Agloplat’s ‘buffalo soldier’ back in the office

The chief executive officer of Anglo American Platinum, the world’s biggest producer of the metal, was injured by a buffalo while on holiday in December.

Chris Griffith “had an encounter with a buffalo and sustained injuries,” the company said in an e-mailed response to questions this week, without saying where the attack happened.

“He is back in the office; we are all wishing him a speedy recovery.”

Griffiths was seen in a wheelchair this week at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town.

Griffith manages a R94 billion ($7 billion) company that has been selling and winding down its older, less-profitable operations to adjust to a platinum price that has fallen 40% in the past five years.

In 2012, Anglo’s then CEO, Cynthia Carroll, underwent an operation following a hip injury she suffered during a horse-riding accident. – Bloomberg

Nkosana Makate has dismissed Vodacom’s assertion that it faces difficulties in determining the revenue that the Please Call Me idea has generated since its inception in 2001.

Makate, the inventor of Please Call Me, argues in court papers filed at the Constitutional Court this week that Vodacom has substantial financial records to enable it to determine how much it owes him.

Familiar ground

A fresh battle is heading back to the Constitutional Court – with Makate seeking clarity on last