🇿🇦32 years after apartheid, South Africa’s food security is being overlooked. We keep rethinking our farmers through old lenses yet continue blaming white people for everything. Time to face reality. Productive farming feeds the nation, regardless of race‼️
A young Afrikaner from Pretoria looked at the uncertain future in South Africa and chose a path few understood.
Roelof Botha bet on possibility.
Born in South Africa, raised speaking Afrikaans, he pushed himself through an English university, excelled as an actuary, then took a pay cut to join McKinsey.
Still hungry for more, he moved to Stanford on student loans for his MBA, arriving with little but drive and intuition that the future was being built in Silicon Valley.
In 2000 he joined a scrappy startup called PayPal.
No guarantees.
Just Belief and Resilience.
By 28 he was CFO, steering the company through the dot-com crash, taking it public, and navigating its sale to eBay.
Big institutions might have played it safe.
Roelof kept opening doors.
He joined Sequoia Capital in 2003.
There he backed bold founders, led the investment in Instagram, and helped build companies like YouTube, Square, MongoDB and more that touch hundreds of millions of lives.
Today he leads one of the world’s most iconic venture firms, a South African Afrikaner shaping the global tech future from Silicon Valley.
Recently, Roelof was appointed to the SpaceX Board of Directors as an independent director and audit committee member.
The biggest opportunities often lie beyond what feels comfortable or familiar.
Roelof didn’t just chase success.
He carried the quiet determination of his roots and turned it into a legacy that opens doors for dreamers everywhere.
Cape Town’s iconic DHL Stadium is getting a brighter, greener future. New LED floodlights have cut floodlight electricity demand by up to 50%, while 1 500 programmable lights have transformed the venue into a world-class visual spectacle.
David Attenborough eat your heart out!!!!! 🫀🫀🫀
I just had the most incredible trip of my life in South Africa. Being so close to such beautiful animals in their natural habitat, between Kruger Park and Sabi Sands, was something I can barely put into words. It was truly unforgettable...one of those experiences that stays with you forever
A resurfaced clip of Hillary Clinton from 2008 is circulating online in which she says, "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran."