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From child rebel to self-made tech millionaire, SA’s Alexandria is making waves

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Alexandria Procter has been running a multimillion rand tech company for the past six years. (PHOTO: Supplied)
Alexandria Procter has been running a multimillion rand tech company for the past six years. (PHOTO: Supplied)

She travelled to four continents before she was 18, summited Kilimanjaro at 20 and by 24 she was one of South Africa’s youngest self-made millionaires.

Pretty impressive stuff for a woman whose first record was being the youngest child at her school to get detention – she was six – and going on to just making it through most of her school career.

“Every year I scraped through,” Alexandria Procter says. “In Grade 11, I remember getting 32% for maths,” she tells us on a video call the day after her 30th birthday.

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