“Values to live by : quality, competency, empowerment, honesty, promptness, skills development, and being client-orientated.” – Sollie Potgieter Sollie Potgieter, who is best-known in the game-ranching industry for his impressive eland, has a number of successful businesses to his name. Although he is a farmer who takes great pride in his buffalo, gemsbok and Matetsi sable (Burkea Wild specialises in game breeding), he is also a seasoned businessman with around 35 years’ experience in the corporate world.
He initially worked for public enterprises but quickly realised that he preferred to work for himself. “I started totally from scratch, in a small manner,” he recalls, from his office in Pretoria, which is dominated by an enormous painting of his iconic eland, King Dawid. “During the Soweto uprising in the Seventies, business…
