Robert Michael Godsell (Bobby)

The Eminent Persons Group includes former mining executive Bobby Godsell; ANC stalwart Barbara Masekela; former Democratic Alliance leader Lindiwe Mazibuko; constitutional negotiator Roelf Meyer; business leader Gloria Serobe; humanitarian and founder of the Gift of the Givers Foundation Imtiaz Sooliman; and award-winning rocket scientist Siyabulela Xuza...

More discreet boardroom activists include: • Colin Coleman head of Goldman Sachs in South Africa; • Mark Lamberti CEO of Imperial Holdings; • Maria Ramos CEO of Barclays Africa Group; • Ian Kirk CEO of Sanlam; • Johan Rupert the billionaire industrialist; • former Business Leadership South Africa head Bobby Godsell; • Johan van Zyl of Toyota; • Johan Burger CEO of First Rand; • Trevor Manuel long-standing anti-apartheid activist ex-Finance Minister and now chairman of Old Mutual; • Mike Brown CEO of Nedbank; • Mark Cutifani CEO of Anglo American; • Steve Koseff outgoing global CEO of Investec; • Tony Tabatznik a London-based billionaire etc...

' These concessions followed a meeting on 13 December of Radebe and Mkhize with an extremely high-powered business delegation that included the Barclays Africa Group Chief Executive Officer Maria Ramos; Goldman Sachs' South Africa head Colin Coleman; Investec Bank's global Chief Executive Officer Stephen Koseff; Imperial Holdings' CEO Mark Lamberti; Sanlam CEO Ian Kirk; Business Leadership South Africa Chairman Bobby Godsell; Toyota Europe CEO Johan van Zyl and FirstRand CEO Johan Petrus Burger...

Others include Jerry Vilakazi Chief Executive of Business Unity SA; Bobby Godsell former Chairman of the power utility Eskom; Vincent Maphai former head of BHP-Billiton’s local operation; property developer Noluthando Gosa; building contractor Bridgette Gasa; Elias Masilela a Sanlam executive; and Thandabantu Goba an entrepreneur...

The energy crunch is made worse by the leadership crisis at Eskom which lost both Chief Executive Jacob Maroga and Chairman Bobby Godsell in November in a politically-charged power struggle between the two men...

AGA's Chief Executive Bobby Godsell said he was now free to look at potential deals...

As the row heated up in December Inkatha and the DA had a secret meeting facilitated by Bobby Godsell a mining executive and political analyst...

Bobby Godsell Chief Executive of AngloGold moved to the fore...