Patrice Motsepe Parents: Meet Key Motsepe, Augustine Motsepe

Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a South African mining billionaire businessman. Since 12 March 2021, he has been serving as the President of the Confederation of African Football. He is the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, which has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum.

Meet Key Motsepe, Augustine Motsepe

Patrice Motsepe was born to Kgosi Augustine Motsepe, chief of the Macau branch of the Tswana people, who had previously been a schoolteacher and who was later a small businessman as the owner of a Spaza shop which was popular with black mine workers. It was from this shop that Motsepe learned basic business principles from his father, as well as first-hand exposure to mining.

His father was originally a school teacher who decided to start his own business. Patrice learned the basics of business and got his first real exposure to mining from his father. He was born in Soweto, which is actually where his mother grew up.

He got his business skills from his father and his heart of gold from his mother. He says he never forgot how she would always give free food to the poor.