SouthernEra President and CEO Resigns

SouthernEra Diamonds’ President and CEO, Patrick Evans, has resigned. Executive Vice President Alasdair MacPhee has been appointed acting President and CEO until a successor is found.

Evans has held the two posts since 2001. Prior to that, he was a non-executive director of the company, and following his resignation he will resume the role of a non-executive director of SouthernEra Diamonds Inc.

Alasdair MacPhee has 25 years of diamond operating experience, 17 years of which working for De Beers. His last position with De Beers was as Technical Services Manager of Jwaneng mine, in Botswana. He joined SouthernEra in 1997.

SouthernEra is a Canadian diamond company with diamond exploration projects in six countries: Canada, Australia, Gabon, the DRC, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It also operates the Klipspringer Diamond Mine in South Africa and maintains an 18 percent free-carried interest in the Camafuca Diamond Project in Angola.