Billy Rautenbach (Muller Conrad Rautenbach)

Some of Africa's big business players also feature in the leaks including Israeli Beny Steinmetz – handed a five-year jail sentence for corruption by a Swiss court in January – and Zimbabwean Billy Rautenbach both of whom boast close links to governments across the continent (AC Vol 61 No 5 Oil guns and politics & Vol 62 No 3 Steinmetz's empire unravels)...

As Trafigura announced the termination of its relationship with Sakunda two ZANU-PF Youth League executive members Tongai Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu accused Tagwirei and Billy Rautenbach head of ethanol producer Green Fuel of corruption...

His network of white moguls includes Omani tycoon Thamer Said Ahmed al Shanfari who has funded ZANU-PF in the past (AC Vol 46 No 16 Full circle); Billy Rautenbach who owns Zimbabwe's sole ethanol plant (AC Vol 53 No 4 The trouble after Katumba); John Bredenkamp who provided a helicopter that transported Mnangagwa's allies in 2004 during a plot to take up positions in the ZANU-PF Praesidium under what later became known as the Tsholotsho Declaration (AC Vol 45 No 25 A heartbeat away and AC Vol 41 No 11 Glittering prizes from the war); and the controversial British tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten (AC Vol 55 No 7 Grace under fire)...

CAMEC was then owned by tycoon Billy Rautenbach (AC Vol 49 No 14 Where the government gets its money)...

As Governor of Katanga in September 1998 Katumba signed the contracts that transferred 80% of shares in the mines and factories owned by the parastatal Gécamines to Ridgepoint a British Virgin Islands-registered company controlled by the Zimbabwean entrepreneur Billy Rautenbach...

Also listed were two businessmen John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach and Mahmood Awang Kechik a Malaysian urologist who attended Mugabe...

The latest problem for State Prosecutor Gerrit Nel is the disappearance of three star witnesses including colourful Zimbabwean businessman Billy Rautenbach...

Like previous Gécamines managing directors such as Billy Rautenbach and George Forrest Fortin is likely to return to Katanga in a private capacity but he is legally obliged to stay away for a year...

CAMEC: The Central African Mining & Exploration Company run by Billy Rautenbach's young hyperactive and forceful protégé Laurent Decalion may be Katanga's most flamboyant operation...

Washington raised the bar with the announcement on 25 November of financial sanctions against white Zimbabwean financiers John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach as well as Thailand’s Nalinee ‘Joy’ Taveesin and Mugabe’s Malaysian doctor and financial advisor Mahmood Awang Kechik...