snt industry financial services founded march 28 1918 1918 03 28 headquarters cape town south africa key people ian kirk ceo 1 hennie nel cfo grant gelink chairman products short term insurance website www.santam.co.za santam is a south african financial services group that is headquartered in cape town and listed on the johannesburg stock exchange jse . 2 3 4 the group is the leading insurer in south africa with a market share in excess of 22 % . the group provides a diversified range of general insurance products and services in southern africa and internationally through a network of more than 2700 intermediaries and direct channels . the group s more than 1 million policyholders range from individuals to commercial and specialist business owners and institutions . the group derives revenue from insurance activities and investments . insurance activities include commercial and personal insurance and alternative risk cover . the group consists of the santam branded business units santam commercial and personal santam specialist and santam re and wholly owned subsidiaries miway echelon mirabilis and centriq . included in santam specialist is a number of specialist underwriting managers . the group also holds a 100 % interest in indwe an independently managed insurance intermediary business with individual commercial and corporate clients . early in 2015 the group acquired a 100 % interest in brolink an independently managed insurance administration business . the group holds economic participation in general insurance businesses in africa india and southeast asia . the group s significant associate companies include 34 % interest in credit guarantee insurance company credit insurer 40 % interest in western national holdings personal and commercial insurer contents 1 history 2 board of directors and executive management 3 references 4 external links history edit the suid afrikaanse nasionale trust en assuransie maatskappy south african national trust and assurance company limited santam was established on 28 march 1918 . one month later the south african life assurance company sanlam was established as a full subsidiary of santam to focus on life assurance while santam remained focussed on short term insurance . 1 financial group sanlam has an effective 60 % interest in santam . board of directors and executive management edit santam s board of directors consists of twelve executives who make up the senior management team with lize lambrechts as chief executive . eleven directors serve on the board headed by current chairman grant gelink . 5 gg gelink independent non executive chairman b campbell independent non executive director md dunn independent non executive director mp fandeso independent non executive director t fubu independent non executive director btpkm gamedze non executive director l lambrechts chief executive officer mld marole independent non executive director jp m ller non executive director hd nel chief financial officer executive director y ramiah executive director mj reyneke non executive director j van zyl non executive director m allie company secretary references edit a b phakamisa ndzamela 28 august 2014 . healthier santam keeps eye on weather . business day . retrieved 5 september 2014 . santam limited jse share price in fin24 . fin24 . retrieved 5 september 2014 . mzwandile jacks 12 august 2014 . santam profit explosion boosted by improved investments . ventures africa . retrieved 5 september 2014 . sapa 27 august 2014 . insurers won t pay for quake damages . the new age online . retrieved 5 september 2014 . santam s board of directors . santam . 2014 . retrieved 5 september 2014 . external links edit santam.co.za this south african corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title santam & oldid 735229301 categories insurance companies of south africa1918 establishments in south africacompanies listed on the johannesburg stock exchangefinancial services companies of south africasouth african company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 august 2016 at 11 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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