In December 2004, CNN and Time Magazine ranked him as one of the world’s top 25 most influential business people - setting the global standards for management, ethics, marketing and innovation. He is the recipient of three Lifetime Achievement awards, the most recent being the one conferred on him in June 2010 by the Commonwealth Business Council and the African Business Magazine for his outstanding contribution to the development of the private sector in Africa. Most recently, in March 2011, he was profiled as Mining Personality of the month in Martin Creamer’s Mining Weekly publication.