Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa December/ January 2018/2019

JOHANN RUPERT true care and concern to “give back to the people” shown by the Ruperts. “We have evidence! 24 schools in the area have computers and internet. Nobody goes to school hungry. The pupils might arrive hungry but they get a nourishing porridge every morning. At 7 o’clock every morning there are ladies who start cooking the porridge, thanks to the Ru perts,” she said. FMF executive director Leon Louw says the Ruperts are sponsoring the most profound reversal of apartheid possible, BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS 1984: Merged RMB and Rand Consolidated Investments, and left to join his father’s company, the Rembrandt Group. 1988: Founded Compagnie Financiere Richemont in 1988 and was appointed Non-Executive Director of Rothmans International plc in 1988. He was named “Businessman of the Year” by the Sunday Times in the same year. 1989: Appointed Vice Chairman of the Rembrandt Group. 1990: Named business leader of the year by Die Burger newspaper and the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce. Formed the Vendôme Luxury Group SA. 1991: Appointed Chairman of Rembrandt Group Limited and in 1992 he was named one of 200 “Glob- al Leaders of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. 1993: Received the M.S. Louw Award from the A.H.I. (“Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut”). 1996: Named Sunday Times Business Times’s Busi- nessman of the Year for second time. 1997: Appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Gold Fields South Africa Ltd. 1999: Awarded the 1999 Free Market Award by The Free Market Foundation of South Africa. 2000: Restructured Rembrandt Group Limited and formed Remgro Limited and VenFin Limited. Ap- pointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Compag- nie Financière Richemont SA. Voted “Most influential Business Leader” in South Africa by CEOs of top 100 Listed Companies 2004: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Economics by the University of Stellenbosch. 2008: Voted South Africa’s Business Leader of the Year by the CEOs of the Top 100 Companies, for the third time. 2009: Appointed “Officier” of the French “Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur” by the Presi- dent of the French Republic. Selected as the 2009 International Wine Entrepreneur of the Year at the Meininger “Excellence in Wine and Spirit” awards ceremony in Düsseldorf, Germany. Appointed Chan- cellor of Stellenbosch University 2010: Made Honorary Vice President of the Europe- an Golf Tour Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews, Scotland title deeds for black victims of the apartheid land dispossession legacy. While the rest of South Africa is talking about land reform, billionaire businessman Johann Rupert is getting on with actually doing it. He continued, “We are deeply grateful to Johann Rupert for his generous sponsorship without which we cannot do this critical work on behalf of black tenants. He and fellow business leaders and individual sponsors keep Khaya Lam going.” INTERESTS & PHILANTHROPY Founded the Laureus Sport for Good Foun- dation in 1990. Laureus funds 65 projects globally, with the goal of using sport to tackle social issues, having a particular emphasis on underprivileged children. Co-founded the Sports Science Institute with Morne du Plessis and Tim Noakes. Developed the Gary Player designed, Leop- ard Creek Golf Club in Mpumalanga, South Africa which is one of South Africa’s top three golf courses, and rated number 25 outside the United States of America (Golf Digest). He serves as Chairman of the South African PGA Tour and Chairman of the South African Golf Development Board. In 2007 he was elected into South African Sports Hall of Fame and in 2009 was inducted into South African Golf Hall of Fame. He was council member of The South Africa Foundation and trustee of the Southern African Nature Foundation, The Institute of Directors in Southern Africa, Business South Africa and Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns and Managing Trustee and member of the investment committee, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. He served on the Daimler Chrysler International Advisory Board Johann is also a committed conservation- ist. In addition to conserving about 25,000 hectares in the Graaff Reinet area, he is also Chairman of the Peace Parks Foundation Johann and his wife Gaynor are significant sponsors of the Khaya Lam Project (My home). They are directly sponsoring 10,000 title deeds. In January 2018 they handed over 177 full ownership titles to beneficiaries for the property deeds from Kylemore, Le Roux, Cloetesville, Khayamandi and Franschhoek. On 16 November 2018, 70 residents of the Karoo town of Aberdeen walked into the presentation hall as tenants and out as home owners. On 3 December 2018, Johanna and Gaynor Rupert enabled 326 residents of Stel- lenbosch to own title to their properties SA Real Estate Investor Magazine DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 9

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