The province was also the home of the Bolebedu, a small tribe but with a rather impressive leader, Queen Modjadji V, the only female tribal leader in southern Africa, and perhaps the only one in the world with a reputation as a rainmaker.

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Today, Morgan Stanley confirmed its top investment banker and another member of that rainmaker group, Joseph Perella Joseph Perella , would quit the firm, as would his longtime deputy, Tarek Abdel-Meguid Tarek Abdel-Meguid .

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But he had toiled his way up through the ranks at IDS and American Express as a rainmaker with fresh ideas, and JPMorgan, it turned out, was looking for a bit of both.

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Sechele happened to be his tribe's rainmaker as well as kgosi, and Livingstone's stay coincided with the worst drought ever known, so Sechele's decision to stop making rain was predictably unpopular.

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Morgan Stanley has been under siege since a senior management reshuffle in late March that resulted in the departures of several star bankers, including Vikram Pandit , head of the institutional securities unit, John Havens , head of equities, and Joseph Perella , a key rainmaker.

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