Master Drilling Group Limited announced that in compliance with section 3.59 (c) of the JSE Limited Listings Requirements, shareholders are advised: Non-executive director, Andries Willem Brink has stepped down as chairman and member of the SES Committee with immediate effect. Independent non-executive director Akhter Alli Deshmukh, a member of the SES Committee, has been appointed as chairman of the SES Committee with alternate executive director Eddie George Dixon being appointed as a member of the SES Committee with immediate effect.