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.
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.
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 .