Truworths International Limited announced, in compliance with paragraph 3.59 of the Listings Requirements of the JSE, the appointment of Mr. Wayne Muller and Ms Daphne Motsepe as independent non- executive directors of the company, with effect from 1 August 2023. Muller (57) has bachelor's degrees in commerce and accountancy, is a qualified chartered accountant and has a post qualifying management development programme qualification. He has extensive experience in a variety of retail service and manufacturing industries.

He has had various roles as chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, and has had vast stakeholder engagement involvement at board level in customer facing businesses. Motsepe (66) has bachelor's degrees in law and commerce and has a master's degree in business administration. She has extensive experience in the banking industry, both in the public and the private sector, ranging from micro finance to business loans, credit cards and unsecured lending.

She has had involvement in various senior roles, including as managing director managing executive, executive director and regional general manager during her career. She is currently a non-executive director, and board committee chairman or member, of another JSE listed retailing company and has served in the past as a non-executive director on a number of other company boards and their committees. She also represents a black owned investment company as a director on the boards of its private investee companies.

The board announced that Maya Makanjee has given notice of her intention not to stand for re-election as an independent non-executive director of the company, at the company's annual general meeting scheduled for 2 November 2023 ("AGM"), and will accordingly retire from the board at the AGM. Ms Makanjee has been an independent non-executive director since February 2018, and has served as a member of the company's Social and Ethics Committee since September 2019.