Africa’s 10 Richest Billionaires

10. Mohamed Mansour
$2,2 billion

Egypt’s Mohamed Mansour runs the transportation empire Mansour Group, which is spread over numerous countries and carries brands such as General Motors and Caterpillar. It represents nine of the top 500 companies in Egypt and employs over 40,000 people. Mansour has also been Egypt’s minister of transportation, and his group handles the area distribution for several major technology brands. Mansour himself sits on many corporate boards and is the chairman of Credit Agricole bank.

09. Naguib Sawiris
$2,5 billion
 
Naguib Sawiris has been less involved with business since the revolution that changed his country, Egypt. Instead the billionaire, who made his fortune in telecoms, formed the Free Egyptian Party and is a staunch critic and opponent to the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. But Sawiris has not hung up his corporate suit yet - it appears as if he is aggressively moving back into the European telecoms market by trying to buy a stake in Telecom Italia.

08. Patrice Motsepe
$2,65 billion
 
As one of South Africa’s richest people, Patrice Motsepe shares a similar source of wealth with many of the country’s elites: mining. A self-made billionaire, he began his career as a lawyer, but soon found a lucrative business buying underperforming gold shafts and making them turn a profit. Motsepe started young, helping his father in their liquor business. After he became a lawyer, he soon was made partner in a large law firm. But Motsepe had bigger goals and today he is chairman of the African Rainbow Minerals mining conglomerate.


07. Othman Benjelloun
$2,75 billion
 
The Moroccan banking and insurance tycoon Othman Benjelloun could be said to have had a good start in life: his father held shares in a small insurance company, which Benjelloun later took over. But the billionaire grew the company into a giant and used it to enter the banking world. Today his company BMCE owns a large share of African Bank and Benjelloun is also chairman of the Moroccan Banking Association. His banking group has a presence in over 20 African countries, as well as states abroad.


06. Christo Wiese
$3,7 billion
 
The main shareholder of retail chain Shoprite, Christo Wiese recently landed in hot water with South Africa’s tax authorities, which claim he owes around $220 million (R2 billion). But that amount will not send Wiese into the poor house. Other than Shoprite he also owns a large stake in the Pepkor Group, which includes retailers such as Pep and Ackermans. Wiese has investments in numerous companies, pushing his value up even more.

05. Mike Adenuga
$4,6 billion
 
The first of Nigeria’s billionaires to appear on this list, Mike Adenuga hit success at a young age: in his twenties netting a government contract to build army barracks. Said to have worked as a security guard and cab driver while studying in the U.S., he was already a millionaire by age 26. But his real fortune would appear after he founded Globacom, a leading telecoms firms in West Africa. Adenuga also established Conoil Producing, one of the largest independent oil producers in Nigeria.


04. Nassef Sawiris
$5,5 billion
 
All three of the Sawiris brothers appear on Forbes’ longer list, but the richest of them all is Nassef Sawiris, a construction tycoon and head of Egypt’s most valuable publicly-traded company, Orascom Construction Industries. Cement is a large part of his business, but Sawiris is also expanding into the fertilizer business. He is the largest stakeholder of technology firm Texas Instruments and can lay claim to being Egypt’s richest man.



03. Johann Rupert & family
$5,7 billion
 
An avid sportsman - particularly golf - South Africa’s Johann Rupert’s father started his empire by manufacturing cigarettes in his garage. Today Anton Rupert’s son heads the Remgro and Richemont groups, the latter owning luxury brands such as Cartier and Dunhill. He also founded Rand Merchant Bank and has expanded successfully into the wine industry.


02. Nicky Oppenheimer & family
$6,4 billion
 
If you had to name South Africa’s equivalent of the Rockefellers, the Oppenheimer family is the obvious choice. But unlike the U.S. dynasty, which made its fortune in oil, the Oppenheimers and particularly Nicky Oppenheimer found wealth in diamonds. Until recently the family owned De Beers, which Nicky ran, but its stake had been sold to Anglo American. Still, to show the reach and wealth of this family in South Africa, consider that Anglo was founded by Nicky’s grandfather, Ernest Oppenheimer



01. Aliko Dangote
$12 billion
 
Before 2008 Nigeria had no billionaires on this list. Then arrived Aliko Dangote, a man with a value nearly doubled that of Africa’s second-richest man. His cement company alone apparently makes up a third of the Nigerian stock market’s value. Dangote hails from a prosperous family - his grandfather was said to be the richest man in West Africa half a century ago. But he has taken it much further, trading in commodities such as flour and sugar.

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Zikiwa zimesalia siku 25 kumaliza mwaka 2012 na kuukaribisha mwaka 2013 hatuna budi kumshukuru mwenyezi mungu muumba wa mbingu na ardhi na kila kitu kilichomo ndani yake kwa kutuwezesha kufikia mpaka hapa tulipo leo hii na tumuombe atujaalie kuuona mwaka mpya wa 2013.

Tutumie wakati huu ambao bado tuna baraka zake kwa kutuwezesha kupumua mpaka hivi sasa katika maombi, yatupasa kumuabudu kila mtu kwa wakati wake na kwa dini yake pasipo kumkwaza mtu mwingine. Tutumie muda huu kuomba msamaha kwa wale wote ambao kwa namna moja au nyingine umewakosea na vivyo hivyo usipokee tu msamaha nawe pia uwasamehe wote waliokukosea kwa namna moja au nyingine na hata kama hawajakusamehe kwa yale uliowakosea.

Ni muda mzuri wa kuwa karibu na familia na kujadili masuala yanayohusu familia yako na jamii inayokuzunguka, Kutafakari nini kimefanyika katika mwaka huu 2012 ambao kwa unyenyekevu tuna uaga na kuukaribisha mwaka mpya wa 2013 na nini kitafanyika katika mwaka mpya 2013.

Mimi binafsi napenda kumshukuru mwenyezi mungu kwa kuniwezesha kuwa hai mpaka dakika hii ninayoitumia kuandika makala hii,Kumshukuru kwa kuniwezesha kutimiza malengo fulanifulani katika mwaka wa 2012 na kunipa uwezo wa kuwa na mipango mipya kwa mwaka ujao wa 2013 na ninamuomba anisimamie na kuniongoza kufanikisha mipango yangu  ya siku za usoni.

Napenda nitumie fursa hii nikiwa kama binadamu wa kawaida ninaamini kuwa katika maisha yangu ya kila siku ninafanya mema na pia ninayo mabaya ninayoyafanya aidha kwa kujua au kutokujua na kuna watu wanaokwazika na mabaya hayo,nina imani kama nimekukosea aidha kwa makusudi au kwa bahati mbaya ni kwasababu mimi ni binadamu na sio mkamilifu na kwa kulitambua hilo ninaomba MSAMAHA kwa wale wote niliowakosea mpaka kufikia leo hii tukijiandaa na kuupokea mwaka mpya wa 2013. Kwa moyo mkunjufu bila kumung'unya maneno wala bila kupepesa macho na bila kukunjakunja vidole ninasema kwamba wale wote walionikosea NIMEWASAMEHE.

SISI sote hapa duniani ni ndugu na binaadamu wote tuko sawa tofauti yetu ni katika rangi ya ngozi,dini,Utaifa,Makabila,Maumbo na haiba. Hapa duniani tunapita safari yetu ni moja na njia ya kufanikisha safari hiyo ni KIFO. Hatuna budi kupendana,kuthaminiana na kusaidiana katika nyakati zote za shida na raha.

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NI KITIMTIM NUSU FAINALI TUSKER LEO, TANZANIA MACHO KWA USO NA UGANDA,ZANZIBAR USO KWA MACHO NA KENYA

MABINGWA watetezi, Uganda na jirani zao Kenya watakuwa na kibarua kizito mbele ya Tanzania Bara na Zanzibar kwenye nusu fainali itakayochezwa leo kwenye Uwanja wa Nambolee, Kampala.

Uganda 'The Cranes' ilikata tiketi hiyo baada ya kuwafunga Ethiopia mabao 2-0, huku Harambee Stars ikiwalaza Malawi kwa bao 1-0.

Awali katika mechi ya robo fainali iliyochezwa mwanzoni, kiungo wa zamani ya Yanga na Simba, Mike Baraza aliiyeingia akitokea benchi aliifungia Kenya 'Harambee Stars' bao pekee katika dakika ya 57 baada ya kuunganisha kwa kichwa shuti la mbali mita 25 la Abdalla Juma na kumpoteza kipa wa Malawi, Charles Swini.

Kwa ushindi huo sasa Harambee Stars watakuwa na kibarua kigumu mbele ya Zanzibar Heroes inayosaka ubingwa wa pili wa michuano hiyo tangu walipofanya hivyo mwaka 1995 hapo Uganda.

Wakati huo huo;Kocha wa Kilimanjaro Stars, Kim Poulsen amemsifia kiungo wake Mwinyi Kazimoto kwa kusema ni mchezaji mwenye akili nyingi na mchezeshaji bora kabisa.

Kauli hiyo ya Poulsen imekuja baada ya Mwinyi kutoa pasi zote mbili zilizozaa mabao mawili yaliyoipa Stars ushindi wa mabao 2-0 katika pambano la robo fainali dhidi ya Rwanda.

Kim alisema kuwa Kazimoto ni kiungo kikuu cha matokeo mazuri ya timu yake kutokana na aina ya uchezaji wake aliodai ni wa kutumia akili zaidi.

SOMA BARUA YA WENGER ALIYOWAANDIKIA MASHABIKI WA ARSENAL

Wenger: 'We have to find a solution' Dear Arsenal supporter, We were not creative or sharp on Saturday. Swansea had a lot of possession so we tried to change things and took a lot of risks. In the end it turned against us and looking back maybe we should have been more cautious and at least secured a 0-0 draw. Overall the quality of our game was not there. It was frustrating because we lacked decisiveness and creativity. It is true that Swansea deserved to win the game. I knew Swansea were a good side and before the game I was concerned that we could be a bit jaded because we had many players who had played a lot of hard games recently. But we were guilty of losing the game at the moment when we should not have lost it. It is a challenging time but we are in this job to turn things around, and I am confident we will because of the quality of the players and the spirit we have in the team. It is a good time to stick together. Away from home we are quite consistent and our results are mainly positive. But at home we have not produced the performances since the beginning of the season that you would expect from us, and that is where we have to find a solution. I am often asked about the January transfer window and the support from the board is there to spend the money if we find the players. But we have a lot of important games coming up. We'll decide on our targets in January but we have to find solutions before then. At the moment there is uncertainty among the fans, they do not have complete confidence that we will win the games. But the results show that it is difficult for everybody at the moment - even those who invested a lot of money. We have to keep the focus, the desire and the ambition, and turn it on. That's how it works during the season. You cannot always jump to definitive conclusions from one game. Saturday's defeat affects the thinking for Olympiacos. There are many players who need a rest, because they are on the verge of getting injured. Some played with knocks against Swansea. It's important that we do well in Greece but, away from home, I'm not too concerned. We look like we play a little bit with the handbrake on at home. It's not fluent. There might be a psychological component in there as well. Finally, I would like to wish Peter Hill-Wood a speedy recovery after he was admitted to hospital on Friday. I hear he is recovering well and my thoughts, along with those of everyone at the Club, are with Peter and his family at this time. Thanks for your support. Arsène Wenger

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