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Article: A complex personality. (the new South African businessman) (Cover Story)
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- African Business
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- September 1, 1994
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The profile of the new South African businessman, writes Mushtag Parker, is anintriguing compound. It is made up of the thrusting new Black entrepreneur, the established White capitalist and the emerging Asian tycoon.
The opening up of the "new" South Africa has unleashed a flood of trade and business opportunities in the entire region. For the South African businessman, the most glittering prizes are to be found in the neighbouring African states, North Africa and other major African economies such as Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya.
Thanks to its highly developed communications, economic and financial infrastructure, South Africa is rightly perceived as the ...