African Legacy Project starting on FOX Life; 10-episode series profiling entrepreneurs in 4 African countries including two of the sharks from Shark Tank SA.

A new locally produced show, African Legacy Project, is starting on FOX Life (DStv 126 / StarSat 133) profiling some of Africa's entrepreneurs and will give insight in to how two of the "sharks" on M-Net's Shark Tank SA, Gil Oved and Romeo Kumalo, amassed their fortunes.

African Legacy Project is the second locally produced show for FOX Networks Group Africa's FOX Life channel seen on MultiChoice's DStv and StarTimes South Africa's StarSat and will profile 10 different African entrepreneurs from 4 African countries over the course of 10 episodes, starting on Wednesday 26 July at 19:55.

On Tuesday evening FOX in Johannesburg had a launch event for African Legacy Project attended by people like Gil Oved who will be profiled in one of the episodes.

Unfortunately FOX Africa couldn't bother to tell the media covering television about it and that it would be happening, or invite them to the show's launch event.

No transcripts were made available to the press of the people who spoke and since TVwithThinus wasn't there nor knew about it, it's not possible to report about what was said, or more about the show.

African Legacy Project will profile business leaders from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire who all started from so-called "humble beginnings", with episodes covering the deliberate steps they took to achieving their success.

Ivory Coast's Swaady Martin known as "Africa's queen of luxury"; Zimbabwe's Joseph Hundah who is the CEO of Econet Media;  South Africa's dr. Judy Dlamini who is chairperson of the Mbekani Group; Nigeria's Oke Maduewesi who runs the Zaron cosmetic empire; South Africa's Gil Oved who is CEO of The Creative Counsel; South Africa's Renchia Droganis who is the CEO of Africology; the duo Yasmin and Afua of Shehives; South Africa's Romeo Kumalo who is the CEO of Washariki Holdings; South Africa's Candice Thurston who is the founder of the Candi and Co. hair salon, and the Nigerian philantropist Hakeem Bello-Osagie are all profiled.

In the 10 episodes the entrepreneurs will share their worst failures and challenges and tell viewers how they've achieved success with their business ventures.

Dragons' Den South Africa reveals its 5 dragons: Lebo Gunguluza, Vusi Thembekwayo, Polo Leteka Radebe, Gil Oved and Vinny Lingham.

The five South African "dragons" have been revealed who will appear in Dragons' Den South Africa.

The local version of the international format show on Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) will attempt to find and support local entrepreneurs who have innovative product, service and business ideas.

Dragons' Den South Africa is produced by Rapid Blue and will start on Mzansi Magic on Tuesday 23 September at 19:00 with dragons Lebo Gunguluza, Vusi Thembekwayo, Polo Leteka Radebe, Gil Oved and Vinny Lingham.

Gil Oved is the only one with prior experience as a TV presenter - viewers might recognise him as one of the former teen presenters of ZapMag on the ertswhile SABC's TV1, and he also did inserts for M-Net's Carte Blanche.

Nkateko Mabaso, M-Net's director for local interest channels calls the five business people "a very impressive collection".

"The diversity of entrepreneurial spirit and individuality of each of the five dragons is certainly upping the stakes and is likely to play a big part in making Dragons' Den SA unmissable viewing," says Nkateko Mabaso.

Lebo Gunguluza was marketing manager for the SABC's MetroFM before working at ad agency Herdbuoys and then starting his business Gunguluza Entertainment and Corporate Fusion and then Gunguluza Enterprises & Media.

Vusi Thembekwayo is the CEO of Watermark Pan-African Capital Ltd and is the youngest director on a JSE listed company.

Polo Leteka Radebe is the chief executive of Identity Partners.

Vinny Lingham funded his first technology business at age 24 by selling his house for a R125 000 profit and racking up R75 000 in debt on his credit cards. He started incuBeta, Clicks2Customers, Yola.com and launched Gyft in 2012.

Gil Oved's online trading venture went bust in 2001 but today he and Ran Neu-Ner helm a R600 million turnover company, The Creative Counsel, that employs almost a 1 000 people.