Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited announced that Mahlape Sello and Dave Barber would be retiring as directors at the conclusion of the 2017 Annual General Meeting. Murray & Roberts announced the appointment of Diane Radley, Alex Maditsi and Emma Mashilwane as independent Non-Executive Directors, with effect from 23 August 2017. Diane began her career at PwC where she ultimately became Partner-in-charge of the Transaction Services Group, specialising in acquisition due diligence and listings. She has been the Chief Financial Officer at Altron and later Old Mutual South Africa. She became Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual Investment Group in 2011 and remained in this role until October 2016. Alex is the Managing Director of Copper Moon Trading (Pty) Ltd. Previously, he was employed by Coca-Cola South Africa as a Franchise Director for South Africa. He was Country Manager for Kenya, Senior Director: Operations Planning and Legal Director for Coca-Cola Southern and East Africa. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Alex was the Legal Director for Global Business Connections in Detroit, Michigan. He also spent time at Lewis, White and Clay, The Ford Motor Company and Schering-Plough in the USA, practising as an attorney. Emma is currently the Head of Risk Advisory Services at Nkonki Incorporated. She completed her articles and worked at KPMG, before taking up Chief Financial Officer positions at Carl Zeiss Optronics and subsequently at Masana Technologies. Emma serves as a non-executive director of Tiger Brands Ltd. and is a member of the Audit Committee. She previously served as a non-executive director of Total Coal South Africa (Pty) Ltd. and chaired the Audit & Risk Committee as well as the Social and Ethics Committee. The board also announced that Ralph Havenstein, current independent non- executive director of Murray & Roberts, has been appointed as lead independent director with immediate effect.