South African-born billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong launches Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine plant
NantSA has launched a plant in South Africa that will produce up to 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines yearly by 2025.
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Billionaire Johann Rupert’s Richemont reports double-digit surge in Q3 sales above $6.4 billion
The revenue posted in the third quarter of Richemont’s current financial period represents a 32-percent increase.
South African businessman Shameel Joosub: Vodacom acquisition in Egypt will drive transition from telco to tech-co
Joosub holds a beneficial 0.1-percent stake valued at $13.5 million in Vodacom.
Moroccan tycoon Adil Douiri gains $1.05 million in 44 days from stake in consumer goods group, Mutandis
Douiri is the founder of Mutandis, a leader in the packaged foods industry in Morocco.
Nassef Sawiris’ Orascom Construction adds new projects worth $785 million in Q4 2021
Orascom Construction is a leading global engineering and construction contractor founded by the late Egyptian industrialist Onsi Sawiris.
Led by Uganda-based Kaivan Sattar, Asaak raises $30 million to deepen operations in Africa
Mzabi, who started ARTES with his brothers Mzoughi and Sadok, holds a substantial 24.8-percent stake in the company.
African billionaire heirs are making their mark in philanthropy
The progeny of some of Africas’s wealthiest people are putting in more of their time to giving and impacting.
Tunisian tycoon Moncef Mzabi gains over $1.4 million from stake in automobile retailer
Mzabi, who started ARTES with his brothers Mzoughi and Sadok, holds a substantial 24.8-percent stake in the company.
Cameroonian multimillionaire banker Alain Nkontchou’s stake in Ecobank now worth $3.76 million
Nkontchou controls a beneficial 0.98-percent stake in the bank.
Nigerian mogul Abdul Samad Rabiu’s food business posts huge profit since listing
The news comes despite a slump in fortified sugar sales and a single-digit increase in its direct production costs.
South African billionaire Michiel Le Roux gains more than $141.4 million in 27 days
Le Roux founded Capitec Bank, one of South Africa’s largest retail banks, about 21 years ago.
Australian tycoon Matthew Yates’ OreCorp moves to offload Australian assets to focus on Tanzanian gold
The assets include the Hobbes Prospect within the Yarri Project in the Eastern Goldfields.
Ghanaian tech entrepreneur Jesse Ghansah’s Float secures $17 million in seed funding one year after launch
Float offers innovative solutions to the cash-flow issues that African small and medium businesses experience on a daily basis.
Ghanaian tycoon Joseph Agyepong to build 13 wastewater treatment facilities in Ghana
Jospong Group of Companies is one of Ghana’s most diversified holding companies.
Led by Aisha Cassam Timol, CIM prepares to list 17 million shares worth $3.65 million under employee scheme
CFSL is a non-deposit-taking financial services holding.
Egyptian tech entrepreneur Hossam Taher’s Orcas raises $2.1 million from investors
Orcas is an Egyptian live learning ed-tech startup with active operations in the Middle East and North Africa.