Cape Mint launches Springbok medal

AFRICAN Medallion Group (AMG)-owned Cape Mint has launched an “invictus medallion collection” to commemorate the South African Springboks’ 1995 rugby world cup win and the country’s 25-year democracy.

Businessman, Frank Buyanga

Natanya Van Niekerk, a group artist, told Supersport that the product was inspired by a number of socio-economic milestones in that country and there was “no better way of celebrating those issues than rare coins to remember those victories or moments”.
“There was probably nothing more inspiring in SA than the 1995 world cup and now that we have our first black captain of the springboks (and l believe) its huge,” she said, adding the process of making the invictus medallions was also quite intensive as it involved designing, ingraving players’ portraits, size-sculpting and magnituding.
While the official invictus launch — attended by South African Rugby president Mark Alexander — was done in Johannesburg yesterday, the Cape Mint staffer said the limited medallions would be available to the market directly from the company or through authorised dealers.
The company became part of AMG after the latter had acquired its parent Pagliari Group in a Rand 100 million last year.
Meanwhile, group founder Frank Buyanga has vehemently denied allegations that he had built his Zimbabwean property portfolio through unscrupulous means and, thus, challenged the ruling ZANU-PF youth league to adduce evidence of the alleged misconduct.
“We take great exception to the malicious allegations (and especially after) investing no less than US$40 million — through the traditional banking system — of inward capital into the country, and being instrumental in advising the government in setting up an anti-corruption unit that now seems to be taking shape,” he said this week, adding his companies and directors remain answerable to the laws of the country.