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Vanessa Gounden, South Africa's richest businesswoman (born 1961) Morris Kahn, Israeli billionaire, founder and chairman of Aurec Group (born 1930) [5] Sol Kerzner, hotel magnate (1935–2020) Basetsana Kumalo, former Miss South Africa, presenter and businesswoman (born 1974) Gary Lubner (born 1958 or 1959), businessman and philanthropist
Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor. Trefor Jenkins (born 1932), human geneticist from South Africa, noted for his work on DNA. Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He moved to South Africa at the age of two and studied at the ...
Louis Botha: former Prime Minister of South Africa [1] P. W. Botha: Executive State President of South Africa; Sir Johannes Brand: State President of the Orange Free State; Thomas François Burgers: State President of the South African Republic; J. B. M. Hertzog: Prime Minister of South Africa [2] F. W. de Klerk: Executive State President of ...
Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born in Algeria. 1980: Raging Bull: Won 1990: Goodfellas: Nominated 2002: Gangs of New York: Nominated 2004: The Aviator: Won 2006: The Departed: Won 2011: Hugo: Nominated 2015: Margaret Sixel: Mad Max: Fury Road: Won Sixel is a South African-born Australian. 2019: Thelma Schoonmaker The ...
John Mackenzie (1835–99), missionary to and advocate for the Tswana people, first governor of British Bechuanaland; Jovan Nikolić, footballer; Samantha Paxinos, swimmer; Adrian Robinson, swimmer; Hendrik van Zyl (1828–80), notorious trader from Ghanzi who allegedly hid a vast treasure in the cave systems nearby; Brandon Wilson, football player
As of December 2024, South African billionaire Johann Rupert is the richest person in Africa, and the African countries with the most billionaires are South Africa (6), Egypt (5), Nigeria (4), and Morocco (2).
South Africa: Physiology or Medicine: 2003 J. M. Coetzee: Literature: 2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya: Peace: First Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt: 2007 Doris Lessing Zimbabwe (born in Iran) Literature: 2008 J. M. G. Le Clézio Mauritius (born in France) Literature: 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia: Peace ...
Ben Bentil (born 1995), Ghanaian basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League; Jérôme Boateng, footballer; Kwame Ayew; Kevin-Prince Boateng, footballer; Joshua Clottey, former world champion boxer; Marcel Desailly, former French footballer, captain of the France national football team and FIFA World Cup winner