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S.African insurance provider Sanlam to take stake in new device of billionaire Motsepe’s firm

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JOHANNESBURG, Dec 18 (Reuters)South Africa’s most important insurer Sanlam SLMJ.J claimed on Friday it would just take a minority stake, value $51 million, in a new subsidiary getting established up by billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Funds Economic Solutions (ARC FS).

Sanlam will just take a 25% stake in the subsidiary which will hold ARC FS’s economic belongings like monetary expert services group Alexander Forbes, but excluding its banking associated investments, specifically start off-up, digital-only loan company TymeBank.

The offer is a person of a collection of planned transactions with ARC FS initially laid out by Sanlam in 2018 and intended to boost Black-economic empowerment – a South African authorities coverage that encourages firms to satisfy quotas on Black ownership, work and procurement to reverse many years of racial exclusion below apartheid.

Sanlam said its 25%, non-managing stake in the new device of ARC FS, aspect of Motsepe’s Ubunto-Botho investments group, was really worth 739 million rand ($50.95 million) as of June 30, and that it would fund the stake obtain from present resources.

The offer follows an additional transaction amongst ARC FS and Sanlam before this 12 months to form the country’s major Black-owned asset supervisor.

Sanlam shares were being flat at 1234 GMT.

($1 = 14.5046 rand)

(Reporting by Emma Rumney Editing by Promit Mukherjee and Susan Fenton)

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