How Lazarus Zim clawed his way from Fort Hare to the top of South Africa's mining industry
Billionaires Africa | 11.03.2026 20:54
Lazarus Zim was born with a name that, in retrospect, reads like prophecy. In the Bible, Lazarus rose from the dead. In South Africa's corporate world, Polelo Lazarus Zim has done something that felt equally improbable: he collapsed spectacularly, buried his flagship company, walked away from his debts with the banks, and then came back to engineer one of the most significant platinum empowerment deals in the country's history.
