West Wits Mining Limited

Career chronology

• Current in May 2026 issuer presentation: West Wits Mining — Executive Chairman. Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (career/role passage)

Contributions and company outcomes

Qala first-gold milestone during chair tenure

17 March 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

West Wits reported first gold at Qala on 17 March 2026, meeting its Q1 2026 target; the release identifies Quinert as chair and records attendance at the pour. Production scale-up remained prospective.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The record establishes chair tenure and attendance, not personal causation.

Relevance: Material delivered milestone during board tenure; not evidence that forecast steady-state output was achieved.

West Wits Achieves First Gold at Qala Shallows (release pp.1-2: first gold date, target and chair attendance)

Suitability for the current role

Mining-law background and chair role

2018-2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Mining Weekly reports Monash BEc (1984), LLB (1985) and that Quinert was West Wits executive chair in 2018. The selected 2026 issuer roster continues to list him as Executive Chairman. This profile is interview evidence; qualifications and responsibility for specific outcomes were not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Education and chair title are interview/issuer reported; no causal company outcome is attributed.

Relevance: Relevant to board oversight of a South African gold development company; evidence is limited.

Michael Quinert (profile lines 265-273); Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (May 2026 presentation, Board & Executive Team)

Evidence gaps

• Exact appointment date and complete dated career chronology were not established.

• Degree details are interview-reported; no direct university record was reviewed.

• No personal contribution to project delivery beyond board tenure was isolated.

• Open-web searches are not exhaustive adverse-record or credential checks.

Career chronology

• CEO effective 1 December 2024: West Wits Mining — COO and South Africa Country Manager, then CEO. West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (career/role passage)

• Earlier career; dates not stated: Anglo American — Line management roles. West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (career/role passage)

• Earlier career; dates not stated: Murray & Roberts Cementation — Underground mine infrastructure, construction and contracting. West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (career/role passage)

• Earlier career; dates not stated: ERG Africa — Technical and operational management roles. West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (career/role passage)

• Earlier career; dates not stated: Asanko/Galiano Gold — Senior management / operating roles. West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (career/role passage)

Contributions and company outcomes

Qala Shallows first-gold milestone

1 December 2024 to 17 March 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

West Wits reported first gold on 17 March 2026, within its Q1 2026 target. Its CEO appointment release says Deysel previously led Qala development and its DFS, and the first-gold release was authorized by him as Managing Director. Steady-state production remained a ramp-up objective.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Issuer releases connect Deysel to Qala project leadership and release authorization, but do not isolate his individual contribution from the wider project team, lenders, contractors or processing partner.

Relevance: Directly relevant to CEO execution; prospective production targets are not treated as delivered.

West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (p.1: CEO effective date, prior Qala leadership and DFS); West Wits Achieves First Gold at Qala Shallows (p.1: first gold, Q1 target and release authorization)

Industrial safety

Fatal mud rush at Qala; investigation and controls remained material

19 March and 7 June 2026; status at 3 September · documented · high materiality

A contractor employee died in a Qala Shallows mud rush on 7 June 2026. The issuer’s 3 September technical presentation also recounts a 19 March mud rush and describes geological structures and tailings-dam runoff as contributing mechanisms; further investigation and remedy work were described. Mining.com.au reported DMPR investigation was underway. No source establishes personal fault by Deysel.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Deysel was CEO during the events; sources establish tenure but attribute no causal responsibility to him. This is an oversight question, not a misconduct finding.

Relevance: Highly relevant to CEO operational oversight, safety and disciplined ramp-up.

Accident at Qala Shallows causes death of contracting employee (lines 61-66: fatality and investigation); Mud Rush Incident at Qala Shallows Mine: A Technical Overview (pp.6,9,15-17: event dates, company cause assessment and response)

Suitability for the current role

Mining execution background

Career background to 2024 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The issuer reports BSc Exploration Geophysics, BEng Mining Engineering, MBA, Pr.Eng registration and a Mine Manager Certificate of Competency, plus prior roles at Anglo Platinum, Murray & Roberts Cementation, ERG Africa and Asanko/Galiano Gold. Credentials and career history remain issuer-reported.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Appointment release supplies the claims; no direct university, professional register or prior-employer records were checked.

Relevance: Relevant technical and mine-development experience for the CEO role.

West Wits Appoints Chief Executive Officer (pp.1-2: qualifications, registrations and prior employers)

Evidence gaps

• Exact dates and outcomes at prior employers were not independently corroborated.

• Credentials and registrations are issuer-reported; underlying registers and university records were not checked.

• Open-web searches are not exhaustive adverse-record or credential checks.

Career chronology

• Current in 2025 annual report; joining reported as 2018 in issuer profile; exact CFO appointment date unverified: West Wits Mining — Chief Financial Officer and Joint Company Secretary. West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (career/role passage)

• Earlier career; dates not stated: BP Australia — Finance and operational roles. West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (career/role passage)

• Earlier career; dates not stated: Ernst & Young — Accounting roles. West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (career/role passage)

Industrial safety

Company safety event during CFO tenure

June-September 2026 · documented · low materiality

A contractor employee died in a June 2026 Qala mud rush; a DMPR investigation was reported underway. Whyte’s assigned roles are CFO and Joint Company Secretary; reviewed sources do not link him to mine operations or the incident.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The event occurred during his current executive tenure; no individual operational or causal responsibility is established.

Relevance: Company-level context; limited direct relevance to his assigned role.

Accident at Qala Shallows causes death of contracting employee (lines 61-66); Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (May 2026 presentation, CFO/Joint Company Secretary title)

Suitability for the current role

Finance and accounting background

2025 profile · analyst inference · medium materiality

West Wits’ 2025 annual-report biography describes Whyte as a Chartered Accountant with 15+ years in accounting and operational management, including EY and BP Australia. It identifies him as CFO and Joint Company Secretary. Annual-report issuer PDF returned 403; indexed report text was reviewed.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Career and credential claims are issuer-reported; prior-employer and CAANZ records were not checked.

Relevance: Relevant finance and reporting experience, with independent corroboration gaps.

West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (2025 Annual Report, Directors’ Report p.25, Simon Whyte entry); Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (May 2026 presentation, executive team)

Evidence gaps

• Exact appointment dates, full career chronology, concurrent interests and independent credential confirmation remain incomplete.

• CAANZ register and prior-employer records were not reviewed.

• Open-web searches are not exhaustive adverse-record or credential checks.

Career chronology

• Effective 6 September 2021; current in selected roster: West Wits Mining — Joint Company Secretary. West Wits quarterly report ending 30 September 2021 (career/role passage); West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2022 (career/role passage)

• Reported in 2022 annual report; start date unstated: QR Lawyers — Senior Associate; corporate and commercial law. West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2022 (career/role passage)

• Concurrent in 2022; later status unverified: First Au Limited — Company Secretary. West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2022 (career/role passage)

Industrial safety

Company safety event during secretarial tenure

June-September 2026 · documented · low materiality

A contractor employee died in a June 2026 Qala mud rush; a DMPR investigation was reported underway. Godfrey’s assigned role is Joint Company Secretary; no source connects him to operations or the incident.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The fatality occurred during his company-secretarial tenure; no personal responsibility is established.

Relevance: Company-level context only; limited role relevance.

Accident at Qala Shallows causes death of contracting employee (lines 61-66); Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (May 2026 presentation, Joint Company Secretary title)

Suitability for the current role

Company-secretarial and corporate-law experience

2021-2022 documented chronology · analyst inference · medium materiality

The 2022 annual-report biography identifies Godfrey as a QR Lawyers Senior Associate practising corporate and commercial law, and company secretary of First Au at that time. A 2021 quarterly report records his West Wits Joint Company Secretary appointment effective 6 September 2021.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role history and practice profile are issuer-reported; admission and later concurrent roles were not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant to secretarial duties; little role-specific outcome evidence is available.

West Wits quarterly report ending 30 September 2021 (2021 quarterly report, corporate section); West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2022 (2022 Annual Report, Directors’ Report: Godfrey entry)

Evidence gaps

• 2022 annual-report biography does not establish later career changes or current external appointments.

• Law admission and later concurrent roles were not independently checked.

• Open-web searches are not exhaustive adverse-record or credential checks.

Career chronology

• Since 2020 per issuer; exact dates unstated: West Wits Mining / West Wits MLI — Executive Director; Head of Corporate Affairs. West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (career/role passage)

• Prior employer; dates and exact titles unstated: Lonmin — Stakeholder-relations / Social and Labour Plan work. Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (career/role passage)

Environmental record

Technical review identifies tailings-water pathway

March-June 2026; presented 3 September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

West Wits’ September 2026 technical review states acidic tailings water passed through unlined surface trenches, creating a potential ingress pathway; its conclusion says geological structures and tailings-dam runoff led to the mud rush. This is an issuer technical explanation, not an environmental enforcement finding.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Siwisa held corporate-affairs and permitting roles; no source assigns her responsibility for the technical water controls.

Relevance: Relevant to stakeholder, environmental and permitting oversight; no personal breach is established.

Mud Rush Incident at Qala Shallows Mine: A Technical Overview (pp.15-17: water pathways and company conclusion); West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (p.17: corporate affairs and permitting work)

Litigation and enforcement

Same-name reference in unrelated Labour Court matter

2013-2014 correspondence; judgment 9 May 2017 · documented · low materiality

A 2017 Labour Court judgment names a Tozama Kulati-Siwisa in employer correspondence in a separate unfair-dismissal dispute. The judgment says she did not testify and makes no adverse finding about her; identity match to the West Wits executive is unverified.

Attribution: Responsibility unresolved. Court material does not establish identity with the executive and records no misconduct finding against the correspondent.

Relevance: Resolves a same-name legal-search lead; must not be treated as an adverse finding about this executive.

Radebe v Kangra Coal (Pty) Ltd and Others (JS830/14) [2017] ZALCJHB 153 (pp.1-2, 5-7: name reference and judgment disposition)

Suitability for the current role

Corporate affairs and permitting background

2020-2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

West Wits’ 2025 annual report says Siwisa joined in 2020 and played a central role in obtaining Qala’s Mining Right and Water Use Licence; it reports a 2025 AAMEG Rising Star Award. BCom/MBA claims in issuer biography are unverified.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Issuer directly credits her with permit and stakeholder work; it does not quantify her individual contribution or independently verify award/credentials.

Relevance: Relevant permitting and stakeholder experience for Head of Corporate Affairs.

West Wits Mining Limited Annual Report 2025 (2025 Annual Report p.17: award, tenure and permit work); Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (May 2026 presentation, biography)

Evidence gaps

• Issuer sources do not provide a complete dated career history; prior Lonmin title/dates remain unverified.

• BCom/MBA and professional membership claims lack direct institution/register confirmation.

• Court same-name identity match is unresolved; judgment has no adverse finding about the correspondent.

• Open-web searches are not exhaustive adverse-record or credential checks.

Career chronology

• From 1 May 2026 per selected company roster: West Wits Mining — Head of Operations. Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (career/role passage)

• Reported from 2024; end date unstated: Fraser Alexander — General Manager, Tailings and Remining South Africa. Makete Thema – Young Professionals Council profile (career/role passage)

• As reported in SAIMM profile; dates partly unresolved: Sibanye-Stillwater — Mine Manager, Bathopele; earlier Mine Overseer and Unit Manager. Makete Thema – Young Professionals Council profile (career/role passage); Benefits of using Internet of Things technology for fuel management at a mechanised underground platinum bord and pillar mine: A Bathopele mine case study (career/role passage)

• Started 2008; dates unstated: Anglo Operations / Anglo American — Mining engineering bursar then mine operations roles. Makete Thema – Young Professionals Council profile (career/role passage)

Industrial safety

Fatal Qala mud rush during Head of Operations tenure

19 March and 7 June 2026; review 3 September 2026 · documented · high materiality

Issuer technical presentation states a contractor driver died in a 7 June 2026 mud rush; it also records an earlier 19 March event, geological/tailings-runoff mechanisms, and investigation/remediation still underway. Minerals Council lists Thema as West Wits presenter of the technical overview. Sources do not attribute fault to him.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Selected roster dates his Head of Operations role from 1 May 2026, before the fatal event. He presented the company technical review, but this does not establish cause or personal control.

Relevance: Material to operational safety leadership, incident learning and ramp-up readiness.

Mud Rush Incident at Qala Shallows Mine: A Technical Overview (pp.6,9,15-17: events, company cause assessment and response); Mud Rush Day of Learning 2026 (lines 193-198: presenter attribution); Accident at Qala Shallows causes death of contracting employee (lines 61-66: DMPR notification/investigation)

Environmental record

Technical review identifies potential water ingress from tailings runoff

March-June 2026; reviewed 3 September 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

The company review reports acidic low-pH water from the tailings facility travelled through unlined surface trenches as a water-ingress pathway and says geological structures plus tailings runoff led to the mud rush. It calls for wider hydrological study and stabilisation; it reports no regulator breach or personal responsibility.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Finding occurred during Thema’s Head of Operations tenure, but no source assigns him personal responsibility for water-management arrangements.

Relevance: Relevant to operational controls and water management; not a proven statutory violation.

Mud Rush Incident at Qala Shallows Mine: A Technical Overview (pp.15-17: pathways, stated cause and remedial plan)

Suitability for the current role

Mining operations experience and academic record

2008-2024 published education/career record · analyst inference · medium materiality

SAIMM records mining-engineering study at Wits, a Pretoria business-administration postgraduate diploma, a Wits mining-law certificate, mine-manager/overseer certificates, and progression through Anglo Operations and Sibanye-Stillwater. Wits repository identifies his 2024 MSc Engineering dissertation. Prior role dates remain partly approximate.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Education has professional-body and university-repository support; some role dates are approximate and current West Wits role comes from selected issuer roster.

Relevance: Relevant underground operations and technical background for Head of Operations.

Makete Thema – Young Professionals Council profile (Qualifications and career history, lines 202-210); Benefits of using Internet of Things technology for fuel management at a mechanised underground platinum bord and pillar mine: A Bathopele mine case study (repository metadata lines 74-80); Board & Executive Team, May 2026 investor presentation (May 2026 presentation, current role)

Evidence gaps

• Exact transition dates among Anglo, Sibanye-Stillwater and Fraser Alexander are not fully reconciled.

• Selected roster gives a 1 May 2026 West Wits start; no dated appointment release was located.

• Statutory mine-manager and engineering registration records were not independently checked.

• Open-web searches are not exhaustive adverse-record or credential checks.