240pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

TJ Strydom on how a team of entrepreneurs from the Boland turned a small microlending network into South Africa's largest bank. In 2016 Capitec was rated the world's best bank by the Lafferty Group. In 2024 it has more than 20 million clients.

"Punchy, perceptive and thoroughly researched, this book shows just how astute the founders of Capitec were and how extraordinary their achievement." Neil Joubert, author of Whitey: The rise and rule of the Shoprite king

"The extraordinary story of how a payday lender became South Africa's biggest bank, told with great panache. Indispensable for entrepreneurs from any sector." Time Cohen, editor of Business Maverick

Also available in Afrikaans.

Business journalist TJ Strydom has worked for The Times, Reuters, Sunday Times and Beeld. He is the author of Christo Wiese: Risk & Riches (2019) and Koos Bekker’s Billions (2022). He lives in Johannesburg.

CAPITEC, stalking giants

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