{"id":185007,"date":"2017-07-13T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=185007"},"modified":"2017-07-14T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T10:04:27","slug":"here-are-the-20-richest-people-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/185007\/here-are-the-20-richest-people-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the 20 richest people in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa added to its growing list of dollar billionaires earlier this year, with founder and chairman of PSG Group, Jannie Mouton, joining the list of South Africa’s elite.<\/p>\n

Mouton, known as the “Boere Buffett” for his successes on the stock market, was listed as the country’s eighth dollar billionaire by Forbes in its annual Billionaire List<\/a> for 2017.<\/p>\n

And while the fortune’s of the seven men above\u00a0Mouton on the list are well documented, Entrepreneur Magazine<\/a> has compiled a more extensive list detailing the wealth of the top 28 South Africans including the likes of deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa<\/a>; former MTN executive, Irene Charnley; and Discovery founder, Adrian Gore.<\/p>\n

Commercial and\u00a0residential property<\/span> group, Knight Frank <\/a>recently published its Wealth Report \u00a0for 2017, revealing the number of high net worth individuals in the country.<\/p>\n

According to Knight Frank, SA had 40,400<\/strong> dollar millionaires in 2016, with as many as 18,200 living in Joburg, and as many as 320 individuals with wealth exceeds $30 million (R395 million).<\/p>\n

Cape Town\u2019s dollar millionaire total in 2016 was 8,200, while it also has 180 uber-rich residents who have wealth exceeding $30 million.
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BusinessTech lists the top 20 richest South Africans<\/strong> as identified by Entrepreneur Magazine.<\/p>\n

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Name<\/th>\nNet Worth<\/th>\nSource of wealth<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicky Oppenheimer<\/td>\nR95.2 billion<\/td>\nDiamonds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johann Rupert<\/td>\nR83.0 billion<\/td>\nRetail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christo Wiese<\/td>\nR76.2 billion<\/td>\nRetail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ivan Glasenberg<\/td>\nR65.3 billion<\/td>\nCommodities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Koos Bekker<\/td>\nR28.6 billion<\/td>\nMedia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patric Motsepe<\/td>\nR24.5 billion<\/td>\nMining<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allan Gray<\/td>\nR24.5 billion<\/td>\nWealth Management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stephen Saad<\/td>\nR16.3 billion<\/td>\nPharmaceuticals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jannie Mouton<\/td>\nR13.6 billion<\/td>\nBanking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laurie Dippenaar<\/td>\nR8.5 billion<\/td>\nBanking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michiel le Roux<\/td>\nR7.2 billion<\/td>\nBanking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raymond Ackerman<\/td>\nR6.9 billion<\/td>\nRetail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adrian Gore<\/td>\nR6.7 billion<\/td>\nFinancial Services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cyril Ramaphosa<\/td>\nR6.4 billion<\/td>\nInvestments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GT Ferreira<\/td>\nR5.8 billion<\/td>\nBanking and Insurance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gus Attridge<\/td>\nR5.7 billion<\/td>\nPharmaceuticals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Markus Jooste<\/td>\nR5.6 billion<\/td>\nRetail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wendy Appelbaum<\/td>\nR4.7 billion<\/td>\nInsurance and Proptery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Desmond Sacco<\/td>\nR4.7 billion<\/td>\nMining<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Giovanni Ravazzotti<\/td>\nR4.7 billion<\/td>\nRetail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read: How many South Africans have more than R125 million in their bank account<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entrepreneur Magazine has compiled a more extensive list detailing the wealth of the top 28 South Africans including the likes of deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and former MTN executive, Irene Charnley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[12037,26],"class_list":["post-185007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-entrepreneur-magazine","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185007"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185365,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185007\/revisions\/185365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}