Billy Rautenbach (Muller Conrad Rautenbach)

Camec run by former England cricketer Phil Edmonds (AC Vol 49 No 8; an associate of Billy Rautenbach and investor in Southern Sudan's oil) acquired platinum interests from Anglo in the same area in April when it bought Lefever for $5 mn...

• Billy Rautenbach: He was declared persona non grata in Congo and is wanted on murder charges in South Africa...

The Justice Ministry asked the mining registry on 30 August to withdraw the registration of CAMEC’s mining permit primarily because of its long-term association with Zimbabwean businessman Billy Rautenbach who had been running day-to-day operations on CAMEC’s properties and from whom it obtained the concessions in the first place...

Forrest is involved in another battle over the future of Katanga mining with his old sparring partner Zimbabwean businessman Billy Rautenbach...

CAMEC's shares have risen more than 700 per cent thanks to the involvement of Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach who is now a 17-20% shareholder...

Billy Rautenbach has done much the same at the Congo Cobalt Corp...

from a similar deal with Congo-Kinshasa negotiated by Zimbabwean Billy Rautenbach...

Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa: Speaker of parliament and former Security Minister; ZANU-PF Secretary for Finance and Chairman of ZANU's ZIDCO Holdings; Mnangagwa was Chairman of ZANU's old financing vehicle M & S Investments and is Chairman of asbestos exporter Fibrolite (joint venture with Armando Godinko); he is also a director of Opporto Investments Galant Distribution Galhold Investments Woolworth Trading and Treasure Holdings; most lucrative has been his management of ZANU's and the military's investments and trade deals in Congo-K where he is a kingpin of the regional diamond trade; Mnangagwa's key business associates are two white Zimbabweans Billy Rautenbach (for whom Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant) and British-based John Bredenkamp; and an Omani Thamer al-Shanfari...

Equally non-transparent were Gécamines' contracts first with Billy Rautenbach's Ridgepoint then with Etablissements George Forrest International whose Director now heads the Gécamines board...

The departed uncles all State (senior) Ministers are Gaëtan Kakudji (Interior number two to his cousin Laurent) Abdoulaye Yérodia Ndombasi (Education) and Pierre-Victor Mpoyo (Minister without Portfolio and the man behind the controversial mining contracts with Zimbabwe's Billy Rautenbach...