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[TOP STORY] Cape Town has the highest number of centi-millionaires in Africa

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‘Although there are only about 400 centi-millionaires in Africa, if you were to take those 400 people away, it would completely destroy the middle class, for instance, because most of the big companies in Africa were started by those centi-millionaires,’ says Andrew Amolis, head of research at New World Wealth.

19 Sep 2024 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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