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BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway

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BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway
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Listen hereFired from a small quarrying company in 2005 for pitching an idea a lawyer called "unlistable," Andries van Heerden went and built it anyway. Twenty years on, that idea is Afrimat: a R10 billion JSE-listed miner spanning iron ore, manganese, anthracite, rare earths and now cement, after last year's Lafarge acquisition. At BNC#9, the man rated by his peers as South Africa's best miner lays out the deals, the near-misses, and the culture overhaul it took to get there, then turns to what

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