Coal Of Africa
Transport in Johannesburg

Based in South Africa, as well as a valuable suite of exploration projects, we have two operating collieries and two projects in early operations and development, enabling us to grow well into the future.

Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) is an emerging coal exploration, development and mining company operating in South Africa. With good access to rail and port infrastructure, CoAL can effectively service domestic and international markets; providing a much-needed resource for economic growth and development for the country and the provinces in which we operate. We are committed to the responsible development and management of our collieries and projects. We seek to support and comply with environmental, social and all other legislation, and to engage regularly and transparently with all of our stakeholders. While we acknowledge that mining has an environmental impact, we will seek to mitigate this impact and ensure we leave an enduring, positive social and economic legacy, particularly for those communities surrounding our operations. Mr Brown is a Chartered Accountant and completed his articles with Ernst & Young, graduating from the University of Cape Town. He joined the Impala Group in 1999 and served as chief financial officer and financial director of Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd before being appointed chief executive officer in He is currently an independent non-executive director of Vodacom Group Limited. In the past he has served as a non-executive director of Simmer & Jack Limited and chairman of ASX listed Zimplats Holdings Limited. Mr De Wet Schutte is a Chartered Accountant, CA (SA) and completed an MBA at the University of Virginia in He has been involved at the senior level in the mining and natural resources industry for the past 16 years, most notably as Managing Director, Natural Resources at Macquarie Bank and CFO at the listed platinum producer, Atlatsa Resources Corporation. Prior to these positions he worked for Harmony Gold Mining (Pty) Ltd as its New Business and Exploration Executive for a period of three years. Mr Cordin has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Western Australia and is experienced in the evaluation, development and operation of resource projects within Australia and overseas. He is a non-executive director of Vital Metals Limited and Aurora Minerals Limited. Andrew has over 30 years' experience specifically in the coal mining arena. His experience spans across various organisations such as British Coal Corporation, Xstrata and more recently GVK Resources. He has gained in depth knowledge in coal operation, both thermal and hard coking coal as well as in project development. Mr Mosololi is a Chartered Accountant, CA (SA) qualified in South Africa and brings considerable expertise as a director of various companies as well as from his time as Finance Director and Operations Director with Tsogo Sun. Shangren Ding, aged 54, is an experienced professional engineer who brings considerable experience to the CoAL board having worked for a number of mining and energy companies as well as acting as a consultant to government geological bureaus. Shangren has over 30 years’ experience predominately in the coal mining sector and he has gained extensive operational coal mining knowledge through chief operating roles at a number of mines in the Heilongjiang province in the People’s Republic of China. From 1998 to 2004 Shangren was director of technology and equipment at Harbin Zhongqing Gas Co Ltd. Shangren is joining the board of CoAL as a representative of HEI, CoAL’s largest shareholder. He is currently General Manager, Strategy and Special Projects and a Board member of various unlisted ArcelorMittal Group companies. He was previously the Executive Director Finance at ArcelorMittal.