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Christine Ramon
Kandimathie Christine Ramon (born 1968 or 1969) is a South African businesswoman and chartered accountant. Before taking early retirement in 2022, she was the Chief Financial Officer at AngloGold Ashanti, where she was also interim chief executive officer between 2020 and 2021. Before that, she was the chief financial officer at Sasol and the chief executive officer at Cyril Ramaphosa's Johnnic Holdings. Early life and career Ramon was born in 1968 or 1969 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. She was one of five siblings, including a twin sister. After finishing high school, she worked part-time for the Mthatha office of Coopers & Lybrand while studying accounting through the University of South Africa. In 1988, she graduated with her bachelor's degree, and at age 23, she – like three of her four siblings – qualified as a chartered accountant. She remained at Coopers & Lybrand until 1994, working as an auditor at the firm's offices in South Africa and in Verona, Italy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Elizabeth
Gqeberha ( , ), formerly named Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa's second-smallest metropolitan municipality by area. It is the sixth-most populous city in South Africa and is the cultural, economic and financial hub of the Eastern Cape. Gqeberha was founded in 1820 as Port Elizabeth by Rufane Shaw Donkin, Sir Rufane Donkin, who was the governor of the Cape at the time. He named it after his wife, Elizabeth, who had died in India. The Donkin Memorial in the Central business district, CBD of the city bears testament to this. It was established by the government of the Cape Colony when 4,000 British colonists settled in Algoa Bay to strengthen the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa people, Xhosa. It is nicknamed "The Friendly City" or "The Windy City". In 2019, the Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hosken Consolidated Investments
Hosken Consolidated Investments (officially Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited, and abbreviated to HCI) is a South African investment holding company, based in Cape Town. Founded in 1973, the company is a Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) entity, and has holdings in various industries, including television, real estate, and hospitality. Operations HCI has operations across South Africa, as well as in Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, India, South Korea, the UAE, Indonesia, China, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The company has investments across industries including television, real estate, gambling, transport, hospitality, golf, mining, and oil. As of May 2025, HCI held the following investments: HCI is listed on the South African JSE Limited stock exchange. Ownership Shareholders with a greater than 5% ownership of HCI are the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Clicks Holdings Limited
Clicks (officially Clicks Group Limited) is a South African healthcare, personal care, and cosmetics, beauty retail chain. Headquartered in Cape Town, the company operates over 1,000 retail outlets, the majority of which include pharmacies, across Southern Africa. History Clicks was founded in St George's Street, Cape Town, on 6 August 1968, by retailer Jack Goldin. The company expanded outside the Western Cape in 1971, when it opened a store in West Street, in Durban. Clicks launched its ClubCard loyalty program (the first of its kind in Africa) in 1995. In 2001, the company launched The Body Shop, a natural beauty product retailer that operates under a franchise agreement with The Body Shop International. Following the 2003 changes to South African legislation which allowed for corporate pharmacy ownership, Clicks entered the retail pharmacy market with the opening of the first Clicks pharmacy in 2004, in Sea Point, Cape Town. Also in 2003, the company was listed on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company () is a British Multinational company, multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates Service (economics), services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vodafone owns and operates networks in 15 countries, with partner networks in 46 further countries. Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to corporate clients in 150 countries. Vodafone has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company has a secondary listing on the NASDAQ as American depositary receipts (ADRs). Name The name Vodafone comes from ''voice data fone'' (the latter a sensational spelling of "telephone, phone"), chosen by the company to "reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones". History Racal Telecom: 1980 to 1991 In 1980, Ernest Harrison, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Retirement
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their job for health reasons. People may also retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits, although some are forced to retire when bodily conditions no longer allow the person to work any longer (by illness or accident) or as a result of legislation concerning their positions. In most countries, the idea of retirement is of recent origin, being introduced during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Previously, low life expectancy, lack of social security and the absence of pension arrangements meant that most workers continued to work until their death. Germany was the first country to introduce retirement benefits in 1889. Nowadays, most developed countries have systems to provide pensions on retirement in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ramos
Maria da Conceição das Neves Calha Ramos (born 1959) is a South African businesswoman and former civil servant. She is currently the group chair of Standard Chartered, a position she has held since May 2025. Ramos was the chief executive officer of the Absa Group from March 2009 to February 2019, during which time she oversaw the company's unbundling from Barclays. An economist by training, she was formerly the director-general of the National Treasury (South Africa), South African National Treasury from 1996 to 2004 and the chief executive officer of Transnet from 2004 to 2009. She left Absa in 2019 to take retirement but nonetheless was chairperson of AngloGold Ashanti from December 2020 to May 2024. Early life and career Ramos was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 22 February 1959. She was the eldest of four daughters and her parents emigrated to Mozambique and then, when Ramos was six years old, to Vereeniging, South Africa. Her family was working class; her father was a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan is an Indian-born UK mining and restructuring executive. He is the chairman of Endeavour Mining. He joined Weir Group in January 2021, and BlackRock World Mining Trust in August 2021 both as a non-executive director. He previously was CEO of Vedanta Resources plc between 2018 and 2020 and was CEO of AngloGold Ashanti Limited between 2013 and 2018, having previously been chief financial officer of the business from 2005, and of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuasi, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. Du ... from 2000. He is a chartered accountant and commerce graduate from the University of Madras, India. References Businesspeople of Indian descent Living people University of Madras alumni 1966 births {{India-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining. Historically, mining gold from Alluvium, alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation. In the 20th and 21st centuries, most volume of mining was done by large corporations. However, the value of gold has led to millions of small, Artisanal mining, artisanal miners in many parts of the Global South. Like all mining, Mining#Human rights, human rights and Environmental effects of mining, environmental issues are common in the gold mining industry, and can result in environmental conflict. In mines with less regulation, health and safety risks are much higher. History The exact date that humans first began to mine gold is unknown, but some of the oldest known gold artifacts were found in the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria. The graves of the necropolis were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTN Group
MTN Group Limited (formerly M-Cell) is a South Africa, South African multinational corporation and mobile telecommunications provider. Its head office is in Johannesburg. MTN is among the List of mobile network operators, largest mobile network operators in the world, and the largest in Africa. MTN is active in over 20 countries including Asian countries like Syria, with one-third of company revenue generated in Nigeria, where it held about 35 percent market share in 2016, and 289.1 million subscribers in December 2022. MTN Group is the primary sponsorship, sponsor of the South Africa national rugby union team and sponsors English football club Manchester United F.C., Manchester United and Zambian Super League. The Nigerian subsidiary of the group also has an existing sponsorship deal with the Nigeria Football Federation, Nigerian Football Federation. History The company was founded in 1994 as M-Cell with assistance from the South African government. In 1995, it replaced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Rand
The South African rand, or simply the rand, (currency sign, sign: R; ISO 4217, code: ZAR) is the official currency of South Africa. It is subdivided into 100 Cent (currency), cents (sign: "c"), and a comma separates the rand and cents. The South African rand is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area member states of Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini, with these three countries also having national currencies: (the Namibian dollar, dollar, the Lesotho loti, loti and the Swazi lilangeni, lilangeni respectively) pegged with the rand at parity and still widely accepted as substitutes. The rand was also legal tender in Botswana until 1976 when the Botswana pula, pula replaced the rand at par. The rand is legal tender in Zimbabwe as part of its multiple currency system, which also includes other currencies such as the euro, the pound sterling, the US dollar, and the Zimbabwean ZiG. Etymology The rand takes its name from the Witwatersrand ("white waters' ridge" in English, being t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Economic Empowerment
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people. A form of affirmative action, it is intended especially to redress the inequalities created by apartheid. The policy provides incentives – especially preferential treatment in government procurement processes – to businesses which contribute to black economic empowerment according to several measurable criteria, including through partial or majority black ownership, hiring black employees, and contracting with black-owned suppliers. The preferential procurement aspect of BEE has been viewed as paradigmatic of a sustainable procurement approach, whereby government procurement is used to advance social policy objectives. So-called "BEE deals" – transactions aiming to increase black ownership of large businesses – have been conducted on a large scale, with BEE transactions concluded between 1994 and 2005 valued at betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
