
Wendy Appelbaum © BD Live
Wendy Appelbaum – one of Africa’s most financially influential women – will be speaking to the Adele Searll 100 Club on Friday 21 February.
Wendy inherited money from her father, insurance and property tycoon Donald Gordon. She co-founded the first female-controlled company to list on the JSE (Whiphold) and is a business success in her own right and a leading philanthropist. She is a trustee of one of the largest private charitable foundations in Africa, The Donald Gordon Foundation, as well as the Wendy Appelbaum Foundation, focusing on health, education and women. A wine producer, she lives “on top of a mountain” in Stellenbosch and the subject of her talk to us on Friday 21 February is “Wine, Women and Wrong”












