51-447: Rautenbach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Billy Rautenbach (born 1959), Zimbabwean businessman Conrad Rautenbach (born 1984), Zimbabwean rally driver Faan Rautenbach (born 1976), South African rugby union player Jans Rautenbach (1936–2016), South African screenwriter, film producer, and director [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
102-628: A United Nations panel in 2001, was that Rautenbach had been appointed to Gécamines to help channel mining profits from the DRC to the ZANU-PF regime, in exchange for Zimbabwean military support for Kabila's forces in the Second Congo War . He was reportedly an associate of ZANU-PF government minister Emmerson Mnangagwa , who became president in 2018. In 1999, Rautenbach denied the allegations, saying that he had never met Robert Mugabe . In 2008, Camec
153-606: A 50% stake in Hyundai 's operations in South Africa and Botswana, and owning the Volvo heavy vehicle franchise in thirteen African countries. He also had business interests in construction, land, and mining. Rautenbach's flight from fraud and corruption charges in South Africa in late 1999 ( see below ) coincided with the financial collapse of several of his southern African business interests. By February 2000, several companies in
204-747: A bar and brothel in Kigoma, Tanzania. In 1967, Kabila and his remnant of supporters moved their operation into the mountainous Fizi – Baraka area of South Kivu in the Congo, and founded the People's Revolutionary Party (PRP). With the support of the People's Republic of China, the PRP created a secessionist Marxist state in South Kivu province, west of Lake Tanganyika . The PRP state came to an end in 1988 and Kabila disappeared and
255-460: A few months before Guevara judged Kabila (then age 26) as "not the man of the hour" he had alluded to, being too distracted and his men poorly trained and disciplined. This, in Guevara's opinion, accounted for Kabila showing up days late at times to provide supplies, aid, or backup to Guevara's men. Kabila preferred to spend most of his time at local bars or brothels instead of training his men or fighting
306-471: A plea bargain, agreed to pay a fine of R40 million in exchange for the withdrawal of the charges against him, having continued to deny personal liability. Rautenbach launched a legal challenge against the validity of the 1999 raids, and of the evidence seized in the process, with the Constitutional Court ultimately ruling against him. In court papers, the state claimed that Rautenbach was linked to
357-538: A special military tribunal . The alleged ringleader, Colonel Eddy Kapend (one of Kabila's cousins), and 25 others were sentenced to death in January 2003, but not executed. Of the remaining defendants, 64 were incarcerated, with sentences from six months to life, and 45 were exonerated. Some individuals were also accused of being involved in a plot to overthrow his son. Among them was Kabila's special advisor Emmanuel Dungia , former ambassador to South Africa. Many people believe
408-513: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Billy Rautenbach Muller Conrad ' Billy ' Rautenbach is a Zimbabwean businessman, whose ventures include companies that are involved in transport, cobalt, platinum mining , and biofuel production, primarily in Africa. The 2022 Data Leaks at Credit Suisse appears to confirm allegations, for which he had faced American and European sanctions in earlier years that Rautenbach used
459-676: Is held in Rautenbach's wife's name, but in leaked documents financial advisors identified Rautenbach as the "effective controller" of the fund. In his youth, Rautenbach pursued rally racing. His son Conrad Rautenbach is a rally driver, competing in the World Rally Championship full time in 2008 and 2009. Laurent-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9 Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila ( French pronunciation: [lo.ʁɑ̃ de.zi.ʁe ka.bi.la] ; 27 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) usually known as Laurent Kabila ( US : pronunciation ),
510-667: The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFLC), a Rwandan and Ugandan -sponsored rebel group that invaded Zaire and overthrew Mobutu during the First Congo War from 1996 to 1997. Having now become the new president of the country, whose name was changed back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kabila found himself in a delicate position as a puppet of his foreign backers. The following year, he ordered
561-819: The Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation . Yet by 2007, Rautenbach was again an unpopular figure among some DRC politicians. Camec had been building a stake in Katanga Mining , but faced government opposition at least partly due to the involvement of Rautenbach, who at the time was wanted for fraud by the South African authorities. In July 2007, Rautenbach was detained in Katanga and deported to Zimbabwe. Moise Katumbi , governor of Katanga, said, "Even if we have as yet no extradition facilities in place, we will not continue to allow such people to operate in
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#1733094025074612-865: The Luba people in Baudouinville, Katanga Province , (now Moba , Tanganyika Province ), or Jadotville, Katanga Province , (now Likasi , Haut-Katanga Province ) in the Belgian Congo . His father was a Luba and his mother was a Lunda ; his father's ethnicity was defining in the patriarchal kinship system. It is claimed that he studied abroad (political philosophy in Paris , got a PhD in Tashkent , in Belgrade and at last in Dar es Salaam ), but no proof has been found or provided. Shortly after
663-553: The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). He faced charges for crimes he had allegedly committed while at Hyundai, including numerous counts of fraud and theft. In March 2007, South African authorities filed for his extradition from Zimbabwe. On 18 September 2009, Rautenbach handed himself over to the NPA. Charged with 326 counts of fraud, he pleaded guilty on behalf of one of his companies, SA Botswana Hauliers, and, in
714-417: The surname Rautenbach . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rautenbach&oldid=1049262930 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
765-591: The 1994 genocide in Rwanda, refugee camps along the Zaire-Rwanda border became militarized with Hutu militia vowing to retake power in Rwanda . The Kigali regime considered these militias as a security threat and was seeking a way to dismantle those refugee camps. After Kigali had expressed its security concerns to Kinshasa, requesting that refugee camps get moved further inside the country, and Kinshasa ignored these concerns, Kigali believed that only military option could solve
816-512: The Congo achieved independence in 1960, Katanga seceded under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe . Kabila organised the Baluba in an anti-secessionist rebellion in Manono . In September 1962 a new province, North Katanga , was established. He became a member of the provincial assembly and served as chief of cabinet for Minister of Information Ferdinand Tumba. In September 1963 he and other young members of
867-577: The Congolese government forces. The lack of cooperation between Kabila and Guevara contributed to the suppression of the revolt in November that same year. In Guevara's view, of all of the people he met during his campaign in Congo, only Kabila had "genuine qualities of a mass leader"; but Guevara castigated Kabila for a lack of "revolutionary seriousness". After the failure of the rebellion, Kabila turned to smuggling gold and timber on Lake Tanganyika. He also ran
918-625: The Constitution and changed the name of the country from Zaire to the Democratic Republic of the Congo—the country's official name from 1964 to 1971. He made his grand entrance into Kinshasa on 20 May and was sworn in on 31 May, officially commencing his tenure as president. Kabila had previously been a committed Marxist, but his policies at this point were social democratic . He declared that elections would not be held for two years, since it would take him at least that long to restore order. While some in
969-535: The DRC with impunity." In November 1999, after investigating Rautenbach for about two years, South African law enforcement conducted a raid on Rautenbach's Johannesburg home and private aircraft, as well as the Johannesburg offices of Wheels of Africa. Following the raid, and amid financial strain in his South African business interests, Rautenbach fled South Africa. On 19 September 2000, Rautenbach's South African assets, worth at least R40 million, were seized by
1020-575: The Mugabe regime's "cronies" and claiming that he had provided Mugabe with support which had enabled the latter to pursue anti-democratic policies. The sanctions remained in place until April 2014. Rautenbach was also subject to targeted European Union sanctions, from January 2009 until February 2012, for his alleged association with the ZANU-PF regime. The 2022 Data Leaks at Credit Suisse appeared to confirm earlier allegations that Rautenbach had supported
1071-418: The Mugabe regime's campaign during the 2008 Zimbabwean elections. Credit Suisse opened two accounts for Rautenbach weeks before a mining deal that funneled $ 100 million to Mugabe’s government, reportedly used to incite violence that helped Mugabe win the election. Rautenbach was able to sell his shares from the deal for a huge profit, but the mine was left undeveloped for over a decade. In 2014, Temba Mliswa,
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#17330940250741122-648: The Nuanetsi Ranch board over land on Nuanetsi Ranch on the Mwenezi River , to which Rautenbach first gained access in 2009. As reported by amaBhungane in the Daily Maverick , Rautenbach was named in the 2021 Pandora Papers leak. The leak provided evidence of a complex offshore family trust fund, begun in 2013 when Rautenbach, while still under American sanctions, donated multimillion-dollar investments in his coal and ethanol businesses to his wife. The fund
1173-483: The West hailed Kabila as representing a "new breed" of African leadership, critics charged that Kabila's policies differed little from his predecessor's, being characterised by authoritarianism, corruption, and human rights abuses. As early as late 1997, Kabila was being denounced as "another Mobutu". Kabila was also accused trying to set up a personality cult . Mobutu's former minister of information, Dominique Sakombi Inongo ,
1224-495: The Wheels of Africa group had been liquidated, leaving significant debts in southern Africa. Rautenbach did not return to South Africa until 2009, when he reached a R40 million plea agreement with prosecutors. In the late 1990s, Rautenbach became involved in mining ventures in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 1998, following Mbaka Kawaya Swana Ambroise , DRC President Laurent-Désiré Kabila appointed him chief executive of
1275-599: The Zimbabwean government. According to amaBhungane , local activists claim that Green Fuel has encroached on communal land in Chipinge, displacing thousands of families, without sufficient compensation. They also claim that the firm has polluted the water, bulldozed maize fields to build a road, and failed to honour its promises to pay sugarcane growers $ 4 a tonne. Chipinge residents, supported by non-profit Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights , are challenging Green Fuel's claim to
1326-582: The assembly were forced to resign, facing allegations of communist sympathies. Kabila established himself as a supporter of hard-line Lumumbist Prosper Mwamba Ilunga . When the Lumumbists formed the Conseil National de Libération , he was sent to eastern Congo to help organize a revolution, in particular in the Kivu and North Katanga provinces. This revolution was part of the larger Simba rebellions happening in
1377-690: The biggest in the country, in Chisumbanje, under which it provided drip irrigation equipment and plots to villagers. The company has also denied claims that the plant's effluent is a pollutant. Cde Basil Nyabadza of the Arda board said in 2015 that the project was justified on the grounds that it would reduce Zimbabwe's import bill. Indeed, according to Bloomberg , the project reduces Zimbabwe's spending on fuel imports by about one-tenth, or $ 40 million, per year. Voice of America reported in 2011 that it had created 4,500 jobs, "more jobs... than any other [project] in
1428-487: The business world began when he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa. Rautenbach's first venture was the expansion of his father's transport company, named 'Wheels of Africa'. The company became a significant player in southern Africa, with the Financial Mail estimating that it controlled 75% of the Zimbabwean haulage market in 1999. Wheels of Africa also expanded into car assembly and distribution, Rautenbach held
1479-451: The departure of all foreign troops from the country following the Kasika massacre to prevent a potential coup, leading to the Second Congo War , in which his former Rwandan and Ugandan allies began sponsoring several rebel groups to overthrow him. During the war, he was assassinated by one of his bodyguards, and was succeeded ten days later by his 29-year-old son Joseph . Kabila was born to
1530-458: The issue. However, a military operation inside Zaire was likely be seen by the international community as an invasion . A plan was put in place to foment a rebellion that would serve as a cover. The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL) was then born with Rwanda's blessing, and with Kabila as its spokesperson. By mid-1997, the AFDL had almost completely overrun the country and
1581-576: The land in the courts. A 2015 report by the Zimbabwean Parliament 's Portfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment echoed many of these accusations, and concluded that the project was against the country's indigenisation laws. It also learned from the Environmental Management Agency that Green Fuel had not conducted a full environmental impact assessment study, as required by legislation, before initiating
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1632-569: The last 20 years"; by 2021, it employed about 3,000 people. In July 2021, several Zimbabwean newspapers reported that Green Fuel security guards had razed crops and destroyed houses in Chinyamukwakwa, Chipinge , affecting thousands of villagers, in order to facilitate Green Fuel's expansion in the area. According to the headman of the village, thousands of displaced residents of Chipinge were resettling in neighbouring Mozambique. Rautenbach and Green Fuel have also been involved in disputes with
1683-530: The murder of Yong Koo Kwon of Daewoo Motors , who had been shot dead in his car in Johannesburg in February 1999. Rautenbach emphatically denied any involvement in the murder, and described the allegations as a "witch-hunt." No charges were ever laid against Rautenbach, and three other men were charged with the murder in 2006. Two months after striking the 2009 plea bargain with the NPA, Rautenberg testified for
1734-517: The proceeds from a mining deal to support the ZANU-PF regime of dictator Robert Mugabe , during the latter's repressive 2008 election campaign in Zimbabwe. From 1999 to 2009, Rautenbach was a fugitive from fraud and corruption charges in South Africa . Rautenbach was born in 1959 in then Salisbury, Rhodesia . He inherited a Rhodesia-based trucking company from his father, Wessels, and his rise in
1785-412: The project. Green Fuel has denied the accusations, saying that, through its corporate social responsibility programme, Vimbo, it has spent millions of dollars on developing the neighbouring villages, and provided irrigation, electricity, and stock feed to villagers. It has committed to develop as irrigation schemes 10% of all land put under sugar cane, and, in 2021, it unveiled one such scheme, among
1836-546: The prosecution in the corruption trial of Jackie Selebi , National Commissioner of the South African Police Service . Selebi was accused of accepting bribes from Rautenbach and two other businessmen. During the trial, convicted drug smuggler Glen Agliotti testified that Selebi had been asked to intervene in NPA and South African Revenue Service investigations into Rautenbach, to cancel Rautenbach's arrest warrant, and to provide information about whether Rautenbach
1887-413: The provinces at the time. In 1965, Kabila set up a cross-border rebel operation from Kigoma , Tanzania, across Lake Tanganyika . Kabila met Che Guevara for the first time in late April 1965 where Guevara had appeared in the Congo with approximately 100 Cuban men who envisaged to bring about a Cuban-style revolution to overthrow the Congolese government. Guevara assisted Kabila and his rebel forces for
1938-629: The provincial chairperson for Zanu-PF in Mashonaland West and a Member of the Zimbabwean Parliament , accused Rautenbach of bribing Arda board chairperson Basil Nyabadza, claiming that he had bought Nyabadza a house in exchange for preferential treatment. Nyabadza denied the allegations, and Rautenbach called Mliswa – who at the time was demanding millions of dollars he claimed Rautenbach owed him for investment consulting services – an "extortionist." In 2019, Mliswa made various further accusations about Rautenbach's ventures in Zimbabwe and connections to
1989-478: The remains of Mobutu's army. Only the country's decrepit infrastructure slowed Kabila's forces down; in many areas, the only means of transit were irregularly used dirt paths. Following failed peace talks held on board of the South African ship SAS Outeniqua , Mobutu fled into exile on 16 May. The next day, from his base in Lubumbashi , Kabila declared victory and installed himself as president . Kabila suspended
2040-575: The rights to half of the Mukondo mine and to two other mining concessions in the Katanga province of the DRC. In February 2006, he became a major shareholder in the Central African Mining and Exploration Company (Camec), receiving a 17% share when it acquired those mining rights. He owned 8% of Camec shares as of July 2007, and reportedly made an estimated $ 50 million from the 2009 sale of Camec to
2091-448: The south and west of the country and by July 1999, peace talks led to the withdrawal of most foreign forces. On 16 January 2001, Kabila was shot in his office at the Palais de Marbre and subsequently transported to Zimbabwe for medical treatment. The DRC's authorities managed to keep power, despite Kabila's assassination. The exact circumstances are still contested. Kabila reportedly died on
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2142-515: The spot, according to DRC's then-health minister Leonard Mashako Mamba , who was in the next door office when Kabila was shot and arrived immediately after the assassination. The government claimed that Kabila was still alive, however, and he was flown to a hospital in Zimbabwe after he was shot so that DRC authorities could organize the succession. The Congolese government announced that he had died of his wounds on 18 January. One week later, his body
2193-477: The state-owned mining company, Gécamines . Before his appointment, Wheels of Africa had held transport contracts with Gécamines, and Rautenbach's company, Ridgepointe Overseas Development Limited, had successfully managed at least three of its copper and cobalt mines, increasing their revenue. He was removed as Gécamines chief executive – apparently acrimoniously – in 2000, and his Congolese assets were seized. Rautenbach controlled Boss Mining Ltd, which held
2244-581: The trial was flawed and the convicted defendants innocent; doubts are summarized in an Al Jazeera investigative film, Murder in Kinshasa . In January 2021, DRC's President Félix Tshisekedi pardoned all those convicted in the murder of Laurent-Désiré Kabila in 2001. Colonel Eddy Kapend and his co-defendants, who have been incarcerated for 15 years, were released. He had at least nine children with his wife Sifa Mahanya: Josephine, Cécile, Fifi, Selemani, twins Jaynet and Joseph , Zoé , Anina and Tetia. He
2295-517: Was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassination in 2001. Kabila became known during the 1960s Congo Crisis as an opponent of Mobutu Sese Seko . He took part in the Simba rebellion and led the Communist-aligned Fizi rebel territory until the 1980s. In the 1990s, Kabila re-emerged as leader of
2346-463: Was involved in a controversial deal, in which, through the purchase of another company, it provided a $ 100 million payment, referred to as a loan in exchange for the acquisition of Zimbabwean platinum assets, previously owned by Anglo American Platinum , which the Zimbabwean government had taken control of. The payment was financed with capital raised primarily from the American hedge fund Och-Ziff , and
2397-569: Was reportedly used by ZANU-PF to fund its repressive 2008 election campaign. Shortly afterwards, in October 2008, the American embassy in Zimbabwe investigated Rautenbach for his involvement in off-the-book sales of vehicles to the Zimbabwean government. In November 2008, the United States Treasury Department designated Rautenbach and a company he controlled, Ridgepointe Overseas Development Ltd – for sanctions, calling him one of
2448-734: Was retained by Kabila; he branded Kabila as "the Mzee," and created posters reading "Here is the man we needed" ( French : Voici l'homme que nous avions besoin ) appeared all over the country. By 1998, Kabila's former allies in Uganda and Rwanda had turned against him and backed a new rebellion of the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) and the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC). Kabila found new allies in Angola , Namibia and Zimbabwe , and managed to hold on in
2499-523: Was returned to Congo for a state funeral and his son, Joseph Kabila , became president ten days later. By doing so, DRC officials were accomplishing the "verbal testimony" of the deceased President. Then Justice Minister Mwenze Kongolo and Kabila's aide-de-camp Eddy Kapend reported that Kabila had told them that his son Joseph, then number two of the army, should take over, if he were to die in office. The investigation into Kabila's assassination led to 135 people, including four children, being tried before
2550-548: Was wanted by Interpol , of which Selebi was president. Agliotti said, and Rautenbach confirmed, that Rautenbach paid $ 100 000 to Agliotti, who channelled $ 30 000 to Selebi. Critics alleged that Rautenbach had been appointed to Gécamines, the Congolese state-owned mining company, at the request of the Zimbabwean ruling party, ZANU-PF – indeed, in 1999 the Guardian called the existence of such an arrangement "a widespread assumption in diplomatic circles." The allegation, as made by
2601-558: Was widely believed to be dead. While in Kampala , Kabila reportedly met Yoweri Museveni , the future president of Uganda . Museveni and former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere later introduced Kabila to Paul Kagame , who would become president of Rwanda . These personal contacts became vital in mid-1990s, when Uganda and Rwanda sought a Congolese face for their intervention in Zaire . As Rwandan Hutu refugees fled to Congo (then Zaire ) after
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