10 South African Entrepreneurs Who Made The Forbes List
10 South African Entrepreneurs Who Made The Forbes List. These are the South African entrepreneurs who that have made significant impact in their respective industries and have been recognised by Forbes. Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014. Its chairperson and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes. It is best known for its lists, which rank billionaires and top 30 individuals under 30. Below are some of the South African entrepreneurs who made the lists.
Nadav Ossendryver
Nadav is on Forbes’ most promising entrepreneurs list. Nadav was Forbes Africa’s youngest-ever member of the 30 Under 30 list. He is the CEO and founder of Latest Sightings, an online, real-time, wildlife spotting service for visitors to the Kruger National Park.
Ricardo Lognath
He is the co-founder of Omninela Medical, a proudly South African health tech start-up, and Health Online Store, Omninela.co.za. The company believes that you should be living without an inability and embraces technology to assist us to live longer and healthier.
Cayley Jorgensen
Cayley Jorgensen is the founder of Ingage Support, she combines her passion for public speaking, mental health and social media to help all South Africans, one small step at a time. Her main focus is creating awareness for mental health and educating parents, teachers, and learners on the mental health pressures of today’s world, as well as resources and techniques to understand and cope better.
Johann Rupert
Johann Peter Rupert is a South African billionaire businessman, who is the eldest son of business tycoon Anton Rupert and his wife Huberte. He is the chairman of the Swiss-based luxury-goods company Richemont and the South Africa-based company Remgro. Since April 2010, he has been the CEO of Compagnie Financiere Richemont. Rupert and family were ranked the richest in South Africa on the 2023 Forbes list, with an estimated net worth of US$10.7 billion.
Esethu Cenga
Esethu Cenga is extremely passionate about sustainability and development, particularly in the context of Africa. She fundamentally believes that the human specie cannot ensure its survival and development without adopting sustainable practises that account for not just profit, but also for people, planet and general wellbeing. From this understanding, she has been driven to create a meaningful impact through co-founding Rewoven – a start-up a textile recycling start-up that aims to divert fashion waste from landfill whilst creating much needed jobs.
Luke Mostert
Luke Mostert is a former South African Venture Capitalist, now turned tech entrepreneur. After completing the first cohort of Accelerate Africa, Luke pivoted into entrepreneurship full-time, co-founding CatalyzU, an African talent-tech startup at the intersection of learning and job placement. A month after CatalyzU exited stealth, the nascent startup was accepted into Techstars Toronto as part of their 2023 batch.
Nicholas F. Oppenheimer
Nicholas F. Oppenheimer is a South African billionaire businessman. He was formerly the chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company, and former deputy chairman of Anglo American. 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 and, again, on its 2020 list, with a reported fortune of US$7.6 billion in August 2020.
Daniel Novitzkas
Daniel Novitzkas is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Specno, he is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to build the worlds greatest innovation agency and teach its frameworks to over a million entrepreneurs by 2030.
Ann-Kathrin Joos
Ann-Kathrin Joos founded Standard Beauty from the lack of high quality beauty products in South Africa. She started Standard Beauty in the midst of the pandemic in June 2020 when her first business hadn’t really taken off. She noticed that there was a gap in the affordable skincare market, as most skincare items are very expensive.
Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe
Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a South African billionaire businessman and football administrator. Since March 2021, he has been president of the Confederation of African Football. He is the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, which has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum. 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 billion.
