The woman who competed in MasterChef South Africa and then founded the cookie business growing across South Africa

  1. The man who wanted to be an astronaut and now makes R272,000 a day as a tech CEO in South Africa
  2. The man whose first business was killed by Eskom and then started a coffee shop giant in South Africa
  3. The woman who makes R30,000 per month selling chicken in Soweto at half the price of Nando’s
  4. The man who founded a successful coffee franchise out of his mother’s garage in one of South Africa’s biggest townships
  5. The former Springbok captain who started an outdoor advertising company and signed an exclusive deal with Golden Arrow buses
  6. The two university students who founded South Africa’s biggest pizza franchise
  7. The man who went from selling perfumes to owning a luxury nightclub which South African celebrities love
  8. The man who became the first South African chef to earn a Michelin star and launched five restaurants and new food and lifestyle products
  9. The woman who used R10,000 to create a clothing brand that now makes R540,000 per month
  10. The man who makes R60,000 per month selling chickens for R100 each in a market which Boxer, Shoprite, and Usave cannot touch
  11. The woman who makes R100,000 per month selling coffee for R10 next to one of South Africa’s top luxury shopping malls
  12. The woman who makes R100,000 per month with her online township business selling sneakers, hair extensions, and blankets
  13. The man who got fired for an idea that turned into R10 billion in South Africa
  14. Two South Africans built a business with R20,000, sold it for R3.2 billion, and then lost it all in 18 months
  15. The South African CEO who went from earning under R2,000 to R2.1 million a month
  16. The man who started his own business at 7 years old, and now leads a R332 billion industry giant in South Africa
  17. The woman who went from Telkom executive to beekeeper
  18. The family business in South Africa that went from being a small farm stall to a major ‘luxury’ supplier to Checkers and Dis-Chem
  19. The roadside stall in the middle of nowhere that started as a practical joke and is now one of South Africa’s most popular destinations
  20. The small South African town in the middle of nowhere that hosts the largest agricultural show in the Southern Hemisphere
 
  1. The man who started selling boerewors rolls outside a taxi rank and now supplies half of Gauteng
  2. The woman who lost her job during Covid and turned her passion for baking into a business employing 47 people
  3. The former accountant who quit his six-figure salary to sell mielies on the side of the road and never looked back
  4. The South African who started fixing broken cellphones in his bedroom and now owns a chain of repair shops across the country
  5. The woman who started making chilli sauce for friends and now exports millions of bottles to Europe
  6. The man who borrowed R5,000 from his grandmother to start a car wash and now owns a luxury vehicle empire
  7. The couple who started selling vetkoek from their garage and now run one of South Africa’s fastest-growing restaurant chains
  8. The former teacher who turned a school project into a multimillion-rand business supplying stationery to government
  9. The man who was rejected by 12 banks before building a fintech company that now processes billions of rands
  10. The woman who started selling second-hand clothes on Facebook and now owns a fashion empire with stores in three countries
 
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The South African town home to the most expensive power station in the world that cost R240.4 billion to build​

 
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