South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe will be the first South African to lead CAF.
South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe will become president of the troubled Confederation of African Football in Morocco Friday.JOHANNESBURG - South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe is set to become the Confederation of African Football president in Rabat on Friday and face the greatest challenge of a career littered with business successes.
Motsepe succeeds disgraced Malagasy Ahmad Ahmad, who is serving a two-year FIFA ban over"governance issues", and will require his vast array of business skills to fix the organisation. Unlike previous African football leaders, who came from national association backgrounds, his connection with the sport stems from owning record 2016 African champions Mamelodi Sundowns.
Here, AFP Sport casts the spotlight on Motsepe, from his childhood in a township near Pretoria to qualifying as a lawyer and then establishing himself as a winner in business and sport:He was born on January 28, 1962 and raised in Soweto, the huge township near Johannesburg. He then attended the world-renowned University of the Witwatersrand on the edge of the Johannesburg central business district and obtained a law degree.
He then diversified into many other business arenas, including insurance and financial services, luxury property, banking and telecommunications.Motsepe transformed Sundowns, a Pretoria club, into one of the top 10 in Africa, winning not only the Champions League but also the CAF Super Cup the following year.
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