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Africa's Banking Tycoon: How Michiel Le Roux Built a Multi Billion Dollar Empire.

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A profile of Michiel Le Roux, the entrepreneur who founded Capitec and built a multi-billion-dollar banking business by rethinking how ordinary South Africans bank.

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