Primedia Annual Report 2004


	PROFILE OF DIRECTORS

PAUL NKUNA 52 Non-Executive Chairman [ South African ] Appointed 2000				WILLIAM KIRSH 44 Chief Executive Officer [ South African ] Appointed 1993 BCom, BAcc, CA(SA), HDip Tax Law

Paul is the Chief Executive Officer of Mineworkers Investment Company. He began his career as a teacher before joining the mining industry in 1977. He served as the Treasurer General of the National Union of Mineworkers for 10 years and as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Brakpan Transitional Local Council. Paul serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of Mathomo and is a director of Decillion, Tracker, The Councillor Geological Science and South African Airways.				From 1988 to 1991, William worked in the United States for investment bankers, Lehman Brothers, in the mergers and acquisitions division and subsequent to that founded Primequity in 1993, which became Primedia. He is the principal founder of Primedia and has been Chief Executive Officer since the group listed on the JSE in April 1995.



FUNKE IGHODARO 41 Chief Finance Officer [ Nigerian ] Appointed 2001 BSc(Hons), FCA (England and Wales) Funke joined Primedia in September 2001 as Chief Finance Officer. She was previously Managing Director of Kagiso Ventures Limited, the private equity fund management arm of Kagiso Trust Investment Company of which she was also Executive Director. Prior to this, she spent two years in the corporate finance division of Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank and a total often years with PriceWaterhouse London.		FERDI GAZENDAM 46 Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 2000 BCom, BCom(Hons), CA(SA) Previously Chief Operating Officer of Primedia, Ferdi was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the filmed entertainment division of Primedia in August 2001. He was a director of Deloitte & Touche Consulting in South Africa for eight years. Before joining Primedia, he spent seven years at Teljoy Limited, the last few years of which he served as Managing Director of Teljoy Cellular Services: Prepaid & Subscriber Services.	KUBEN PILLAY 44 Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 1998 BA LLB, MCJ Kuben joined Primedia as an Executive Director in May 2000 and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the advertising division of Primedia in September 2002. He was a managing financial partner at attorneys Cheadle Thompson and Haysom before joining Mineworkers Investment Company in 1996 as a founding Executive Director. Kuben has previously served on the board of public companies in which Mineworkers Investment Company had an interest. Kuben was also a member of the Financial Services Board's Consumer Advisory Panel.	ISSIE KIRSH 70 Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 1993
				Issie is the founder of Radio 702, which he established in 1980. Radio 702 was one of Primedia's first acquisitions and the catalyst that spearheaded the group's rapid growth as a media company. He was also the group's first Chairman and held the position until Paul Nkuna's appointment as Chairman in June 2001.


TSHIDI MADIMA 41 Non-Executive Director	PETER MAW 43 Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 1993 BCom, BCom(Hons), CA(SA), HDip Tax Law	MIKE BOSMAN 44 Independent Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 2002 BCom(Hons), LLM, CA(SA), AMP	NOMHLE CANCA 39 Independent Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 2003 BA (Political Science and Economics)
[ South African ] Appointed 2002 BA(Hons), MA (Accounting and Financial Economics)
Prior to joining Mineworkers Investment Company in September 2000, Tshidi was General Manager of Equal Access Consulting and held various financial positions with ABSA Asset Management, RMB Asset Management and Momentum Life. Tshidi is also a Non-Executive Director of Primedia Broadcasting, Africa on Air and alternate director of BP Southern Africa.	Peter was one of the founders of Primedia and has been with the group from inception. Prior thereto, Peter was with Standard Merchant Bank in Corporate Finance. He was responsible for the Primedia group's corporate finance activities from 1992 to 2004. Peter is also a Non-Executive Director of Massmart and now heads the private equity interests of the Oppenheimer family in South Africa.	Mike is Group CEO of the advertising agency group TBWA/South Africa. He was previously a strategic consultant and worked on a wide range of business issues. Between 2000 and 2002 Mike was President and Chief Operating Officer of FCB North America, prior to which he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lindsay Smithers FCB (now FCB South Africa). Mike is also a director of Venfin Limited.	Nomhle was a registered investment advisor in the USA. Her work experience has been with the US Government; Merrill Lynch, Atlanta; Smith Barney Harris Upham Brokerage House and Oppenheimer & Co, New York and Atlanta. On her return to South Africa in 1991, she worked for Anglo American. Her entrepreneurial career began in 1994 as a Founder of Women Investment Portfolio (WPHOLD), which she left after ten years to start a private equity company, Canca Financial Services (Pty) Limited, in 2002.

HUMPHREY KHOZA 57 Independent Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 2002 BSc Humphrey was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Uthingo - the licensed operator of the South African National Lottery. Prior to joining Uthingo, Humphrey worked for Shell Oil International for fourteen years and Nestlé South Africa for eleven years as Director Corporate Services and Director Human Resources respectively. In 1994 Humphrey was seconded to the Independent Electoral Commission as Chief Director of Communication. Humphrey has also previously served as the President of the South African Chamber of Business for two years as well as Deputy President of the Black Management Forum.	CHRIS SEABROOKE 51 Independent Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 1993 BCom, BAcc, MBA, FCMA Chris is Chief Executive of Sabvest Limited - a JSE listed investment group. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Massmart and MGX, and a director of JSE listed companies Datatec, Primeserve and Set Point. He is also Chairman of the South African State Theatre and Deputy Chairman of BASA. Internationally he is a director of a number of companies and chairs a financial services group in the UK and Europe.	BHEKI SHONGWE 49 Independent Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 1999 BA (Econ), MBA, ACIS, FCIBM Bheki is currently Deputy Managing Director of Fleet Africa. He has extensive operational experience at senior management level in a variety of sectors and was previously an Executive Director of Primedia. He holds Non-Executive Directorships in Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation, African Bank, African Bank Investments Limited and Super Group Limited.	SINDI ZILWA 37 Independent Non-Executive Director [ South African ] Appointed 2002 BCompt(Hons), CA(SA) Sindi is the Executive Chairman of Nkonki, one of South Africa's leading black accounting firms, which she co-founded in 1993. Sindi is also a director of Woolworths, Discovery Health and Eskom. She is also a member of the SAICA Education Committee, a member of SAICA Banking Project Group, PAAB and the GAAP Monitoring Panel. In 1998, she won the business woman of the year award presented by The Executive Women's Club.