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The most powerful people in African business 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Patrice Motsepe: Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals
Motsepe, 50, trained as a lawyer at the University of Witwatersrand then went on to become the first black partner at storied Johannesburg-based commercial law firm, Bowman Gilfillan.
He later founded a small contracting business doing mine scut work before buying low-producing gold shaft mines in 1994, and turned them profitable using lean management style. Today, he is the Executive Chairman of the US$5 billion (Market Capitalization) African Rainbow Minerals.
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