Tokyo Sexwale

Mosima Gabriel Sexwale, more commonly known as Tokyo Sexwale, was born 5 March 1953 in Orland West, Johannesburg, is a South African businessman and former politician, ant-Apartheid activist and political prisoner.
His nickname is derived from his involvement with the sport of karate as a youth.
A charismatic leader, Sexwale was imprisoned on Robben Island for his anti-apartheid activities, alongside figures such as Nelson Mandela. After the 1994 general election—the first universal franchise election in South Africa—Sexwale became the premier of Gauteng Province.
He retired from politics in 1998 and subsequently became a major business leader. Sexwale is married to a white paralegal he met while in Robbens Island, Judy van Vuuren; they have two children, Gabrielle and Chris.

In 1976, Sexwale was captured after a skirmish with the South African security forces and, along with 11 others, was charged and later convicted of terrorism and conspiracy to overthrow the government after an almost two-year long trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court.
In 1977, Sexwale was sent to the Robben Island serve an 18-year sentence. While imprisoned at Robben Island, he studied for a B. Comm degree at the University of South Africa.
Sexwale was released in June 1990 under the terms of the Groote Schuur Agreement. He had spent 13 years in prison.
During this time he was represented in part by a young white paralegal named Judy van Vuuren. They began a personal relationship while he remained in prison, and soon after his release, in 1990, they became married.

After the South African elections in April 1994, Sexwale was elected as the first premier of the Gauteng Province. In this role, he was credited with bringing peace to several politically volatile townships. Sexwale left politics for the corporate sector in 1998. The reasons for this was never made completely clear, but was reportedly due to feeling stifled by central government restrictions as well as becoming exhausted by internal African National Congress intrigues.

Upon leaving the public sector, Sexwale founded Mvelaphanda Holdings (Venda for "progress"), a company of which he is still executive chairman. Mvelaphanda is primarily focused on the mining, energy and related sectors. Some of Sexwale's main interests are oil and diamond mining, for which he has been granted concessions across Africa and Russia; these interests are controlled by a subsidiary of Mvelaphanda Holdings called Mvelaphanda Resources, of which he is chairman.

He is also known as a philanthropist and is a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Global Philanthropists Circle of the Synergos Institute, the Business Trust and the Robben Island Ex-Prisoners Trust. Furthermore, he is a patron of societies such as Johannesburg Child and Family Welfare Society, Streetwise South Africa (an organisation dedicated to assisting street children), Save the Family Fund (catering for families and communities ravaged by apartheid violence) and The Sky is No Limit (which aims to expose disadvantaged youths to hi-tech education in computers and aviation).

Sexwale has received many honours and awards, including the Legion d'honneur from France, an honorary doctorate in technology from Nottingham Trent University, an honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from De Monfort University, the Order of the Freedom of Havana (Cuba), and the Cross of Valour (Ruby Class) from South Africa.