Stanley Uys

Sir Mark Thatcher has accumulated a £60-million (about R720-million) fortune through his ''business'' activities -- but Britain's most tenacious journalists have failed to uncover precisely what these activities entail. On one aspect, however, they agree: Thatcher's financial career took off after his mother, Margaret Thatcher, became Britain’s prime minister in 1979 and he traded on her position to clinch various deals, mostly in the arms trade.

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