Consumer goods · Brewing
AB InBev
Belgian-listed global brewer that combined with SABMiller in 2016 and now owns the South African operating company.
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155 published organisations
Retail · Specialist pet retail
Absolute Pets
South African specialist pet retailer in which Woolworths Holdings acquired a 93.45% controlling interest in April 2024.
Retail · Value clothing and general merchandise
Ackermans
South African value retail brand founded in Wynberg in 1916 and now part of the Pepkor clothing and general merchandise platform.
Healthcare · Pharmaceutical products
Adcock Ingram
South African healthcare products group unbundled from Tiger Brands and relisted in 2008.
Basic Materials · Diversified mining
African Rainbow Minerals
South African diversified mining group formed in its current shape through the 2003–2004 ARMgold, Harmony and Avmin transactions.
Basic Materials · Private investment holding company
African Rainbow Minerals and Exploration Investments
Private holding vehicle known as ARMI, involved in the 2003 transactions and disclosed as ARM’s largest shareholder at 30 June 2025.
Technology · Electrical and electronic equipment
Allied Electric
Original electrical engineering company founded by Bill Venter and colleagues in 1965.
Technology · Telecommunications and electronic technology
Altech
Technology company established by Bill Venter in 1975 and wholly acquired by Altron in 2013.
Technology · Platforms, IT services and distribution
Altron
JSE-listed South African technology group founded by Bill Venter in 1965.
Energy and chemicals · Mining and industrial investment
Anglovaal
Historical South African mining and industrial group that developed the oil-from-coal licence proposal which preceded Sasol.
Basic Materials · Historical diversified mining company
Anglovaal Mining
Diversified listed mining company known as Avmin that adopted the African Rainbow Minerals name after shareholders approved the 2004 transaction.
Basic Materials · Historical gold mining company
ARMgold
Gold company formed by Patrice Motsepe in 1997, listed in 2002 and combined with Harmony Gold through a 2003 share transaction.
Healthcare · Pharmaceuticals
Aspen Pharmacare
Aspen Pharmacare is a South African pharmaceutical group whose modern business began trading in 1997. Stephen Saad and Gus Attridge were two of its four founding members.
Consumer goods · Poultry and animal feed
Astral Foods
JSE-listed poultry and animal feed group unbundled from Tiger Brands in 2001.
Diversified industrials
Barlow Rand
Diversified group name adopted after the 1971 combination with Rand Mines.
Industrials
Barloworld
South African industrial processing, distribution and services group that became privately held in January 2026.
Industrial equipment
Barloworld Equipment
Caterpillar dealer and industrial-equipment service business operating in African territories.
Investment holding
Barloworld Newco
Special-purpose company used by the Entsha and Zahid consortium to acquire Barloworld.
Energy · LNG infrastructure development
Beluluane Gas Company
Beluluane Gas Company is a Mozambique-registered project company with a concession to develop a proposed LNG import terminal at Matola harbour and related pipeline infrastructure.
Consumer · Foodservice distribution
Bidcorp
South African-listed foodservice group with operating roots in 1989, a legal company incorporated in 1995, and an independent JSE listing since May 2016.
Industrial · Services, trading and distribution
Bidvest
Bidvest is a South African services, trading and distribution group built from the company Brian Joffe founded in 1988.
Financial services · Investment holding company
Biltron
Venter family investment company that held 13.58% of Altron A shares at 28 February 2026.
Retail · Limited-range discount retail
Boxer
South African discount retailer with Empangeni operating roots in 1977, acquired by Pick n Pay in 2002 and separately listed in November 2024.
Technology · Software, cloud and IT services
Bytes Technology Group
UK technology company acquired by Altron in 2008 and separately listed through a 2020 demerger.
Financial Services · Banking
Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank is a South African retail bank established in 2001. Michiel le Roux was its founding chief executive, while Riaan Stassen led the bank through much of its early growth.
Financial Services · Banking, insurance and fintech
Capitec Limited
JSE and A2X-listed parent of Capitec Bank, formerly named Capitec Bank Holdings Limited.
Consumer goods · Brewing
Castle Brewery
Johannesburg brewery associated with Charles Glass and the brewing precursor to South African Breweries.
Industrial equipment
Caterpillar
United States equipment manufacturer whose South African dealer relationship with Barloworld began in 1927.
Retail · Supermarket brand
Checkers
Retail brand acquired by the Shoprite group in 1991, later connected to Sixty60’s digital ordering and store-based fulfilment.
Retail · Digital commerce service
Checkers Sixty60
Shoprite group on-demand digital commerce platform launched in November 2019, connecting retail orders, store fulfilment and delivery.
Retail · Health, beauty and pharmacy retail
Clicks
South African health, beauty and pharmacy retailer founded by Jack Goldin in Cape Town in 1968.
Consumer services · Health, beauty and pharmacy retail
Clicks Group Limited
JSE-listed South African health, beauty and pharmacy group whose operations include Clicks retail and pharmaceutical wholesaler UPD.
Retail · Fashion and lifestyle retail
Country Road Group
Australasian fashion and lifestyle group that Woolworths Holdings fully acquired in September 2014 after an earlier controlling investment.
Retail · Department stores
David Jones
Australian department-store business acquired by Woolworths Holdings in 2014 and sold in full in March 2023.
Consumer services · Quick-service restaurants
Debonairs Pizza
South African pizza brand founded in 1991 and acquired by Steers Holdings in 1997.
Financial Services · Insurance, health and banking
Discovery
South African financial-services group founded by Adrian Gore and Barry Swartzberg in 1992. It listed on the JSE in 1999.
Healthcare · Medical scheme administration
Discovery Health
Discovery’s medical scheme administration and managed-care business, separate from the independent medical schemes it serves.
Healthcare · Non-profit medical scheme
Discovery Health Medical Scheme
Independent, member-based non-profit medical scheme that contracts with Discovery Health for administration and managed care.
Investment holding
Entsha
South African investment company holding 51% of the Newco acquisition vehicle for Barloworld.
Energy · LNG supply and trading
ExxonMobil South Africa LNG
ExxonMobil South Africa LNG is an ExxonMobil affiliate that signed a preliminary Heads of Agreement with Zululand Energy Terminal in June 2026 to advance LNG supply discussions for the proposed Richards Bay import terminal.
Investment holding
Falcon Holding
Zahid Group investment vehicle that held 49% of Barloworld Newco in the acquisition circular.
Consumer services · Restaurants and franchising
Famous Brands
JSE-listed South African restaurant franchisor that grew from the Halamandres family’s Steers business.
Financial Services · Retail and commercial banking
First National Bank
FNB is the South African banking division of FirstRand Bank Limited. Its predecessor history is older than the FirstRand group formed in 1998.
Financial Services · Banking and financial services
FirstRand
FirstRand is a South African financial-services group formed through a merger in 1998. Its founding trio was GT Ferreira, Laurie Dippenaar and Paul Harris.
Financial Services · Banking
FirstRand Bank
The South African legal banking subsidiary wholly owned by FirstRand Limited, with separately branded banking operations including FNB and RMB.
Retail · Fashion retail
Foschini
South African fashion retailer founded by George Ivan Rosenthal in 1924 and now operated within TFG.
Basic Materials · Contract mining
Future Mining
Contract mining business founded by Patrice Motsepe in 1994 and identified by ARM as the operating start of his mining-company history.
Retail · Discount retail
Game South Africa
Discount retail chain acquired by Massmart in 1998 and retained as a trading format within the Walmart-owned group.
Energy · Gas infrastructure and power development
Gigajoule Group
Gigajoule is a Southern African energy developer involved in the proposed Matola LNG import project, which its project materials say could connect to the Mozambique–South Africa gas network.
Basic Materials · Gold mining
Harmony Gold
Separate listed gold producer that combined with ARMgold in 2003 and remained an investment reported by ARM at 30 June 2025.
Consumer goods · Cold storage and food products
Imperial Cold Storage
Historical South African cold-storage and food group acquired by Tiger Oats in 1998.
Financial Services · Banking
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Chinese banking group and Standard Bank strategic partner with a 19.7% beneficial holding at 30 June 2026.
Energy and chemicals · Development finance
Industrial Development Corporation
South African national development finance institution established in 1940 and wholly owned by the national government.
Energy · Industry association
Industrial Gas Users Association of Southern Africa
IGUA-SA is an industry association representing large gas users in Southern Africa. It advocates for gas supply security, policy coordination and investment in infrastructure as Mozambique supply declines.
Traditional institutions · Communal land
Ingonyama Trust
The Ingonyama Trust is the statutory trust holding approximately 2.8 million hectares of communal land in KwaZulu-Natal for the benefit of the communities concerned.
Public entities · Land administration
Ingonyama Trust Board
The Ingonyama Trust Board is the statutory public entity responsible for administering the Ingonyama Trust and its affairs within South Africa’s public-finance framework.
Food ingredients
Ingrain
Barloworld food-ingredient business producing starch, glucose and related products.
Telecommunications · Historical mobile-network holding company
Investcom
Dubai and London-listed telecommunications company acquired by MTN Group for US$5.5 billion in 2006.
Financial Services · Specialist banking
Investec Bank Limited
South African operating bank and subsidiary of Investec Limited, distinct from the listed INL parent company.
Financial Services · Banking and wealth management
Investec Limited
South African listed parent in Investec’s dual-listed companies structure, with the INL ordinary-share code on the JSE.
Financial Services · Banking and wealth management
Investec plc
United Kingdom listed parent in Investec’s dual-listed companies structure, with INVP on the LSE and INP on the JSE.
Investment · Historical investment holding company
Johnnic Holdings
Historical MTN shareholder that unbundled a 31.9% MTN Group interest to its shareholders in 2003.
Financial Services · Securities exchange
JSE Limited
South African securities exchange chaired by Phuthuma Nhleko at the October 2026 review date.
Technology · Historical online retailer
Kalahari.com
Historical online retailer combined with Takealot in 2015, in a transaction that also changed the principal shareholders’ interests.
Financial Services · Insurance and asset management
Liberty Holdings
South African insurance and investment holding company that became wholly owned by Standard Bank Group in March 2022.
Retail · Big-box retail and wholesale
Makro South Africa
South African big-box warehouse format that supplied Massmart’s six-store founding base and remains one of the group’s trading brands.
Civic organisations · Immigration advocacy
March & March
March & March is a South African civic movement known for demonstrations demanding stronger immigration enforcement and the prioritisation of citizens in employment and services.
Retail · Multi-format retail and wholesale
Massmart
South African retail and wholesale group built from Makro, listed in 2000 and fully acquired by Walmart through a 2022 scheme.
Energy · Gas transmission and distribution
Matola Gas Company
Matola Gas Company operates gas distribution and transmission infrastructure in Mozambique’s Maputo province. Its network is described by Gigajoule as connected to the ROMPCO pipeline system serving South Africa.
Financial Services · Business banking
Mercantile Bank
Former South African business bank acquired by Capitec in 2019 and integrated into Capitec Bank as its business-banking operation.
Technology · Historical investment holding vehicle
MIH Ecommerce Holdings
Naspers subsidiary identified as Takealot’s acquiring shareholder in the 2017 Tribunal decision, with distinct equity and control rights.
Retail · Women’s fashion
Miladys
Women’s clothing and related-products retailer within Mr Price Group, with an established history separate from the Mr Price apparel concept.
Financial Services · Historical life insurance business
Momentum Life
Historical life-insurance operation in the 1998 FirstRand merger, distinct from the listed company that took the FirstRand name.
Retail · Value fashion and apparel
Mr Price
Fashion-led apparel retail brand and trading division of Mr Price Group, distinct from the wider listed company.
Retail · Fashion, homeware and value retail
Mr Price Group
Mr Price Group is a South African value retailer built by co-founders Stewart Cohen and Laurie Chiappini. They opened the first Mr Price Factory Shop in Klerksdorp in 1985.
Telecommunications · Mobile, digital and fintech services
MTN Group
JSE-listed telecommunications group formed as M-Cell in 1994 and renamed MTN Group in 2002.
Telecommunications · Telecommunications holding company
MTN Holdings
Intermediate MTN holding and debt-issuing company that sits between the listed parent and major operating interests.
Telecommunications · Mobile, digital and fintech services
MTN Nigeria
Nigerian telecommunications company launched in August 2001 and listed on the Nigerian Exchange in May 2019.
Telecommunications · Mobile network operator
MTN South Africa
South African mobile-network operation that launched commercial service on 1 June 1994.
Technology · Internet investment and media
Naspers
South African group incorporated in 1915, transformed through internet investment and retaining voting control of separately listed Prosus.
Financial Services · Banking
Nedbank Group
JSE-listed South African banking group formerly majority owned by Old Mutual and unbundled from the insurer in stages.
Technology · Telematics and vehicle tracking
Netstar
South African vehicle tracking and telematics company acquired by Altron during 1997 and 1998.
Financial Services · Asset management
Ninety One
Independent global asset manager that began inside Investec in 1991 and completed its demerger and dual listing in March 2020.
Retail · European value apparel and home textiles
NKD Group
European family-clothing and home-textile retail group acquired by Mr Price Group on 31 March 2026.
Financial Services · Life assurance
Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa
Old Mutual group’s largest subsidiary and principal South African life-assurance operating company.
Financial Services · Insurance, investment and banking
Old Mutual Limited
Listed South African parent of a pan-African insurance, investment and banking group with roots in the 1845 Cape mutual.
Financial Services · Insurance
OUTsurance
OUTsurance is the South African non-life operating insurer launched in February 1998 by Willem Roos, Howard Aron and René Otto.
Financial Services · Listed insurance holding company
OUTsurance Group
JSE-listed insurance parent created through the 2022 transition and renaming of Rand Merchant Investment Holdings Limited.
Financial Services · Insurance holding company
OUTsurance Holdings
Regulated holding company below OUTsurance Group and owner of the group’s operating insurance interests.
Consumer services · Restaurants and franchising
Panarottis
Pizza and pasta restaurant brand developed by the Spur group in 1990 and operated through its franchise platform.
Retail · Discount clothing and general merchandise
PEP
South African discount retail brand founded by Renier van Rooyen in De Aar in 1965 and now operated within Pepkor.
Retail · Value retail and financial services
Pepkor Holdings
JSE-listed retail group that entered the market as Steinhoff Africa Retail in 2017 and adopted the Pepkor name in 2018.
Investment · Diversified industrial investment company
Phembani Group
South African diversified investment company chaired and co-founded by Phuthuma Nhleko.
Retail · Food and general merchandise retail
Pick n Pay
Pick n Pay is a South African retailer founded in 1967 by Raymond Ackerman with Wendy Ackerman after the family acquired four small stores in Cape Town.
Logistics · On-demand delivery
Pingo Delivery
Last-mile logistics business integrated with Sixty60, moving from a joint venture to full Shoprite group ownership during FY2025.
Industrials · Power equipment and engineering
Powertech
Power technology branch established in 1979, later wholly owned and restructured by Altron.
Technology
Prosus
Separately listed international internet group controlled by Naspers through voting rights, with an economic interest that differs from voting power.
Investment · Investment holding
PSG Group
South African investment group co-founded by Jannie Mouton that supplied early capital and strategic support to Capitec.
Financial Services · Wealth management
Quilter
United Kingdom wealth-management group that separated from Old Mutual and listed independently in 2018.
Financial Services · Corporate and investment banking
Rand Merchant Bank
RMB is a corporate and investment banking business and a division of FirstRand Bank Limited. Discovery records RMB’s support at its establishment in 1992.
Mining
Rand Mines
South African mining group combined with the Barlow business to form Barlow Rand in 1971.
Energy and industrial investment · Energy infrastructure investment
Reatile Group
Reatile is a South African energy and industrial investment group. It holds a 30% interest in Vopak Terminal Durban, one of the local partnerships behind the proposed Richards Bay LNG terminal.
Investment · Investment company
Reinet Investments
Luxembourg investment company created in the 2008 Richemont restructuring, with a portfolio held through Reinet Fund.
Investment · Historical holding company
Rembrandt Group
The South African group founded by Anton Rupert, whose restructurings produced the Remgro and Richemont branches of the Rupert business history.
Investment · Diversified investment holding company
Remgro
South African investment holding company with roots in Anton Rupert’s Rembrandt Group and the restructuring of its South African interests in 2000.
Consumer · Luxury goods
Richemont
Swiss luxury group founded by Johann Rupert in 1988 from Rembrandt’s international assets, with a separate listing and a dual share structure.
Consumer services · Restaurants and franchising
RocoMamas
Restaurant brand in which Spur acquired a 51% interest in 2015, later expanded through the group’s franchise platform.
Energy · Gas transmission
ROMPCO
ROMPCO owns and operates the Mozambique-South Africa Pipeline, the high-pressure gas link carrying natural gas from Mozambique into South Africa.
Energy infrastructure · Tank storage and LNG terminals
Royal Vopak
Royal Vopak is a Netherlands-based independent tank storage operator. Through Vopak Terminal Durban, it is a principal commercial partner in the proposed Richards Bay LNG terminal.
Financial services · Investment holding company
SAB Zenzele Kabili
JSE-listed broad-based black economic empowerment vehicle that holds shares in AB InBev rather than direct equity in SAB.
Consumer goods · Brewing
SABMiller
Former international brewer created from SAB’s expansion and the 2002 Miller transaction, acquired by AB InBev in 2016.
Financial Services · Life insurance
Sanlam Life Insurance
Regulated life-insurance company descended from the 1918 Sanlam mutual and wholly owned within the listed Sanlam group.
Financial Services · Insurance and investment holding company
Sanlam Limited
JSE-listed financial-services group formed through Sanlam’s 1998 demutualisation, with institutional roots in the 1918 life insurer.
Financial Services · General insurance
Santam
South African general insurer founded in 1918 and subject to Sanlam’s proposed 2026 scheme to acquire its remaining eligible shares.
Energy and chemicals · Integrated energy and chemicals
Sasol
Sasol is a listed South African energy and chemicals group built from a state-backed synthetic-fuels project established in 1950.
Energy and chemicals · Chemicals and industrial operations
Sasolburg Operations
Sasol’s first major production base, built during the 1950s and later redirected towards higher-value chemicals.
Energy and chemicals · Synthetic fuels and chemicals
Secunda Operations
Sasol’s integrated Mpumalanga production hub for synthetic fuels, chemicals and pipeline gas, developed through the Sasol Two and Sasol Three projects.
Retail · Operating company
Shoprite Checkers
Main trading subsidiary of Shoprite Holdings and the acquiring company named in the 2024 Pingo Delivery merger proceedings.
Retail · Food retail
Shoprite Holdings
Shoprite is a South African food-retail group whose modern growth story began when an eight-store chain was acquired in 1979. Whitey Basson led the business from that year and built it through organic growth and major acquisitions.
Consumer goods · Brewing
South African Breweries
South African brewer founded in 1895, now recorded as a wholly owned AB InBev group subsidiary.
Healthcare · Historical pharmaceutical manufacturing
South African Druggists
Historical pharmaceutical business acquired by Aspen in 1999, bringing established South African manufacturing operations.
Financial Services · Historical life insurer
Southern Life
Historical South African insurer included in the 1998 FirstRand merger and subsequently renamed FirstRand Insurance Limited.
Consumer services · Restaurants and franchising
Spur Corporation
JSE-listed South African restaurant franchisor whose operating history began with Allen Ambor’s first Spur in 1967.
Consumer services · Restaurants and franchising
Spur Steak Ranches
South African family restaurant brand founded by Allen Ambor in Newlands, Cape Town, in 1967.
Financial Services · Banking, insurance and asset management
Standard Bank Group
JSE-listed African financial-services parent whose history traces to John Paterson’s 1857 Port Elizabeth banking proposal.
Financial Services · Banking
Standard Bank South Africa
Main South African operating bank inside Standard Bank Group, distinct from the listed SBK parent company.
Financial Services · International banking
Standard Chartered
International banking group created in 1969 when the historic Standard Bank merged with the Chartered Bank.
Consumer services · Quick-service restaurants
Steers
South African restaurant brand that developed from George Halamandres’s early Johannesburg steakhouse ventures.
Investment holding · Historical international retail holding company
Steinhoff International
Former controlling shareholder of Pepkor whose successor Ibex disposed of its remaining Pepkor interest in July 2025.
Technology · Historical online retail business
Take2
Historical e-commerce business acquired by Kim Reid and Tiger Global in 2010, before the formal Takealot.com launch in 2011.
Technology · E-commerce
Takealot
South African e-commerce business launched in 2011 after the Take2 acquisition, later combined with Kalahari and brought under Naspers control.
Telecommunications · Fixed and mobile telecommunications
Telkom
South African telecommunications company that held half of Vodacom before the 2009 listing transactions.
Technology · Internet products, games and business technology
Tencent
Chinese technology business established in 1998, connected to South African business history through the Naspers group’s investment and the later Prosus structure.
Consumer services · Fashion and lifestyle retail
TFG
JSE-listed retailer built from the Foschini business founded by George Rosenthal in 1924 and diversified under Stanley Lewis.
Consumer goods · Grocery wholesale and retail services
The SPAR Group
South African wholesale and retail services group unbundled from Tiger Brands and listed in 2004.
Trading and engineering
Thomas Barlow & Sons
Durban trading agency formed by Ernest Barlow in 1902 and predecessor of Barloworld.
Consumer goods · Food and household products
Tiger Brands
JSE-listed South African food group that developed from Jacob Frankel’s Newtown oats business.
Financial Services · Investment management
Tiger Global Management
New York investment firm and historical financial backer of Takealot, involved in the Take2 acquisition and subsequent funding.
Consumer goods · Food manufacturing
Tiger Oats
Historical South African oats and milling company that became Tiger Brands in 2000.
Transport and energy infrastructure · Pipeline transport
Transnet Pipelines
Transnet Pipelines operates South Africa’s state-owned pipeline network and is a partner in the proposed Zululand Energy Terminal and the planned Lilly pipeline gas-repurposing work.
Investment · Private investment holding company
Ubuntu-Botho Investments
Broad-based Black-controlled investment company formed in 2004 as Sanlam’s empowerment partner and a material Sanlam shareholder.
Healthcare · Pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution
United Pharmaceutical Distributors
Clicks Group pharmaceutical wholesaler and distributor serving Clicks, hospital groups, independent pharmacies and manufacturers.
Financial services · Investment management
Value Capital Partners
South African investment firm that controlled 23.94% of Altron A shares at 28 February 2026.
Financial Services · International business division
Vitality Global
Name used for Discovery’s international business in earlier reports. Its history includes Barry Swartzberg’s 2014–2024 leadership and later reporting changes.
Telecommunications · Mobile and digital services
Vodacom Group
JSE-listed African telecommunications group formed in 1993 and commercially launched in South Africa in 1994.
Telecommunications · Mobile network operator
Vodacom South Africa
South African mobile operating company that launched commercial service on 1 June 1994.
Telecommunications · Telecommunications holding company
Vodafone Group
International telecommunications company and controlling shareholder of Vodacom Group.
Retail · Global retail
Walmart
United States retail group that entered South Africa through a 51% Massmart acquisition in 2011 and completed full ownership in 2022.
Consumer services · Casual dining restaurants
Wimpy South Africa
Casual dining restaurant brand whose first South African outlet opened in 1967 and which Famous Brands acquired in 2003.
Retail · Retail financial services
Woolworths Financial Services
Financial-services joint venture in which Absa owns 50% plus one share and the WHL group holds 50% less one share.
Retail · Diversified retail
Woolworths Holdings
JSE-listed South African investment holding company with Woolworths South Africa and Country Road Group as its two operating divisions.
Retail · Food, fashion, beauty and home retail
Woolworths South Africa
Wholly owned South African operating company behind the Woolworths retail business, with roots in Max Sonnenberg’s 1931 Cape Town store.
Financial Services · Personal and business insurance
Youi
Australian insurer launched in 2008 from a model based on OUTsurance and operating within the wider OUTsurance group.
Diversified industrials
Zahid Group
Saudi Arabian family business group and 49% consortium partner in the Barloworld acquisition.
Energy · LNG infrastructure
Zululand Energy Terminal
ZET is the Vopak Terminal Durban–Transnet Pipelines partnership developing a proposed LNG import terminal at Richards Bay. Its current project page targets a 2028 FID and says pre-FEED is under way.