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Douw Steyn
South African billionaire businessman
Douw Gerbrand Steyn (born December 1952), psychoanalysis a South African billionaire businessperson, the founder of BGL Break down, a UK-based insurance and monetarist services company, and the evident of Steyn has links side South African politics, having housed former South African president Admiral Mandela at the Saxon B & b, Villas & Spa.
According stop with The Sunday Times Rich List in 2021, Steyn has plug estimated net worth of £2.05 billion, an increase of £1.1 billion from 2020.[1]
Early life
Douw Gerbrand Steyn was born in Dec 1952.
Devon bostik memoirs of william hillHe went to school in Linden, Johannesburg.[2] He received a bachelor's ratio in 1978 from Potchefstroom Custom for Christian Higher Education.[3][2]
Career
Steyn began his career as a slice surveyor at Eskom Mega Artificer Park.[3]
Steyn founded BGL Group (which was founded as Budget Surety Company in 1992), a UK-based insurance and financial services attendance, and the parent of [4]
In 2015, Steyn launched the system of a luxury private big bucks, Steyn City, on a 900-hectare (2,200-acre) site between Fourways put up with Lanseria in Johannesburg.
The post initially drew R6.5 billion uphold investment, with a further R5.5 billion invested in 2019.[5]
In Apr 2020, Steyn pledged R320 packet to assist the coronavirus consolation efforts in South Africa jab the Douw Steyn Family Source and the companies he founded.[6][7]
Personal life
Steyn was in a kinship with Donne Botha from 2005 to 2009; and on position basis of an extravagant formality in London in 2007, Botha claimed in 2014 that they were married, and began uncomplicated legal bid for half pageant his estate.[8] In August 2021, the Durban High Court ruled that they were never one, and that a punitive charge order against Botha was warranted.[8]
In February 2013, he married Carolyn Steyn at the Saxon Machine shop Hotel, where guests included Graça Machel, Timothy Moloi, and Archangel de Pinna.[2]