** South African Number One Bestseller ** 
A comprehensive work based on personal interviews and insider knowledge – bound to become a classic. 
The past three decades have seen a remarkable rise of Afrikaners in business. With Koos Bekker at its helm, media group Naspers began dominating the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and was turned into a global consumer internet group. Johann Rupert strongly extended Richemont’s share internationally 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. 
Fortunes describes how these and other business leaders, such as Jannie Mouton, Michiel le Roux, Douw Steyn, Roelof Botha, Hendrik du Toit and a number of commercial farmers, built their empires. It looks at their life and business philosophies and what makes them such successful entrepreneurs. 
Recent years have also seen the sensational collapse of Steinhoff International, the furniture retailer led by Markus Jooste that destroyed some of these fortunes. While Jooste is the topic of one of the chapters, another looks at the philanthropic projects most of these tycoons are involved in.

Fortunes: The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons

Business & Money

Dommisse, Ebbe

International

Icon Books

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 its 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, 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.

FORTUNES - The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Jonathan Ball Publishers

Die ongekende sukses van Afrikaner-sakelui het die afgelope drie dekades verras en verstom. 'n Aantal is vandag dollar-miljardêrs met uitgebreide internasionale belange. Die opkoms van die Afrikaner-magnaat is veral merkwaardig in die lig van die regering se omvattende program van swart ekonomiese bemagtiging. Onder leiding van Koos Bekker het Naspers die Johannesburgse aandelebeurs begin domineer en is dié mediagroep tot 'n internasionale beleggingshouergroep omvorm. Johann Rupert het Richemont as die naasgrootste groep in die mark vir luukse goedere gevestig, terwyl Christo Wiese en Whitey Basson onderskeidelik Pepkor en Shoprite tot die grootste kleinhandelgroepe in klerasie en voedsel in Afrika uitgebou het. Fortuine verklap waarom alles wat sakeleiers soos Jannie Mouton, Michiel le Roux, GT Ferreira, Johan van Zyl, Douw Steyn en 'n aantal megaboere aanraak skynbaar in goud verander. Dit ondersoek ook die sensasionele ineenstorting van Steinhoff Internasionaal onder Markus Jooste, waardeur soveel welvaart uitgewis is. 'n Onthullende boek, wat hoofsaaklik op persoonlike onderhoude gebaseer is en lig werp op die werksetiek, strategiese vennootskappe en aptyt vir risiko wat hierdie groep Afrikaners die reënmakers van die ekonomie maak.

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