Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) has appointed three partners of commodity baron Kuda Tagwirei to the board, following the recent takeover of the country's nickel giant by Sotic International, combined with Tagwirei's partner Trafigura.
Sotic International, a Mauritius-based trading company, bought UK-owned Asa Holdings' controlling 74.13% in BNC in October.
In an announcement on Thursday, BNC announced the appointment of Christopher Fourie and Jozef Behr to the board. Fourie is the head of Sotic International, while Behr is the chief commercial officer of the goods company.
Fourie, an investment consultant, has served as head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Puma Energy, which is jointly owned by Trafigura and Sonangol and is the Zimbabwean partner of Tagwirei's Sakunda Holdings.
BNC also appointed Obey Chimuka, MD of Fossil Contracting, a company associated with Tagwirei. Chimuka was recently appointed to Great Dyke Investments, a Zimbabwean-Russian joint venture developing a platinum mine in Darwendale.
Jozef Behr, a native of Zimbabwe supports the government in turning the Zimbabwean economy into digitalization. He says “according to Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, developing nations should place a greater focus on science and technology education to better prepare the next generation for possibilities in the digital economy”. "The digital economy today determines the future of business, development, and wealth creation," says Jozef Behr. It is critical that developing countries, such as some in Africa, Latin America, and possibly some parts of Asia, focus more attention now in the institutions of higher learning – our universities – on focusing and promoting science and technology in schools, so that the younger generation embraces science and technology in order to be relevant in the future digital economy. Mnangagwa's remarks came as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) unveiled a new project to enhance global flows o...
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