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Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
South Africa

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri

Former Minister of Communications

Date of Birth: 18/09/1937
Place of Birth: Kroonstad, Free State
Died: 06/04/09

Commentary: When Communications Minister, Ivy Matsepe Casaburri awarded South Africa's third cellular telephone licence to the Saudi and US-backed Cell C consortium in a move seen as paving the way for Mbeki's trade negotiations in 2001. She was a close ally of Mbeki and a Minister of Communications in his cabinet from 1999 until her death in 2009.