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Solly Soka Madibela, known as Mysol, built MySol Holdings & Logistics in the chrome belt of South Africa’s North West. He also funds bursaries and training…
The South African technologist co-founded one of the country’s first free mobile VoIP services, built a learning company, and now co-leads an education charity serving children…
South African inventor Ludwick Marishane came up with DryBath as a teenager. He turned it into a patented product, a company, and a business that sells…
A former Dragons’ Den investor and international speaker, Vusi Thembekwayo turned a hard early lesson about due diligence into MyGrowthFund Venture Partners, an investment firm for…
After nine years running Checkers from 4 stores to 85, Raymond Ackerman bought the first four Pick n Pay stores and built them into a national…
Born in Durban to Lebanese parents, Stephen Saad was a millionaire at 29, then co-founded Aspen Pharmacare in 1997.
Started in 2006 while at university, Yeigo won the first Enablis Business Plan competition and was bought by a South African operator in 2009.
From a dry-cleaning business to the Rembrandt Group, Anton Rupert built a business empire that also funded education, art and conservation.
From Daveyton to the boardroom, Wendy Luhabe founded Bridging the Gap in 1991 and Women Investment Holdings in 1993, launching an R120 million private equity fund…
Imagine Worldwide delivers literacy and numeracy through tablet-based learning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and won the 2024 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize.
In 1987 Fernando Duarte and Robert Brozin bought a small Portuguese-Mozambican chicken takeaway in Johannesburg, tried the peri-peri sauce and renamed it.
Managing individual shafts under contract in the 1980s, Bridgette Radebe went on to start Mmakau Mining, a firm exploring and producing platinum, gold and chrome.
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