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Salidor Christoffel Coetzee
The Author was born in 1958 in South Africa where he lived most of his life. He obtained a wealth of experience, amongst other 3 and a half years forced military service during the “apartheid” year...view moreThe Author was born in 1958 in South Africa where he lived most of his life. He obtained a wealth of experience, amongst other 3 and a half years forced military service during the “apartheid” years in the then South African Defense Force (SADF), where he qualified as Captain in the Mechanized Infantry Force. After compulsory military service, he obtained a B Compt. Accounting Degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 1987. After political transition in 1995, when Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa, he completed an Executive Development Program (EDP) at the University of Stellenbosch, Graduate School of Business, in 1999. He worked for more than 20 years at SASOL LTD, a South African Oil and Gas company listed on the Johannesburg (JSE) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), respectively. As member of a broader strategic business management team, he functioned for more than 15 years as Financial Manager of various Strategic Business Units within the SASOL Group of companies. He later completed a SASOL 2020 Senior Leadership Program at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg South Africa. He then went on to obtain his Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree at the University of Pretoria, in May 2006. The University of Pretoria or now Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), digitized his MBA Research Report as part of the “Open Scholarship and Digitisation Programme, 2017”, whereby the university officially recognized him as the author of his own publication titled “Creating High Performance Value Chain Organizations (HPVCO)”.
He ironically worked and lived in both Iran and Saudi Arabia. He worked for a short period in Iran as Financial Manager of Araya Sasol Polymer Company (ASPC), a Joint Venture (JV) between SASOL South Africa and Iranian National Petrochemical Company (NPC). Apart, from working in Iran, he also worked for more than 6 years in Saudi Arabia as a Cost Engineerof major projects. Despite limited financial resources, he managed to visit many countries and cities. Countries such as Paris (France), London (UK), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Bangkok and Phuket (Thailand), Manilla and Cebu City (Philippines), München and Dusseldorf (Germany), Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE), Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Singapore, Istanbul (Turkey) and many African countries and cities.
His ever passion for quality education and sharing of knowledge and expertise, including to the less fortunate and His intense belief in God, his Creator constantly motivates him to inform and educate people through his books, across the globe. His main objectives as an author are not only to inform and educate people, but to also promote and build a diversified capacity of mutual trust, respect and understanding between nations, each other individually and groups of people, to respect the dignity of all.
He was married for more than 28 years to Charlotte Freda Coetzee (Van Heerden) who passed away on June 4, 2010 due to breast cancer, just before the start of the FIFA World Cup Soccer on June 11, 2010 in South Africa. Salidor and Charlotte have 4 children of their own.view less