The Rupert family is a well-known family from Stellenbosch, South Africa

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Anton Rupert

Anton Rupert

Dr. Anthony Edward Rupert was an Afrikaner South African billionaire entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist. He was born and raised in the small town of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape. He studied in Pretoria and ultimately moved to Stellenbosch, where he established the Rembrandt Group ...

 (4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006) and his wife Huberte Rupert (– 28 October 2005) moved to a home in Thibault Street on the northern banks of the Eerste River

Eerste River

Eerste River, located in the Western Cape, South Africa, rises on Dwarsberg 60 km east of Cape Town at the head of Jonkershoek. The Eerste River catchment covers the eastern part of the Cape Flats lying to the west of the Hottentots Holland Mountains and south of the Tygerberg where the Kuils River...

 in the 1950s. His two brothers, Jan and Koos, with their respective wives Ina and Rona

Rona Rupert

Rona Rupert née Davel was a South African author. Born in Calvinia, South Africa. Her father was a lecturer of Afrikaans and Dutch, before the family moved to Calvinia and bought Doega farm....

 also settled in Thibault Street a few years after their arrival.

Anton and Huberte had three children: Johann

Johann Rupert

Johann Peter Rupert is the eldest son of the late South African business tycoon Anton Rupert and his wife Huberte Rupert. He is the chairman of the Swiss-based luxury-goods company Richemont as well as of the South Africa-based company Remgro...

, Antonij and Hanneli. The boys attended Paul Roos Gymnasium

Paul Roos Gymnasium

Paul Roos Gymnasium is a government school for boys in the town of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, founded in 1866 as Stellenbosch Gymnasium....

, while Hanneli went to Bloemhof Girl's High. In the early years Huberte would deliver the children to school in her DKW

DKW

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 and then perform secretarial duties at the Rembrandt office which was situated in Bird

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Anton and Huberte were considered philanthropist

Philanthropist

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s, supporting a number of projects for the preservation of the art

Art

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The Rupert family is listed as number 272 on the Forbes

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 list of the 500 wealthiest worldwide, with a net worth of $2.3 billion, according to the survey released in March 2005 http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRL9DS.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=L9DS&datatype=Person.