FORTUNES, the rise and rise of Afrikaner tycoons, translated by Linda Dietrich

447pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, 2021 (2021)

Ebbe Dommisse on how Koos Bekker of Naspers, Johann Rupert of Richemont, Christo Wiese and Whitey Basson of Pepkor and Shoprite, and other business leaders such as Jannie Mouton, Michiel le Roux, Douw Steyn, Roelof Botha and Hendrik du Toit, built their empires.

Ebbe Dommisse is the author of Anton Rupert – a biography and Sir David Pieter De Villiers Graaff - First Baronet of De Grendel. Now retired, he was editor-in-chief of Die Burger.