Top 6 Wealthiest South African Women!
Top 6 Wealthiest South African Women! Each of these women are at the top of their industry and are proof that females can and are doing it for themselves. They have been identified as Africa and South Africa’s richest women by Forbes year after year. Below are the top 6 wealthiest women in South Africa.
Wendy Appelbaum
Wendy Appelbaum who is the daughter of Liberty Group founder Donald Gordon is the owner and Chair of De Morgenzon Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. There are lots of wealthy women in South Africa but just a certain woman stands out amongst them all. She is not just the richest woman in South Africa but also one of the richest women in Africa. Appelbaum is a South African entrepreneur who owns and is also the chairman of De Morgenzon Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. She has an estimated net worth of R2.6 billion.
Wendy Ackerman
Wendy Ackerman is a South African retail tycoon, a Non-Executive Director of Pick N Pay Holdings Limited. She is worth R1.9 billion and she also runs the Ackerman Family Trust. Her husband owns about 50 percent of the major South African grocery chain Pick ‘n’ Pay. She is known by SA Nature Foundation for her phenomenal achievement and contribution to the conservation of the environment.
Irene Charnley
Irene Charnley is a former trade unionist and businesswoman from South Africa. Charnley first made her mark on the African business community as a negotiator for South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers where she spent 13 years coordinating various divisions of union operations. She is one of the richest women on South Africa with an estimated net worth of R1.5 billion. Charnley is the CEO of Smile Telecoms Holdings Ltd, a Mauritius-based Pan-African telecommunications.
Bridgette Radebe
Bridgette Radebe is a South African businesswoman of Tswana descent and the sister of South African businessman Patrice Motsepe and First Lady of South Africa Tshepo Motsepe. She was born on 26 February 1960. Radebe started out as a common miner in the 1980s; managing individual shaft mining operations and producing materials for the larger mine operations in South Africa while working under a contract. She started Mmakau Mining; a mining firm which initiates explorations and helps to produce platinum, gold, and chrome. She has an estimated net worth of R1 billion.
Sharon Wapnick
Sharon Wapnick is Non-Executive Chairman at Octodec Investments Ltd. Ms. Wapnick is also on the board of Transaction Capital Ltd., City Property Administration Pty Ltd and IPS Investments Pty Ltd. She was a Senior Partner at Tugendhaft Wapnick Banchetti & Partners and Non-Executive Chairman at Premium Properties Ltd. Ms. Wapnick received a graduate degree and an undergraduate degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the daughter of billionaire Alec Wapnick, who in 1968 started City Property, a residential and commercial property management company. Wapnick has an estimated net worth of R433 million.
Elizabeth Bradley
She graduated with a BSc from the former University of the Orange Free State and then completed an MSc from London University. In the early 60s she worked as a research chemist in America for 12 months. When she returned to South Africa shortly afterwards, she got involved in Toyota SA. Ms Bradley joined Wesco Investments as Managing Director in 1986 – a company that had a large stake in Toyota SA – and was eventually appointed its chair in 1991. Eleven years later, she became the non-executive chair. Her CV is quite impressive and includes top positions at Standard Bank Group, Tongaat Hulett and Sasol. She is estimated to be worth R322 million.
