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Highlights Special of the 9th FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit

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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives retail bank African Bank are taking to advance women in business and society. Edna Montse, Group Chief Transformation and Sustainability Officer at African Bank speaks to CNBC Africa on more.</p>


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Focus On Forbes Woman Africa: African Bank on empowering women through financial inclusion

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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives cosmetics giant L’Oreal are taking to advance women in business and society. Miss South Africa 2023, Natasha Joubert joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Focus On Forbes Woman Africa: Miss SA Natasha Joubert on the role of education in empowering women

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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives multinational fast food chain McDonald’s are taking to advance women in business and society. Sechaba Motsieloa, Marketing Director at McDonald’s SA joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives global payment technology company Visa is taking to advance women in business and society. Lineshree Moodley, Country Head at Visa South Africa and Vusi Fele, Chief Procurement Officer at Absa joins CNBC Africa to expand on their partnership on Visa&#8217;s initiatives.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives sports betting company Hollywoodbets are taking to advance women in business and society. CNBC Africa is joined by the Hollywoodbets Legal and Compliance Manager, Zandile Dlamini to unpack this further.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives industrial and specialty gas products manufacturer Air Products are taking to advance women in business and society. Arthi Govender, General Manager, Marketing at Air Products joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives luxury vehicle company Mercedes-Benz are taking to advance women in business and society. Alexandra Boavida, Vice President Marketing &#038; Sales at Mercedes-Benz South Africa joins CNBC Africa at the event for more.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives global professional services network KPMG are taking to advance women in business and society. CNBC Africa caught up with Alan Barr, Partner, Private Enterprise at KPMG for more information.</p>


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<p>This Focus On episode, hosted at the ninth Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, highlights the importance of International Women&#8217;s Day and the initiatives luxury sneaker brand Hibacci are taking to advance women in business and society. Co-Founder of Hibacci, Nokuthula Nunge joins CNBC Africa on more.</p>


Focus On Forbes Woman Africa: Hibacci Co-Founder Nokuthula Nunge on using power & influence for good

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<p>Celebrating its ninth landmark year in 2024, the 9th FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit, will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day. The theme is &#8220;Women Unscripted: Powering Innovation And Impact In Africa&#8221;.</p>


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<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk’s net worth topped $100 billion on Friday, according to the Forbes real-time billionaires list, as the shares of electric-car maker Tesla Inc (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TSLA.O">TSLA.O</a>) see a more than five-fold surge in value this year.</p>



<p>A large chunk of his wealth comes from the 21% stake in Tesla, according to Forbes. Tesla shares, which went public at $17 a piece in 2010, rose as much as 3.5% in morning trade to a record high of $2,318.49.</p>



<p>The company became the world’s most valuable carmaker by market capitalization on July 1 when it overtook front runner Toyota Motor Corp (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/7203.T">7203.T</a>) and has over the last 10 years made many of its retail investors millionaires.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gettyimages-1155740300-594x594.jpg" alt="Billionaire Elon Musk: I am not Warren Buffett’s biggest fan" class="wp-image-351991" width="704" height="486" srcset="https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gettyimages-1155740300-594x594.jpg 594w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gettyimages-1155740300-594x594-300x207.jpg 300w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gettyimages-1155740300-594x594-100x70.jpg 100w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gettyimages-1155740300-594x594-218x150.jpg 218w" sizes="(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px" /><figcaption>Billionaire Elon Musk: I am not Warren Buffett’s biggest fan (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for E3/Entertainment Software Association)</figcaption></figure>



<p>Musk is now part of an elite club of just four others with twelve digit net worth. His nearly $100 billion, however, is just about half the net worth of the world’s richest man and Amazon.com Inc (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/AMZN.O">AMZN.O</a>) CEO Jeff Bezos, according to Forbes.</p>



<p>Musk, who co-founded and sold Internet payments company PayPal Holdings Inc (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/PYPL.O">PYPL.O</a>), now leads some of the most futuristic companies in the world.</p>



<p>Besides Tesla, he heads rocket company SpaceX and Neuralink, a startup that is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect the human brain to computers.</p>



<p>He set up the Boring Company to make affordable tunnels below busy city streets to for an all-electric public transportation system to avoid the nasty traffic jams in U.S. cities.</p>


Elon Musk At SpaceX Headquarters

South African born Elon Musk’s net worth tops $100 billion: Forbes


<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Twitter Inc (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TWTR.N">TWTR.N</a>) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey on Tuesday pledged $1 billion of his stake in Square Inc (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/SQ.N">SQ.N</a>), the payments processor that he co-founded and heads, to help fund relief efforts related to the coronavirus pandemic.</p>



<p>In a series of tweets, Dorsey said the amount, representing about 28% of his wealth, will be donated to his charity fund, Start Small LLC, which would later focus its attention to universal basic income and girls’ health and education.</p>



<p>Dorsey, who for years has kept details of his charitable efforts private, said all donations to and from the fund would now be visible to the public at all times through a public document.</p>



<p>Dorsey, whose net worth is estimated at $3.3 billion by Forbes, also said that he was pledging his stake in Square instead of Twitter because he owns a bigger portion of the payments processor.</p>



<p>He also said that he would pace the sale of the pledged shares over time.</p>



<p>The United States has recorded more than 380,000 coronavirus cases, with the total death toll rising to about 12,300.</p>



<p>(Reporting by Shariq Khan in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D&#8217;Silva)</p>



<p>This article was first published on Reuters <a href="https://reut.rs/3c0AUKL">https://reut.rs/3c0AUKL</a> and is republished with its permission.</p>



<p>For more coverage on COVID-19 visit: <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/covid-19/">https://www.cnbcafrica.com/covid-19/</a></p>


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Highlights Special of the 9th FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit

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