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Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg

Date of Birth: 14 April 1957
Place of Birth: Drohobych, Ukraine


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Parties prepare for the costliest election

The ANC has also been richly funded over the years by UMK in which Chancellor House has a stake – as does a company linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg according to the Amabhungane investigative journalism group...

A key conduit of funding for the ANC is United Manganese of Kalahari a mine in which both Chancellor House and sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg have shareholdings (AC Vol 63 No 13 How manganese pipeline helps the ANC)...


How money talks in national elections

According to the IEC's report for the period from October to end-December last year the largest donations were made to the ANC in the form of a R15m ($824 000) in-kind payment to the tax collector (South Africa Revenue Service) by the Batho Batho Trust and a further R15m ($824 000) from Viktor Vekselberg's United Manganese Kalahari (UMK) to cover the costs of the ANC's elective conference in December last year (Dispatches 23/12/22 Ramaphosa's win in ANC elections opens a door to policy shifts and reshuffles)...

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Truss and Ramaphosa try a crisis reset

More critical to both are the ties between the financially weakened ANC and Russian oligarchs such as Viktor Vekselberg who is investing in an extensive manganese mine in South Africa (AC Vol 63 No 13 How manganese pipeline helps the ANC)...


Opposition leader Steenhuisen seeks coalition deal

To those who wondered why the ANC took the position it did on Ukraine he said 'follow the money' pointing to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg as the party's biggest donor (AC Vol 63 No 13 How manganese pipeline helps the ANC)...


How manganese pipeline helps the ANC

A transparency law on political party funding has embarrassed the ruling African National Congress by revealing its links to Viktor Vekselberg a Russian oligarch under global sanctions...


Diplomacy on ice

The largest investor in the highly profitable United Manganese Kalahari (UMC) mine is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg who was already a 'designated' person in the US before the Russian invasion...


Partnerships, promises and failures

Renova headed by Viktor Vekselberg in South Africa owns the Transalloys manganese smelter in Mpumalanga and 49% of the United Manganese of Kalahari mine in the Northern Cape...


Nuclear nexus

Renova owned by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and advised by Roderick Fleming won lucrative manganese concessions in 2005 after backing from Africa National Congress stalwarts...


New powers, new policy

A Russian magnate Viktor Vekselberg says his Renova Group plans to invest in African mining projects from its base in Johannesburg; it already owns 49 per cent of United Manganese of Kalahari...


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