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ALEXANDRIA THE GREAT

SHE travelled to four continents before she was 18, summitted 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 like 32% for maths,” she tells us on a video call the day after her 30th birthday.

“I didn’t do well in the school structure. Like, it just didn’t suit me,” she says.

She credits one of her teachers with helping her find some focus. “She

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