{"id":167699,"date":"2017-03-31T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=167699"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:08:44","slug":"south-african-billionaire-given-honorary-doctorate-by-wits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/167699\/south-african-billionaire-given-honorary-doctorate-by-wits\/","title":{"rendered":"South African billionaire given honorary doctorate by Wits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of South Africa&#8217;s richest businessman, Patrice Motsepe, has been bestowed an honorary doctorate in commerce\u00a0by the University of the Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotsepe graduated with an LLB from the University in 1988. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University of Swaziland. After graduating, Motsepe joined a law firm where he specialised in mining and business law,\u201d\u00a0the university said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This background and his judicious business acumen has seen Motsepe create enterprises that positively impact countless South Africans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe is one of six recipients of honorary doctorate degrees in Wits\u2019 first graduation cluster for 2017, which runs from March 23 to 31 and more than 5,000 students will graduate during this period.<\/p>\n<p>He founded African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) in 1994\u201a which he currently chairs. He is also chairman of Harmony Gold (HAR)\u201a in which ARM is a shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recently released rich list by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/162879\/these-are-the-richest-billionaires-in-south-africa-in-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurun<\/a><\/strong>, Motsepe is currently the 5th wealthiest billionaire in South Africa with a network of\u00a0$1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/162879\/these-are-the-richest-billionaires-in-south-africa-in-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">These are the richest billionaires in South Africa in 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of South Africa&#8217;s richest businessman, Patrice Motsepe, has been bestowed an honorary doctorate in commerce by the University of the Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-167699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167699"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167717,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699\/revisions\/167717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}