Standard Bank Namibia has appointed Zebra Kasete and Andreas Kanime to its board of directors, effective 10 March 2025. 

News of the appointments was shared via the Stocks Exchange News Service (SENS) as ordered by the Standard Bank board on Monday, 17 March 2025. 

The statement stipulates that Zebra Karirondua Kasete has been appointed as independent non-executive director of Standard Bank Namibia Limited. The appointment stemmed from retirements from the board to manage and ensure compliance. 

Kasete is currently the executive vice president for the Sinomine Tsumeb Smelter. He is a senior executive and metallurgist with an international MBA and more than 35 years of global mining and metal experience across senior strategic, operational, and corporate roles including managing director, executive vice president and board roles in both Rio Tinto’s subsidiaries and Dundee Precious Metals (DPM). 

Kasete is experienced in diverse commodities like uranium, borates, talc, diamond, copper and gold and strengths in transforming companies, managing stakeholders and contributing to the mining industry in Namibia as chairman of Chamber of Mines. 

As managing director of Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb and Vice President of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. Kasete was part of the core team that successfully sold and led the integration of DPM Tsumeb’s smelter to Sinomine Resource Group in August 2024. 

Meanwhile, Andreas Kanime, has been appointed an independent non-executive director of Standard Bank Namibia Limited. He currently serves as the chief executive officer of Namibian Ports Authority where he is responsible and accountable for the profitability and long-term viability of the Namport Group by providing strategic leadership and direction to the company, as well as by creating context and enabling conditions required for the company to achieve its mission, vision, and strategy. According to the SENS announcement, Kanime is a seasoned human resources specialist who also served as director and trustee on the boards of various public institutions and trusts. 

Previously, Kanime served as the group chief human resources officer of the First Rand Namibia Group, where he provided strategic HR leadership, formulating and implementing the group’s human resources strategy, policies and systems, aligned to business strategy in order to optimally achieve attraction, retention and development of staff, required to attain the company’s strategic objectives. 

Kanime also guided and supported the board, senior leadership and line management in the effective management of people to derive optimal benefits from the human inputs. Before that he held the position of chief human resources officer for Telecom Namibia where he was responsible for formulation and implementation of the Telecom Namibia human resources strategy, policies and systems