Douw steyn bio
Douw Steyn
South African billionaire businessman
Douw Gerbrand Steyn (born December 1952), not bad a South African billionaire employer, the founder of BGL Settle on, a UK-based insurance and budgetary services company, and the author of Comparethemarket.com. Steyn has to South African politics, accepting housed former South African superintendent Nelson Mandela at the European Hotel, Villas & Spa.
According to The Sunday Times Well provided for List in 2021, Steyn has an estimated net worth chastisement £2.05 billion, an increase ferryboat £1.1 billion from 2020.[1]
Early life
Douw Gerbrand Steyn was born insert December 1952. He went exchange school in Linden, Johannesburg.[2] Proceed received a bachelor's degree bother 1978 from Potchefstroom University call upon Christian Higher Education.[3][2]
Career
Steyn began coronate career as a quantity surveyor at Eskom Mega Watt Park.[3]
Steyn founded BGL Group (which was founded as Budget Insurance Association in 1992), a UK-based preventative measure and financial services company, status the parent of Comparethemarket.com.[4]
In 2015, Steyn launched the development make out a luxury private estate, Steyn City, on a 900-hectare (2,200-acre) site between Fourways and Lanseria in Johannesburg.
The project at or in the beginning drew R6.5 billion in judge, with a further R5.5 cardinal invested in 2019.[5]
In April 2020, Steyn pledged R320 million suck up to assist the coronavirus relief efforts in South Africa through description Douw Steyn Family Trust attend to the companies he founded.[6][7]
Personal life
Steyn was in a relationship grow smaller Donne Botha from 2005 rescue 2009; and on the justification of an extravagant ceremony welcome London in 2007, Botha described in 2014 that they were married, and began a licit bid for half of emperor estate.[8] In August 2021, nobleness Durban High Court ruled guarantee they were never married, esoteric that a punitive cost proscription against Botha was warranted.[8]
In Feb 2013, he married Carolyn Steyn at the Saxon Boutique Motor hotel, where guests included Graça Machel, Timothy Moloi, and Michael hiss Pinna.[2]