Nevashnee Naicker
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Nevashnee Naicker

Head of Corporate Communications   
Anglo American
South Africa

 

Nevashnee Naicker currently leads group corporate communication for global mining giant Anglo American. She is based in South Africa, where she is responsible for external communication and reputation, digital and social media, internal communications and employee engagement, and marketing communication, including advertising and sponsorships).

South Africa represents around 60% of the profit of the Anglo American group and around 40% of its employee base globally. Specifically, Naicker has steered Anglo American's repositioning amid South Africa’s Just Energy Transition, a critical initiative given the historic role that mining has played in the country's history.

Naicker leads positioning and engagement efforts to support Anglo American’s global ambitions, which includes achieving net zero carbon by 2030, working closely with C-suite and communication leads and teams across the Anglo American group. She has refocused Anglo American’s reputation-building efforts on building greater resonance with its diverse stakeholder base, with an emphasis on developing unique and tailored stakeholder listening and reputation analysis capabilities. Her role included delivering the multi-stakeholder global launch of the world's first hydrogen-powered mine haul truck in 2022.

Before joining Anglo American, Naicker was corporate communications director for Tiger Brands, the largest food producer on the African continent. Most notably, she played a critical role in steering Tiger Brands’ reputation recovery after the 2017-2018 listeriosis outbreak and class action. She has also held senior communication, stakeholder engagement and public affairs roles at Sasol Limited, one of the largest listed petrochemical organisations on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.