{"id":781347,"date":"2024-07-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=781347"},"modified":"2024-07-09T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:34:51","slug":"the-richest-south-africans-in-the-world-worth-a-combined-r5-8-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/781347\/the-richest-south-africans-in-the-world-worth-a-combined-r5-8-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"The richest South Africans in the world – worth a combined R5.8 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South Africa may still be home to six billionaires, but several other dollar-billionaire club members have left the country for new pastures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa is currently home to six-dollar billionaires: Johann Rupert, Nicky Oppenheimer, Patrice Motsepe, Koos Bekker, Michiel le Roux and Christo Wiese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their wealth ranges from Rupert’s $11.6 billion (R210.55 billion) to Wiese’s $1.3 billion (R23.60 billion), according to Forbes’s real-time billionaires list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, seven other billionaires were born and raised in South Africa before heading overseas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The richest person in the world, Elon Musk, was born in South Africa and attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Bryanston High School, and then Pretoria Boys High School in Gauteng. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His net worth totals $252.6 billion (R4.58 trillion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk derives much of his wealth from Tesla and SpaceX and is the owner of the social media platform X\/Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The biggest social media platforms in South Africa – with users giving Elon Musk’s X the boot<\/a><\/blockquote>