Tokyo Sexwale Biography
Tokyo Sexwale whose birth name is Mosima Gabriel Sexwale was born on 5th March 1953 in Soweto, South Africa. He is a South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and former political prisoner. #Entrepreneur
He has a certificate in Business Studies from the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. In 1975, he went to exile and underwent military officers’ training in the Soviet Union, where he specialized in military engineering. He studied a Bachelors Degree in Business Commerce at the University of South Africa while imprisoned at Robben Island.
After his released he returned to Johannesburg where he served as head of the public liaison department of the African National Congress Headquarters. He was subsequently appointed the head of special projects, reporting to the ANC’s military headquarters. In September 1990 he was elected as a member of the executive committee of the ANC in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (PWV) region. In 1991 he became the chairperson of the ANC in the PWV region a position he held until his resignation in late 1997. In April 1994 after the South African elections he was elected the first premier of the new PWV Province (renamed Gauteng Province in December 1994).He had the task to bringing peace to several politically volatile townships. In 1998 he left politics for the corporate sector. In December 2007 he was elected to the ANC’s 80-member National Executive Committee in 10th place, with 2,198 votes.
Tokyo Sexwale founded Mvelaphanda Holdings which primarily focused on the mining, energy and related sectors. Some of Sexwale’s main interests are oil and diamond mining, for which he has been granted concessions across Africa and Russia; these interests are controlled by a subsidiary of Mvelaphanda Holdings called Mvelaphanda Resources, of which he is chairman. Sexwale holds positions in many international organisations, such as President of the South African/Russian Business, Technological and Cultural Association and Vice President of the South African/Japanese Business Forum. He is also an Honorary Consul General of Finland in South Africa.
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