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“ebbe dommisse”

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  • Fortunes

    The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons

    by Ebbe Dommisse ...
    A handful of Afrikaners have risen to the very top of the business world in South Africa in the past three decades, some of them now dollar billionaires with vast global business interests. With Koos Bekker at its helm, media group Naspers grew to dominate the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and was transformed into a global consumer internet group. Johann Rupert boldly extended Richemont's share in ... Read more

    $13.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anton Rupert: A Biography

    by Ebbe Dommisse ...
    The extraordinary life story of South African tycoon and philanthropist Dr Anton Rupert. It is the story of a Karoo boy who grew up during the Depression, struggled to find enough money to study science, and then made good as a businessman - spectacularly so, reaching the Forbes list of the 500 wealthiest people worldwide. Unlike Harry Oppenheimer, another South African millionaire, Rupert was no ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • Anton Rupert

    The Life of a Business Icon

    by Ebbe Dommisse ...
    'This remarkable book reveals that Rupert is a true-blooded fox who understands that life is about building relationships between people, and between people and nature. Oh, that there were more like him...' - Clem Sunter ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff

    First Baronet of De Grendel

    by Ebbe Dommisse ...
    Sir David Graaff’s unique South African story begins as a poor child in Villiersdorp, watching over sheep and pigs. He was helped by a well-off friend of the family and taken to Cape Town to work at the man’s butchery. Within a few years, David was not only in charge of the butchery, but was the first person to use refrigerated food storage facilities for meat in South Africa. With a business ... Read more

    $17.19 USD

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • The Stellenbosch Mafia

    Inside the Billionaire's Club

    by Pieter du Toit ...
    About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa's wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans – and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few.Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as 'The Stellenbosch Mafia', the ... Read more

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  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

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  • Econobabble

    How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense

    by Richard Denniss ...
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  • Independence

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  • The Almighty Dollar

    Follow the Incredible Journey of Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works

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