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The Inside Story: Two Fronts — How Patrice Motsepe Built a Mining Fortune and a Football Presidency, and the Week Both Came Under Pressure

In 1997 a young Johannesburg lawyer bought gold shafts the big miners were giving up. Today Patrice Motsepe runs African Rainbow Minerals and African football. This week both came under pressure: a lawsuit from his mining partner and unrest inside CAF. The man, and the two fronts.

,   and  Mfonobong Nsehe
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The Inside Story: Two Fronts — How Patrice Motsepe Built a Mining Fortune and a Football Presidency, and the Week Both Came Under Pressure

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