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Premier Diamond Mine, Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa An aerial view of the Two Rivers mine in Steelpoort, Limpopo, owned by both African Rainbow Minerals and Impala Platinum holdings limited. Mining in South Africa was once the main driving force [1] behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. [2]
Sir Thomas Cullinan (12 February 1862 – 23 August 1936) was a South African diamond magnate. He is renowned for giving his name to the Cullinan Diamond , the largest diamond ever discovered, and as owner of the Premier Mine , now renamed the Cullinan Mine, from which the famous gem was extracted on 26 January 1905.
In January 2024, Motsepe was named Africa's 9th richest man and South Africa's 3rd richest man after Johan Rupert and Nicky Oppenheimer by CNBC Africa alongside Koos Bekker, with an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion. [8] In May 2024, Motsepe was ranked as the 1,175th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes, with a reported fortune of US$2.9 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. The following Forbes list of South African billionaires is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in 2023. 2023 South African billionaires list World Rank Name Citizenship Net worth (USD) Source of wealth 2 Elon Musk [a] South Africa ...
Oppenheimer appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List 2018 as the 23rd richest person in the United Kingdom, with a reported fortune of £5.5 billion. [8] He was ranked as the richest person in South Africa on Forbes list of The World's Billionaires for 2019, with a fortune reported as US$7.3 billion [ 9 ] and, again, on its 2020 list, [ 10 ] with ...
This list of mines in South Africa is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
Randlords (Afrikaans: randhere) were the capitalists who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s up to World War I.. A small number of European financiers, largely of the same generation, gained control of the diamond mining industry at Kimberley, Northern Cape.
Ivan Glasenberg (born 7 January 1957) is a South African business executive and former chief executive officer of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies. [1] He was the company's CEO from 2002 to 2021. Glasenberg has or had citizenship of South Africa and Australia. He became a Swiss citizen in 2011. [2]