Zungu

Under the agreement, valued at the time at about nine billion rand, or more than $1 billion, Arcelor's South African unit will lend Mr. Zungu and other BEE partners money to invest in a project with a guaranteed return over the course 14 years.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

JOHANNESBURG—As a young engineer in South Africa's apartheid era, Sandile Zungu was once asked by a white subordinate to use a separate toilet.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

Mr. Zungu and other proponents of BEE say it has done more than any other policy to bring blacks into corporate boardrooms, nearly 17 years after Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

But mounting criticism of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policy that has made that possible is pulling Mr. Zungu and other black moguls into a national debate over how to right history's wrongs without upending business in Africa's largest economy.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

Mr. Zungu says critics are judging his deal before it is complete.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

Mr. Zungu has been at the center of the BEE debate, thanks to a deal he announced last August with a unit of Luxembourg-based mining giant Arcelor Mittal .

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

The deal sparked wider controversy, though, because one of Mr. Zungu's partners is Duduzane Zuma , the son of South African President Jacob Zuma.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

Dominic Nahr for the Wall Street Journal Sandile Zungu, in his Johannesburg office, is at the center of debate over Black Economic Empowerment.

South African Program Draws Fire Peter Wonacott 2011

Those married to the Zungu of Manzini will avoid pronouncing the word amanzi (water), and call it amada.

ANC Today 2007

Zungu said trains were "power sharing" which was similar to the load shedding system.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007