Randolph Everyone has heard of Mark Shuttleworth by now, South Africa's celebrated billionaire who sold out Thawte to VeriSign, and then went into space with the Russians.
But have you heard of Elon Musk? He is the South African who founded PayPal. How about Roelof Botha? Apart from being the grandson of our notorious famous ex-minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, Roelof is credited with selling YouTube to Google for US$1.65bn last week. He sits on the board of many companies, including the venture capitalists Sequoia Capital, who owned YouTube.
So, honey, if you're reading this, I still think I can become a billionaire and buy you that house you wanted.