They include the Gem Diamonds chief executive and former personal assistant to Harry Oppenheimer Clifford Elphick and the former JP Morgan bankers Mike Haworth Lloyd Pengilly and Ian Hannam...
Vol 58 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The five richest men in the country – Harry Oppenheimer (diamonds) Johann Rupert (tobacco and industrial) Christo Wiese (clothing and retail) Jacobus Petrus 'Koos' Bekker (global media) and Patrice Motsepe (mining and industrial) – have been thrown into the spotlight as the radical economic transformation campaign gains momentum...
'But the truth is that most business people want to be Harry Oppenheimer not Nelson Mandela...
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Not since the days of Harry Oppenheimer’s Anglo American Corporation has there been such a potentially powerful force influencing which African mines are developed – and when...
Vol 45 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The late gold and diamond mining tycoon Harry Oppenheimer was a big political financier...
Reinvesting in Zambia was a dream for the late Harry Oppenheimer and for Jack Holmes who worked on the Copperbelt before Anglo's mines were nationalised by former President Kenneth Kaunda...
Vol 42 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Its grandee Harry Oppenheimer saw well before the 1994 elections that times were changing and got rid of the newspapers...
Anglo particularly its eminence grise Harry Oppenheimer has wanted to take the lead role in the unbundling and privatisation of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (which had been forged out of a collection of mines mostly owned by Anglo and in which President Kenneth Kaunda’s government took a 60 per cent stake in 1982)...
(Its presiding genius Harry Oppenheimer who is now 89 has long wanted to invest in the business and make it once again a power in the world of minerals)...