysis, planning, control, evaluation, monthly, quarterly and annual consolidations and reporting to Board and Compliance Agencies.
Johan holds a B.Comm degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (1979), an Honours B Compt (1988) and a Certificate in the Theory of Accounting (CTA) (1989) from the University of
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