Ian bredenkamp biography
Ian Bredenkamp was an entrepreneur..
He started his music plugging and promo business - I Be Music - after an exciting corporate career in commercial radio management.
BREAKING: Business Tycoon John Bredenkamp Dies
By Staff Reporter
TOP Zimbabwean business tycoon John Bredenkamp has died.
He was 79.
Bredenkamp is famed with captaining the national rugby side in early parts of his life before Zimbabwe’s independence and was once reported to have a fortune of US$850 million from his business dealings in arms, tobacco trading and diamond mining.
“It is with a heavy and sad heart that the president of the ZRU announces the sad passing of our former Sables player and captain John Bredenkamp this morning,” the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) said in a statement.
“May his family and friends be comforted during this sad time.
The ZRU is at a loss for words on the passing of our former skipper. May his soul rest in eternal peace.”
Although details of his death were still sketchy, sources close to the family revealed that Bredenkamp passed away in Harare Thursday morning due to kidney failure.
Born in Kimberley, South Africa, Bredenkamp moved with h