---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001062993-23-014595"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LSAK"
cik: "0001041514"
company_name: "LESAKA TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T11:32:24.588036+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lesaka appoints Venessa Naidoo as independent director and audit committee member

## Summary
- Appointment effective July 1, 2023; term expires at next annual shareholder meeting.
- Naidoo is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with board seats at OUTsurance and RFG Holdings.
- Entitled to same compensation as other non-executive directors; standard indemnification agreement.
- No family relationships or transactions between Naidoo and the company requiring disclosure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001062993-23-014595
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LSAK
- cik: 0001041514
- company_name: LESAKA TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041514/000106299323014595/0001062993-23-014595-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041514/000106299323014595/form8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001062993-23-014595.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sharron Vanessa Naidoo was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director at LESAKA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Independent Non-Executive Director
  source text: On June 30, 2023, the board of directors (the 'Board') of Lesaka Technologies, Inc., a Florida corporation (the ' Company '), appointed Ms. Sharron Vanessa Naidoo to the Board as an independent, non-executive director, effective July 1, 2023, for a term that will expire at the Company's next annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041514/000106299323014595/0001062993-23-014595-index.htm

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