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Top 20 listed companies by employees · 🇿🇦 South Africa

The biggest employers on the world's stock exchanges

Updated · employees (employees)

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Why these 20

Head count as reported in Wikidata for companies listed on a stock exchange. Big employers shape job markets: drill into your own country.

  1. 1 S

    Standard Bank

    one of South Africa's largest financial services groups

    69,000

  2. 2 A

    AngloGold Ashanti

    company

    62,046

  3. 3 G

    Gold Fields

    South African mining company

    49,715

  4. 4 F

    First Rand

    holding company of FirstRand Bank

    49,233

  5. 5

    Telkom

    telecommunications provider in South Africa

    26,133

  6. 6 V

    Vodacom

    South African telecommunications company

    7,746

How it is measured

Wikidata: items with a stock exchange (P414) and an employee count of 5,000 or more.

References

  1. Wikidata query: listed companies by employees, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-19 18:49 UTC.

Photo: OpenPlanRedBalloon1 by VeronicaTherese, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures in rows: Wikimedia Commons, GitHub and the linked pages.