Mark Shuttleworth Almost Was Our Donald

Posted by Farrel Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:21:00 GMT

Usually we don’t stray off the political road here but I was just reading an article on Ubuntu, the Linux distribution funded by SA’s own dotcom millionaire and cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth, when the following quote jumped out at me:

Shuttleworth tried out in early 2005 for the Donald Trump role on a South African version of The Apprentice, but lost to a politically connected head of a mining company.

A ‘politically connected head of a mining company’ you say? Who on earth could that be…

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