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Inner circles | South Africa
How Daphne Mashile-Nkosi has kept the helm of troubled Kalagadi Manganese

Daphne Mashile-Nkosi,CEO of Kalagadi Manganese. © The Africa CEO Forum

Threatened last month with exclusion from the management of Kalagadi Manganese, the mining company she founded, Daphne Mashile-Nkosi has managed, for now at least, to remain in charge of this major South African concern. Her long-running ties to some of the ANC's top officials might have played in her favour. [...]

Published on 18.06.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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