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Koos Bekker's MultiChoice empire is fighting for survival

Koos Bekker spent his entire career building things that outlasted every skeptic. The farm boy from Potchefstroom sold his house, moved to New York and wrote his Columbia Business School thesis on an idea South Africa had never seen: pay television. That idea became M-Net, then MultiChoice, then DStv, the continent's dominant satellite broadcaster. It made him one of Africa's wealthiest men and gave him the platform to invest $33 million in a Ch…
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Billionaires.Africa broke the news in on Monday, March 23, 2026.
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