Kavango Resources plc has appointed Jasper Musadaidzwa as chief executive officer and executive director, with immediate effect.
Donald McAlister has stepped down from his role as non-executive chairman and interim CEO and has been appointed executive chairman.
Mr Musadaidzwa has more than 27 years’ experience across the mining industry, including 17 years with AngloGold Ashanti, where he held a series of senior operational and executive, leadership roles across Africa, including Ghana, Tanzania, Mali and Guinea.
The operations produced in aggregate approximately 1.1 million ounces of gold annually, generated approximately US$2 billion in revenue and employed more than 14,000 people.
Prior to this, he worked for Anglo American at the Skorpion zinc mine in Namibia.
Mr Musadaidzwa is a Zimbabwean national and began his mining career in Zimbabwe.
Kavango holds three gold projects in Zimbabwe and the largest district-scale copper project held by a junior company in Botswana near the border with Namibia.