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HUBERTE Rupert, who died in Stellenbosch last week at the age of 85, was best known to those who did not know her as the wife of the industrialist Anton Rupert.

HUBERTE Rupert, who died in Stellenbosch last week at the age of 85, was best known to those who did not know her as the wife of the industrialist Anton Rupert.

To those who met her, even briefly, it was always apparent that the august Mrs Rupert was no mere "wife of", and played a decisive role in the creation of a multibillion-dollar commercial empire more usually attributed to her husband's genius.

She even helped choose the name by which their business empire became famous.

Her husband's recently published biography recounts how Anton Rupert decided, in 1946, that it was time to rename his cigarette-manufacturing business, then called "Voorbrand".

Rupert went to bed that night with the issue on his mind.

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