Sasol
Energy and chemical company, Sasol is one of only a few indigenously South African businesses in the top 10 having been established in Sasolburg in 1950.
Sasol has 34,000 people working in 37 countries but traces back its humble beginnings to
the original coal-to-liquids complex at Sasolburg when it produced its first eight drums of creosote in 1955.
Sasol also boasted the accolade of the leading petrochemical company in South Africa.