Meet the
Board of Directors
JDM (Danie) Minnaar
Chairman
Director since September 1999
Qualifications: B.Com
Membership of board committees: Nomination (Chairman), Investment
Ex officio-member of all board committees
Other important directorships: Senwesbel Ltd
Served as Trustee on the Maize Trust and attended various international
courses at Harvard and Stanford.
Mr Minnaar has been farming in the Kroonstad district since 1988 and has been
part of the agricultural sector for many years. He is a former Chairman of the
Free State Agricultural Union Young Farmer Committee and was involved in the
implementation and promotion of grain marketing on Safex.
F (Francois) Strydom
Managing Director
Appointed in 2010
Qualifications: BSc. Agric (Hons) (Animal Science)
Membership of board committees: Risk
Other important directorships: North-West University and Agbiz (Agricultural
Business Chamber) and director of various companies in the Senwes Group
and related businesses.
Mr Strydom acted as Managing Director from 1 June 2010 and was appointed to
this position on 6 Augustus 2010. Prior to this appointment he was the Director:
Operations, a position he filled from 2002. He joined Senwes in 2001 and was
seconded to the former Kolosus Beherend as Managing Director. He started
his career as animal scientist at AFGRI, and was promoted to the position of
Director: Grain at AFGRI over a period of 13 years.
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