While billionaires owe their success due to entrenched family connectedness and inheritance from their forefathers , this is not the case with Bonisile Roberts.
Mrs Roberts rose through the ranks of being a consultant for Agilitee in 2018. After delivering astonishing results to the founder of Agilitee Dr. Mandla Lamba .Dr Lamba decided to bring her on board on full time basis in late 2019
Mrs Roberts is now Africa’s first Electric Vehicles Manufacturer, AI and Green Tech Company, Agilitee’s first female Billionaire.
While other female billionaire like Alexandra Andresen, who first appeared on Forbes’ billionaires list in 2016, when she was just 19 inheriting fortunes from his father, Norwegian Billionaire,Johan H. Andresen Jr, owner of Ferd AS, Roberts earned the fortune through hard work.
Mrs Roberts is the CEO of Agilitee Africa, Africa’s first Electric Vehicles Manufacturer, AI and Green Tech Company Agilitee.
Agilitee is currently cooking up a Johannesburg Stock Exchange IPO which is marked as the first EV, AI and Green Tech IPO in Africa, the IPO values Agilitee $20 billion and this has bumped up Bonisile Roberts net worth to $1,2 billion which makes her one of the richest women in Africa, in the same mold with Angola’s Isabel Dos Santos.
Boni joined Agilitee in 2018 as a consultant, after delivering astonishing results the founder of Agilitee Dr. Mandla Lamba decided to bring her on board on full time basis in late 2019. She has been with Agilitee from word go. Boni is the second largest individual shareholder of Agilitee and she joins other female billionaires that include ,Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Julia Koch, Alice Walton, Jacqueline Mars,Gina Rinehart , Miriam Adelson, Abigail Johnson among others.
Last year the green tech firm, Agilitee, was qualified as one of South Africa’s Top Gender Empowered Companies, making it to the scoreboard with other top empowerment brands in the country comprising top listed counters and other major businesses in both the private and public sectors.
With few years since its founding, the company qualified for the listing endorsed by Standard Bank Group with support from South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equality.
The Top Women Leaders 17th edition is South Africa’s leading gender empowerment brand celebrating public and private sector organizations for prioritizing empowerment as an integral part of their business strategies.
The listing came after months of rigorous research and benchmarking.
The criterion used for qualification includes a number of variables which are:- 20% of female ownership, shareholding or partnership, 20% female executive directors, 30% female employees, 10% female senior management, female-empowerment company policies and women focused skills development.
Agilitee as a result got a Top Women Leaders Certificate & Badge that can be used on its online platforms including its website, social media, and email signature.
The company is pioneering research, importing, manufacturing, and franchising, licensing electric vehicle and ecosystems technology.
