SA BORN ENTREPENEURS SINCE 1994

I was reading an article on Brian Joffe latest bid to buy ADCOCK and some of the strategies being used and how he is strategically doing business with BIDVEST. Sharp sharp guy.

Markus Jooste and the Steinhoff/JD group also amazing growth. His strategy on both Steinhoff and JD have reaped rewars. He offered to take ellerines if they paid him 2billion "rumour.

Elon Musk . Changing the way we power cars. changing the space race. Share values amazing. PAYPAL creator amongst other things

Ivan Glasenberg and Glencore. He is worth about 70 -80 billion rand. The company is one of the biggest mining entities in the world. his personel income about 2 billion rand a year conservatively.

Koos Bekker Naspers growth has until recently been phenominal. also share value out of this world.saw potential in Russia . taken on big USA media AND BEATEN THEM.

Allan Graig Knott Senior Amazing vision on the Cellular network. Vodacom and SA cellular has come from knowwhere.

Mark Shuttleworth. Not as much money but is really a tru IT Visionary and IT entrepreneur.

There are many others

Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur chooses/develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources and is fully responsible for its success or failure.

This is the Wiki definition

I think the ultimate winner in this category must be the esteemed No 1 - how many people could build an Familial Empire, escape various prosecutions, run a country(into the ground some say) and have your Citizens build you a Fire Pool using only your wit, connections and misguided loyalty. All this achieved ,having spent more years in Jail than in School- Regardless of what I think of the man and his policies, he has achieved far more than many people with far more opportunities . If this man could only clean up his act he would go down as one of the greatest achievers in Africa but alas it seems he will be remembered more for what he says he has not done then what he has done.

mr hawaii wrote: Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur chooses/develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources and is fully responsible for its success or failure.

This is the Wiki definition

I think the ultimate winner in this category must be the esteemed No 1 - how many people could build an Familial Empire, escape various prosecutions, run a country(into the ground some say) and have your Citizens build you a Fire Pool using only your wit, connections and misguided loyalty. All this achieved ,having spent more years in Jail than in School- Regardless of what I think of the man and his policies, he has achieved far more than many people with far more opportunities . If this man could only clean up his act he would go down as one of the greatest achievers in Africa but alas it seems he will be remembered more for what he says he has not done then what he has done.

Couldn't have explained this any better... Now I just need to figure out who u talking about lol..

Karma wrote:

mr hawaii wrote: Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur chooses/develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources and is fully responsible for its success or failure.

This is the Wiki definition

I think the ultimate winner in this category must be the esteemed No 1 - how many people could build an Familial Empire, escape various prosecutions, run a country(into the ground some say) and have your Citizens build you a Fire Pool using only your wit, connections and misguided loyalty. All this achieved ,having spent more years in Jail than in School- Regardless of what I think of the man and his policies, he has achieved far more than many people with far more opportunities . If this man could only clean up his act he would go down as one of the greatest achievers in Africa but alas it seems he will be remembered more for what he says he has not done then what he has done.

Couldn't have explained this any better... Now I just need to figure out who u talking about lol..

Hint - His face is not on a Banknote.....YET!! :evil:

mr hawaii wrote:

Karma wrote:

mr hawaii wrote: Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur chooses/develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources and is fully responsible for its success or failure.

This is the Wiki definition

I think the ultimate winner in this category must be the esteemed No 1 - how many people could build an Familial Empire, escape various prosecutions, run a country(into the ground some say) and have your Citizens build you a Fire Pool using only your wit, connections and misguided loyalty. All this achieved ,having spent more years in Jail than in School- Regardless of what I think of the man and his policies, he has achieved far more than many people with far more opportunities . If this man could only clean up his act he would go down as one of the greatest achievers in Africa but alas it seems he will be remembered more for what he says he has not done then what he has done.

Couldn't have explained this any better... Now I just need to figure out who u talking about lol..

Hint - His face is not on a Banknote.....YET!! :evil:

Probably next thing to be done..... Build a mint on the "under-sized dwelling", and when questioned, he could say he creating employment for his 7 or 8 wives.. I have lost count how many there are nowadays...

Karma wrote:

mr hawaii wrote:

Karma wrote:

mr hawaii wrote: Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur chooses/develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources and is fully responsible for its success or failure.

This is the Wiki definition

I think the ultimate winner in this category must be the esteemed No 1 - how many people could build an Familial Empire, escape various prosecutions, run a country(into the ground some say) and have your Citizens build you a Fire Pool using only your wit, connections and misguided loyalty. All this achieved ,having spent more years in Jail than in School- Regardless of what I think of the man and his policies, he has achieved far more than many people with far more opportunities . If this man could only clean up his act he would go down as one of the greatest achievers in Africa but alas it seems he will be remembered more for what he says he has not done then what he has done.

Couldn't have explained this any better... Now I just need to figure out who u talking about lol..

Hint - His face is not on a Banknote.....YET!! :evil:

Probably next thing to be done..... Build a mint on the "under-sized dwelling", and when questioned, he could say he creating employment for his 7 or 8 wives.. I have lost count how many there are nowadays...

BUT whatever his many shortcomings (of which there are many) he and his shower-head and subsequent Aids Policy saved more of our Citizens from death and suffering than any other African before him. He changed the Mbeki Genocide mindset and that in itself is worth two or three Olympic sized Fire pools and 3 Bar Kraals.

"BUT whatever his many shortcomings (of which there are many) he and his shower-head and subsequent Aids Policy saved more of our Citizens from death and suffering than any other African before him. He changed the Mbeki Genocide mindset and that in itself is worth two or three Olympic sized Fire pools and 3 Bar Kraals."

That's his job ... it's what he's paid a salary for. If a guy is put in charge of a factory and finds his predecessor made a serious mess of one of the processes, he fixes it. That's his job. That's why he's paid better than the guy who drives the forklift truck.

I wonder what Nkandla costs in terms of upkeep and repairs?

Mavourneen wrote: "BUT whatever his many shortcomings (of which there are many) he and his shower-head and subsequent Aids Policy saved more of our Citizens from death and suffering than any other African before him. He changed the Mbeki Genocide mindset and that in itself is worth two or three Olympic sized Fire pools and 3 Bar Kraals."

That's his job ... it's what he's paid a salary for. If a guy is put in charge of a factory and finds his predecessor made a serious mess of one of the processes, he fixes it. That's his job. That's why he's paid better than the guy who drives the forklift truck.

I wonder what Nkandla costs in terms of upkeep and repairs?

Can use local unskilled labour on casual basis and pay minimum hourly wages! Thats creating employment aint it!

Many more SA born tenderpreneurs since 1994...

i was looking at the positive. People adding value and creating jobs. not just taking from the poor with no long term sustainability in sight

Sylvester wrote: i was looking at the positive. People adding value and creating jobs. not just taking from the poor with no long term sustainability in sight

Another one worth a mention...Whitey Basson, Shoprite. Over 100 k jobs created and maintained, 2nd biggest retailer in the world