African Business, March 1st, 2004
Japhet Ncube profiles Patrice Motsepe, one of Africa's greatest entrepreneurs.
He is personally worth a cool R4bn. Probably more. And at 42, Patrice Motsepe is probably South Africa's youngest, wealthiest black businessman.
Suave, articulate, and with a dry sense of humour, there is no doubt Motsepe is on the road to becoming the country's richest black mining magnet, joining the billionaire league from virtually nowhere.
Only a few years ago he was a struggling lawyer, and when he entered the business world very few people gave him a second look.
But now the man named after Patrice Lumu...
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