Fortunes The Rise rise Of Afrikaner Tycoons Ebbe Dommisse South Africa business biography Afrikaans

Fortunes The Rise rise Of Afrikaner Tycoons Ebbe Dommisse South Africa business biography Afrikaans 

The book is a paperback book in a good condition

The book has 448 pages with barcode 9781868427543

The book is in English

*************ABOUT THE BOOK*******

A handful of Afrikaners have risen to the very top of the business world in South Africa in the past three decades, some of them now dollar billionaires with vast global business interests. With Koos Bekker at it's helm, media group Naspers grew to dominate the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and was transformed into a global consumer internet group. 

Johann Rupert boldly extended Richemont's share in the upper-end market of luxury goods, while Christo Wiese and Whitey Basson at Pepkor and Shoprite became Africa's largest clothing and food retailers. Based predominantly on personal interviews, Fortunes reveals why individuals such as Jannie Mouton, Michiel le Roux, Douw Steyn, Johan van Zyl, GT Ferreira, Hendrik du Toit, and several commercial farmers, turn whatever they touch to gold. 

Work ethic, astute alliances and an appetite for risk have catapulted them to great heights. The rise of the Afrikaner super-rich has coincided with the government's black economic empowerment programme, making it one of the unexpected features of the South African economy today. Fortunes is an unrivalled work that explains who these tycoons are, how they built their empires and how the sensational collapse of Steinhoff International, led by Markus Jooste (who killed himself before he could be prosecuted), almost destroyed some of their fortunes. 

The book boldly interrogates their spirit of enterprise, faults and follies, but also their vast philanthropic contributions to the country.