Appointment of New Directors

RNS Number:2536S
Sappi Ld
1 March 2002

                                                                       Limited




Press Release



Johannesburg, 1 March 2002

Two New Directors Join the Board of Sappi

Global pulp and paper group Sappi today announced the following changes to its
Board.

Professor Meyer Feldberg and Dr Len Konar have joined the Sappi board as non-
executive directors.

Professor Feldberg has, since 1989, been the dean of Columbia Business School,
New York, internationally recognised as one of the world's top schools.  He is
professor of management at Columbia, and is also a director of several major
public companies in the United States of America, including Revlon, one of the
world's best known names in cosmetics; Federated Department Stores, the
largest department store group in the USA, UBS Brinson Advisors Funds and
Primedia Inc (USA), one of America's largest publishing companies.

Dr Len Konar, a chartered accountant, is an independent corporate consultant
based in Johannesburg.  He was previously professor and head of the department
of accountancy at the University of Durban Westville and serves as a non-
executive director of several major South African public companies, including
Old Mutual.  He is also a director of the South African Reserve Bank.

Both join the Board as from 1 March 2002.

Former Sappi executives Bill Hewitt and Ken Lechmere-Oertel, who have served
on the Board for many years, retired by rotation at the Annual General Meeting
on 25 February 2002 and, as previously reported, did not stand for
re-election.


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Notes to Editors:

Abbreviated CV's of Professor Meyer Feldberg and Dr Len Konar.

Professor Feldberg is an MBA graduate of Columbia University with a PhD from
the University of Cape Town.  He has been a visiting professor at the
Cranfield School of Management in England, the Sloan School of Management at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at INSEAD in France.  He has also
held senior positions at Northwest University's JL Kellogg Graduate School of
Management, Tulane University's AB Freeman School of Business and the Illinois
Institute of Technology.  In addition he serves on the Advisory Board of the
British American Business Council.

He is also a director of several major public companies, including Federated
Department Stores, Revlon Inc, Primedia Inc (USA), UBS Brinson Advisors Funds
and Select Medical Corporation.

Dr Konar, a chartered accountant, is a former executive director of the
Independent Development Trust and a professor and head of department of
accountancy at the University of Durban-Westville.  He is the patron of the
Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa and a member of the King Committee
on Corporate Governance, the Securities Regulation Panel, the Corporate
Governance and Risk Management Forums and the Institute of Directors.

He is also a non-executive director of Old Mutual SA, the South African
Reserve Bank, Kumba Resources, Illovo Sugar, JD Group and Steinhoff Holdings,
and chairs or serves on the audit committees of these boards and a number of
listed companies and public sector corporations.


For further information:

Andre F Oberholzer
Corporate Affairs and Communication Manager
Sappi Limited

Tel +27 (0)11 407 8044
Fax +27 (0)11 403 8236
Andre.oberholzer@za.sappi.com



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