Background
Macozoma was born in Portuguese Elizabeth on 12 May 1957.
Macozoma was born in Portuguese Elizabeth on 12 May 1957.
He studied political science, economics and journalism at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and at Boston University in the United States of America.
He holds a Bachelor degree from Unisa. After spending five years in prison alongside Nelson Mandela on Robben Island for anti-apartheid activities he joined the South African Council of Churches. During this time he was also chairman of South African Airways.
Macozoma is one of a small group of former African National Congress politicians who left politics and rapidly became successful in the business world.
He is chairman of Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining, Ntsimbintle Mining and Safika Holdings. He is deputy Chairman of Volkswagen Société Anonyme. From 2007 to December 2013, Macozoma was chairman of Liberty Holdings and deputy chairman of the Standard Bank Group.
He resigned to concentrate on his Safika business interests. Before joining Standard Bank he was chief executive of New Africa Investments Limited (Nail), a publicly listed investment company with a broad portfolio that included radio stations, outdoor media and the Hertz car rental company.
Macozoma is well known for his work in civil society and has served as chairman of the Council on Higher Education and the University Council of the University of the Witwatersrand.
Mr. Macozoma has also served as president of Business Leadership South Africa, chairman of the President"s Big Business Working Group and co-chairman of the Business Trust. In 2005 Billy Masethla, then director of South Africa"s National Intelligence Agency ( National Investigation Agency), was arrested and charged with illegally conducting surveillance of Mr Macozoma and his family.
Mr Macozoma is now politically unaffiliated.
In 2012 Macozoma and former president Nelson Mandela were together awarded the University of South Africa"s (University of South Africa) highest honour, a Calabash award and received the university’s first Robben Island alumnus award, designed to honour those imprisoned by the apartheid regime because they fought against the system of State oppression. The Anglican Church of Southern Africa honoured Macozoma when the Most Rev"d Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town admitted him to the Order of Simon of Cyrene at a meeting of the church’s Provincial Synod in Benoni, Gauteng on 1 October 2013.
He also worked for the African National Congress (African National Congress) and South African Breweries. He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress from 1991 to 2008. On 28 February 2009 Mr.
Macozoma joined the Congress of the People(Committee on Publication Ethics), a party that broke away from the ruling African National Congress in 2008.
He became an African National Congress Member of Parliament in 1994 but left the legislature in 1996 to become managing director of Transnet Limited, South Africa"s largest parastatal, that controls South Africa"s rail network and harbours. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Rhodes University and chairman of the Kwazulu–Natal Philharmonic Orchestra.
