Richest People In Africa 2012 – African Billionaires
This 26th year of tracking tellurian resources was one to remember, with an all-time high . The 2011 Forbes Billionaires List breaks dual records: sum series of listees (1,226) and total resources ($4.6 trillion). This society surpasses the gross domestic product of Germany, one of only 6 nations to have fewer billionaires this year.
Below is the 40 Richest People In Africa:
No.1 Aliko Dangote
Net Worth:
$11.2 billion – As of March. 2012
Source of wealth: sugar, flour, concrete , self-made
Age:54 ,Citizenship: Nigeria , Residence: Lagos, Nigeria
Marital Status: Married, Children:3
Aliko Dangote is Africa’s and Nigeria’s Richest Man as of 2012 according to Forbes Magazine with a net value of $11.2 billion.
No.2 Nicky Oppenheimer family
Net Worth:$6.8 billion – As of Mar 2012
Source of wealth: De Beers, inherited
South Africa’s Richest Person: #1
Age:65 , Citizenship : South Africa , Residence: Johannesburg, South Africa
Marital Status: Married, Children:1
Nicky Oppenheimer is value $6.8 billion. He is the richest authority in South Africa and is the 139th richest authority in the world. How did he get rich? He is the authority of De Beers diamonds, of course, and also has a poignant seductiveness in Anglo-American plc, the bullion mining company. He also owns Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, the largest private diversion haven in South Africa.
No.3 Nassef Sawiris
Net Worth:
$4.75 billion – As of Nov 2011
Egypt’s Richest Person: #1
Source: construction, hereditary and growing
Age:50 , Citizenship: Egypt , Residence: Cairo, Egypt
Nassef Sawiris is Onsi’s youngest son and is value $4.75 billion. He is the richest authority in Egypt, and the 182nd richest authority in the world. He took over care of Orascom’s construction and fertilizer multiplication in the late nineties and sole its concrete business to Lafarge in 2007, nonetheless he still owns a interest and sits on the French company’s board. He is also the largest shareholder in Texas Industries.
No.4 Johann Rupert family
Net Worth:$4.7 billion - As of Nov 2011
South Africa’s Richest Person: #2
Source: Luxury goods, hereditary and growing
Age:60 , Citizenship: South Africa, Residence: Stellenbosch, South Africa
Marital Status: Married, Children:3
Johann Rupert is the second-richest authority in South Africa, being value $4.7 billion. He is the 219th richest authority in the world, and made his income from Richemont, the Swiss oppulance organisation that owns Cartier, Dunhill, Chloe bags and MontBlanc pens. The association recently purchased online conform portal Net-a-Porter. Remgro, his South African holding association purchased VenFin progressing in 2010. He also owns Rupert Rothschild and L’Ormarins booze estates, and one of South Africa’s most disdainful golf clubs.
No.5 Mike Adenuga
Net Worth: $4.3 Billion – As of Nov 2011
Nigeria’s Richest Person: #2
Source of wealth: Telcom, banking, oil, self-made
Age:57 , Citizenship: Nigeria , Residence:Lagos, Nigeria
Marital Status: Married
Mike Adenuga is the second-richest authority in Nigeria with a happening of $4.3 Billion. He is the 595th richest authority in the universe and made his income in telecommunications with Globacom, a conduit that has recently launched its 4G network. The association has also invested in the submarine wire joining Nigeria to the world. His beginnings were small, as he started offered edging and Coca-Cola, but then he finally won a agreement to build troops fort in the late 1980s. Adenuga also has a interest in the Equitorial Trust Bank, and is the chair of Conoil.
No. 6 Miloud Chaabi
Net Worth: $3 Billion – As of Nov 2011
Morocco’s Richest Person: #1
Source of wealth: Real estate
Age: 82 , Citizenship: Morocco
Marital Status: Married
Miloud Chaabi got his start in 1948 building housing, then stretched by Ynna Holding into hotels, supermarkets, and renewable energy. Chaabi was a member of Parliament, where he was dubbed the “red capitalist,” when he associated himself with the revolutionary party.
No.7 Naguib Sawiris
Net Worth: $2.9 billion – As of Nov 2011
Egypt’s Richest Person: #2
Source: Telecom, hereditary and growing
Age:57 ,Citizenship: Egypt ,Residence: Cairo, Egypt
Marital Status: Married, Children: 4
Naguib Sawiris, Onsi’s eldest son, is the second-richest authority in Egypt – he is value $2.9 billion, which makes him the 310th richest authority in the world. He is the conduct of Wind Telecom, which is a mobile use provider for Africa, South Asia, Europe, Canada and the Middle East. Naguib attempted to sell his use provider to MTN organisation previously, but failed.
No.8 Christoffel Wiese
Net Worth: $2.7 billion – As of Nov 2011
South Africa’s Richest Person: #3
Source: Consumer retail, self-made
Age:70 , Citizenship: South Africa
Marital Status: Married, Children: 3
Christoffel, or Christo as he’s some-more ordinarily known, is the fourth-richest authority in South Africa. He is value $2.7 billion and made his income as CEO of Shoprite. He also owns a interest in Pepkor, a bonus clothes, boots and textiles store in South Africa, and is famous for restoring a South African plantation estate and remodelling it into a five-star hotel. Other resources embody Lourensford Estate, the booze producer, and a private diversion haven in the Kalahari. He is the 782nd richest authority in the world.
No.9 Onsi Sawiris
Net Worth: $2.6 billion – As of Nov 2011
Egypt’s Richest Person: #3
Source: construction, self-made
Age:81 , Citizenship: Egypt, Residence: Cairo, Egypt
Marital Status: Married, Children: 3
Onsi Sawiris is the third-richest authority in Egypt, and the 393rd in the world. He is value $2.6 billion and made his millions as the owner of the business dynasty that includes Orascom telecom, hotels and construction. He was speedy to investigate cultivation when he was younger, but found it boring and non-stop adult his own constrictive firm, which had to be rebuilt after it was nationalised in the 1960s.
No.10 Patrice Motsepe
Net Worth: $2.5 Billion – As of Nov 2011
South Africa’s Richest Person: #4
Source: Mining, self-made
Age:49 ,Citizenship: South Africa , Residence: Johannesburg, South Africa
Marital Status: Married, Children:3
Patrice Motsepe is South Africa’s third-richest person, value $2.5 billion. He made his income in mining and is the 336th richest authority in the world. His income is the outcome of the purchasing of low-producing bullion cave shafts in 1994, which he made profitable. Since then, he has built African Rainbow Minerals, benefiting as a outcome of South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) laws. He also owns a interest in Sanlam.
No. 11 Othman Benjelloun
Net Worth: $2.4 Billion – As of Nov 2011
Morocco’s Richest Person: #2
Source: Banking, Insurance
Age:79 , Citizenship: Morocco
Marital Status: Married, Children:2
Othman Benjelloun’s father was a vast shareholder in a tiny Moroccan word company. Benjelloun took over in 1988, and built it into RMA Watanya, a heading word company. He then used it to enhance into banking. His publicly traded BMCE Bank is benefaction in some-more than a dozen African countries (due to an merger of Bank of Africa), and has a marketplace capitalization of $4 billion.
No. 12 Anas Sefrioui
Net Worth: $1.75 Billion
Morocco’s Richest Person: #3
Source: Real estate
Age: 54 , Citizenship: Morocco
Marital Status: Married, Children: 3
Moroccan businessman Anas Sefrioui shaped a genuine estate growth organisation in 1988, but his big break came scarcely 10 years after when he won a agreement to build a cube of government-subsidized housing underneath the clientele of Morocco’s late King Hassan II. He won another $1 billion state agreement in 2005 to build some-more housing units.
No.13 Mohamed Mansour
Net Worth: $1.7 Billion - As of Nov 2011
Egypt’s Richest Person: #4
Source: Diversified, self-made
Age:63 ,Citizenship: Egypt , Residence:Cairo, Egypt
Marital Status: Married, Children:2
Mohamed Mansour is the comparison hermit of Youssef and Yasseen, and is value $1.7 billion, made by several ventures. He is the fourth-richest authority in Egypt, and the 595th richest authority in the world. His family is the biggest seller of GM vehicles around the world, and the Mansour organisation has interests in different industries, such as supermarkets and genuine estate.
No.14 Yasseen Mansour
Net Worth: $1.55 Billion – As of Nov 2011
Egypt’s Richest Person: #5
Source: Diversified, self-made
Age:50 ,Citizenship: Egypt ,Residence:Cairo, Egypt
Marital Status:Married, Children:4
Yasseen Mansour is value $1.8 billion and is the fifth-richest authority in Egypt. He is the youngest hermit of Mohamed and Youssef Mansour, and is the conduct of Egypt’s second-largest sell estate developer Palm Hills Developments. He is the 692nd richest authority in the universe but is confronting allegations of crime after his cousin, who was suspended Egyptian boss Mubarak’s housing minister, was found to be a shareholder in that association and other Mansour holdings.
No.14 Youssef Mansour
Net Worth: $1.55 billion
Egypt’s Richest Person: #5
Source: Diversified, self-made
Age:66 ,Citizenship: Egypt , Residence:Cairo, Egypt
Marital Status:Married,Children:5
Youssef Mansour is the comparison hermit of Mohamed Mansour. He is value $1.8 billion and is the sixth-richest authority in Egypt. He is the 692nd richest authority in the universe and was behind the construction of the largest supermarket sequence in Egypt, called Metro. He apparently enjoys collecting seat that King Louis XIV of France was lustful of, and Renaissance paintings.
No.16 Mohamed Al Fayed family
Net Worth: $1.3 Billion – As of Nov 2011
Egypt’s Richest Person: #6
Source: Retail, self-made
Age:78 ,Citizenship: Egypt
Marital Status: Married, Children:5
Mohamed Al Fayed is value $1.2 billion, making him the 993rd richest authority in the universe and the eighth richest authority in Egypt. His business interests embody tenure of Fulham Football Club in England, Hotel Ritz Paris and before Harrods Department Store in Knightsbridge.
List of African Millionaires:
#17 Jim Ovia
Net Worth: $775 Million, Source: Banking
Citizenship: Nigeria , Age: 57
#18 Lauritz (Laurie) Dippenaar
Net Worth: $750 Million, Source: Banking, Insurance
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 63
#19 Shafik Gabr
Net Worth: $730 Million, Source: Diversified
Citizenship: Egypt , Age: 59
#20 Stephen Saad
Net Worth: $640 Million, Source: Pharmaceuticals
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 47
#21 Theophilus Danjuma
Net Worth: $600 Million, Source: Oil
Citizenship: Nigeria , Age: 72
#22 Alami Lazraq
Net Worth: $575 Million, Source: Real estate
Citizenship: Morocco , Age: 61
#23 Samih Sawiris
Net Worth: $560 Million, Source: Real estate, Hotel
Citizenship: Egypt , Age: 54
#24 Oba Otudeko
Net Worth: $550 Million , Source: Manufacturing, Telecom
Citizenship: Nigeria , Age: 67
#25 Raymond Ackerman
Net Worth: $545 Million, Source: Retailing
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 80
#26 Uhuru Kenyatta family
Net Worth: $500 Million, Source: Land
Citizenship: Kenya , Age: 50
#27 Gerrit Thomas (GT) Ferreira
Net Worth: $460 Million, Source: Banking, Insurance
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 63
#28 Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Net Worth: $450 Million, Source: Telecom
Citizenship: Nigeria , Age: 56
#29 Abdulsamad Rabiu
Net Worth: $400 Million, Source: Sugar, Flour, Cement
Citizenship: Nigeria , Age: NA
#30 Mohammed Indimi
Net Worth: $330 Million, Source: Oil
Citizenship: Nigeria , Age: 63
#31 Chris Kirubi
Net Worth: $300 Million, Source: Real estate
Citizenship: Kenya , Age: 70
#31 Jannie Mouton
Net Worth: $300 Million, Source: Financial services
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 64
#33 Michiel Le Roux
Net Worth: $290 Million, Source: Banking
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 62
#34 Adrian Gore
Net Worth: $280 Million, Source: Financial services
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 47
#34 Strive Masiyiwa
Net Worth: $280 Million, Source: Telecom
Citizenship: Zimbabwe , Age: 51
#36 Cyril Ramaphosa
Net Worth: $275 Million, Source: Investments
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 59
#36 Giovanni Ravazzotti
Net Worth: $275 Million, Source: Ceramics, Tile
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 68
#38 Mohamed Bensalah
Net Worth: $270 Million, Source: Financial services
Citizenship: Morocco , Age: 41
#39 Markus Jooste
Net Worth: $260 Million, Source: Furniture retailing
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 50
#40 Paul Harris
Net Worth: $250 Million, Source: Banking
Citizenship: South Africa , Age: 61
[See full list on Forbes.com]
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