Precious Moloi-Motsepe


Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a South African fashion entrepreneur and a philanthropist of Tswana descent. Her company ran the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Life

Moloi-Motsepe was brought up in Soweto. Her father was a teacher and her mother was a nurse. She attended Wits University from 1982 to 1987 and became a hospital physician and general practitioner. In 1993 she opened a women's health clinic in Johannesburg.
In 1989, she married Patrice Motsepe, a lawyer who was also brought up in Soweto.
Forbes Magazine estimated her family's wealth at $2.5 billion and noted that they were South Africa's wealthiest black couple. They have said that they intend to donate half their wealth to charity and that they are the first couple from Africa to make The Giving Pledge.
She founded the Motsepe Family Foundation in 1999 and she was leading it in 2017. She has a strong interest in fashion and in 2007 she founded an organisation called African Fashion International which encourages young South African designers. She ran the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Johannesburg and in Cape Town. In 2017, the Cape Town event was abandoned by Moloi-Motsepe after high winds in March and rescheduled for the following April.
It was announced in November 2019 that Moloi-Motsepe would become the chancellor of the University of Cape Town on 1 January 2020 succeeding Graça Machel.