A new list of the world’s 20 richest Black individuals in 2025 has surfaced online, reaffirming Nigerian industrialist Aliko ...

Spain, Brazil and South Africa announced a new global coalition to tax the super-rich at the Fourth Financing for Development Conference in Seville, Spain. Oxfam said the alliance created at the UN ...

Manchester International Festival 2025 officially gets underway at 6pm today as a herd of life-sized puppet animals stampede through the streets of Manchester to launch the festival, travelling north ...

Ralph Ziman has always been a pacifist — so much so that he became a conscientious objector and left his home country of ...

Aliko Dangote of Nigeria tops the list of the richest men in Africa, with a net worth of $23.9 billion (£18.64 bn), up from $13.9 billion (£10.84 billion) a year ago.

In terms of the overall world list, South Africa-born Elon Musk is the world’s richest person. Below, the list of the top seven richest South Africans in the world as of 5 April 2025.

Africa’s richest person in 2025, Aliko Dangote. Nassef Sawiris, an investor and scion of Egypt’s wealthiest family, is fourth, with a net worth of $9.6 billion (R176.9 billion).

South Africa finds itself in a similar predicament as the rich uncle of the 1990s, who struggled his way through the 2000s, kept on good appearances, before the wheels came off in the 2010s and ...

Nicky Oppenheimer — South Africa ($8.4 billion) Heir to the De Beers diamond empire, Nicky Oppenheimer made headlines in 2012 by selling the family’s 40 per cent stake in the company for $5.1 ...

Nicky Oppenheimer — South Africa ($8.4 billion) Heir to the De Beers diamond empire, Nicky Oppenheimer made headlines in 2012 by selling the family’s 40 per cent stake in the company for $5.1 ...