Pathfinder Minerals plc: January 2012

Tuesday 31 January 2012

Tim Baldwin

From the Daily Telegraph, January 27 2012

Wilson treads a troubled path

Was Gavin Wilson one of 2011’s unluckiest investors?

He ended 2010 as a star performer with his Rab Energy Fund – part of the troubled Rab Capital hedge fund group.

But things quickly turned sour.

General Veloso is a highly distinguished Mozambican who, after a decorated career in the armed forces following the country's independence, held many prominent government positions, including Minister of State Security, General Director of the Intelligence Services, Minister of Economic Affairs and Minister of International Cooperation. From 2003-2009 he was Chairman of the Mozambique Chamber of Commerce.

General Veloso is an adviser to the President of the Republic of Mozambique and a member of the National Defence and Security Council. He has acted as the President of the Republic of Mozambique's envoy on numerous occasions, mainly in the matters of the establishment of peace in Mozambique and Angola, the end of apartheid in South Africa and Namibian independence. General Veloso was the chairman of the Government Commission that negotiated the M'Komati Accord of "good neighbourliness and non-aggression" with the Republic of South African 1984. He remains, today, the President of the South Africa-Mozambique Friendship Association.