New appointment for business stalwart at RBM
RBM announced Thami Msubo as the new General Manager: Human Resources on Wednesday
RICHARDS Bay Minerals this week announced Thami Msubo as the new General Manager: Human Resources.
Born and raised in KZN, Msubo is no stranger to the Zululand corporate community, having previously worked with Ticor (now Tronox) and Tata Steel.
Msubo joins RBM with 20 years of HR and business leadership experience from a number of companies, both South African and international, mainly in manufacturing and heavy industry with mining and smelting operations.
He was most recently chief of Human Resources at Telkom.
He started his career as a Business Administration Trainee in Germany and worked for Siemens AG in Munich and Bayer AG in Leverkusen in the early 1990s.
He then worked for these companies in Johannesburg in various HR, training, transformation, industrial relations and continuous improvement roles.
In later years he served as part of the senior leadership team that started and successfully commissioned Greenfield projects of Ticor South Africa and Tata Steel in Empangeni and Richards
Bay on time and within budget and continued to run these operations as stable businesses.
Degrees
Msubo also worked as Senior HR Manager for the Corporate and Iron Ore Strategic Business Unit of Kumba Resources (subsidiary of Anglo American).
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and public administration from the University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), an Honours Bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of South Africa, and a Master of Administrative Sciences degree from the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, which he completed as a DAAD Scholar in 1993.
He is passionate about giving back to the KZN community and currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board for Human Resources at Durban University of Technology.
He has also previously served as Deputy Chairman of Zululand Business Against Crime.
A staunch Kaizer Chiefs fan, Msubo is a hard worker who enjoys running every morning with his wife Lungi, jazz music, vegetarian dishes and spending time with his family.
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