#4 Nicky Oppenheimer

Total assets: $8.20 billion

Year-to-date abundance gains: $250 million

Identity: South African

South Africa’s second-most extravagant man Nicky Oppenheimer, who recently ran the jewel mining firm DeBeers prior to offering it to Anglo-American 10 years prior, has seen his abundance ascend by $250 million this year, from $7.95 billion to $8.2 billion, on account of the revaluation of his confidential value ventures.

Oppenheimer, who is Africa’s third-most extravagant man and South Africa’s second-richest man, contributes most of his total assets in confidential value in Africa, Asia, the United States, and Europe through London-based Stockdale Street and Johannesburg-based Tana Africa Capital.

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