Cape Town: Elon Musk, Pretoria-born entrepreneur is now the second-richest man in the world with a net worth of $128 billion.
He's still some $64 billion behind Jeff Bezos, but that gap is closing all the time. Elon Musk's net worth has soared by roughly $100 billion in the past
12 months, despite the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
South African Dollar Billionaires:
Johann Rupert: $7.48 billion
Nicky Oppenheimer: $6.88 billion
Natie Kirsch: $6.64 billion
Patrice Motsepe: $2.6 billion
Koos Bekker: $2.5 billion
Michiel Le Roux: $1.3 billion
Total: $27.4 billion.
Elon Musk is over $100 billion better off than all of SA's dollar-billionaires combined.
"My proceeds from PayPal were $180m. I put $100m in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent." - @elonmusk
Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, was the world's richest person for years before Bezos knocked him off the top spot in 2017.
Gates's fortune is worth $127.7 billion but would be higher had he not donated large sums to charity over the decades.
Bezos's net worth
is estimated at $182 billion by Bloomberg. He too has seen his personal fortune rise this year as demand for Amazon's services climbed in the pandemic.
Figures provided by: Bloomberg and Forbes
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