THE online profiles of most businessmen contain staid photographs, a brief biography, and articles reporting their companies’ latest profits or losses. A search for Quinton van der Burgh turns up much more bling. After a few neat head shots, a succession of photos show the immaculately dressed businessman surrounded by babes.There is a walking, talking version on YouTube in episodes of his TV series Clifton Shores, characterised by popping corks, pumping music, and more make-up than an Edgars’s beauty counter.Van der Burgh, runs a group of businesses with a heavy slant towards mining. But he also funded, directed, and starred as a smooth businessman who flies in stunning young American women to work for his events and marketing company, Quintessential.Clifton Shores was memorably described by a Mail & Guardian reviewer as "bimbocracy" delivered by a male chauvinist. Van der Burgh’s next foray onto the small screen is a martial arts reality show, Last Fighter Standing, which he is fu...
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