Friday, 23 March 2012

African most Richest Women


WHO ARE THE TOP AFRICAN RICHEST WOMEN?

Gone are thosse days were women use to be stay at home/house wives.Sisters are doing it for themselves. These are are the following richest women in Africa.

Isabel Dos Santos of Angola is the top Richest woman in Africa. She is the daughter of the angolan president Jose Eduaro Dos Santos, This Angolan bussiness women made a name for herself in bussiness using her fathers connections at the age of  24years. she owns 10% of the Zon multimedia, a big media company based in Portugal which she bought for 164 million Pounds. She also has major stakes in Portuge banks and energy companies. 

There are other top richest women in Africa like Bridgette Motsepe born in South Africa she is the eldest sister of South African Billionaire Patrice Motsepe . Radebe began her career as a contract miner in the 1980s. Her background in Mining led her to found the Mmaku mining company which is the largest mining company in South Africa. Bridgette Radebe is also a president of the South African Mining Development Association ( SMMDA) and is also married to justice minister of South Africa Jeff Radebe.

 Elisabeth Bradley also born in South Africa she in the car industry she is also one of the richest woman in Africa she owns a Toyota company which was bought by her father in 1961 to South Africa.She is executive chairman of Wesco Investments limited and shes als serves as an executive director of AngloGold. Wendy Ackerman from South Africa is also one of the richest  in Africa she gained her most of her fortune through owning almost 50% of the large leading chain Pick n Pay. she performs the job of executive director in the $ 3 billion company which has other six stores in other African countries like nambia, Mozabique ,Nambia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and others.    

Ladies it is time we do things for ourselves and stop depending on men to pay our own bills, ladies like Isabel Dos Santos, Bridgette Motsepe, Elisabeth Bradley and Wendy Ackerman are the living proof that women can also be multi-millionaires.




Friday, 16 March 2012


Arguably the most powerful woman

Oprah Winfrey is the most powerful and influential women of the century was born in Kosciusko,Missipi January 29,1954. At a younger age Oprah Winfrey was sexually molested by her uncle,cousin and friend and was forced to wear potato sacks as dresses. despite all these hardships in 1984 Oprah Winfrey made a name for herself in the entertainment industry in the US, when she relocated to Chicago to host the low rated show WLS-TVs within months after Oprah took over the show and the show went from last place in the rating to overtaking Donahue as the highest rated talk show in Chicago she then later hosted her own talk show the Oprah Winfrey show on 1986 in the early years of the Oprah Winfrey show it was classified as a tabloid show but she proved she can tackle broader topics such as heart disease,geopolitics,spirituality, celebrity interviews and social issues. Oprah Winfrey is involved in TV,Radio, writing and publishing and charity work.She starred in movies like purple as a distraught house wife, Sofia and was nominated for academy award for her performance. On February 2006 she signed a three- year, 8,5 million contract with XM satellite radio to establish a new radio channel. Oprah Winfrey became a millionaire at the age of 32 she the highest paid TV entertainer earning a estimated $260 million during annually she was listed the worlds only black billionaire by 2004-2006. She started a school for girls in south Africa :Oprah Winfrey leadership academy for girls which she invested $40 million. Oprah Winfrey is arguably the worlds most powerful and influential woman.