Billionaire family falls in love with the Delta

Michael Tollman directs the family African affairs PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Michael Tollman directs the family African affairs PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Tollmans, the world’s wealthiest travel and tourism family with over 10,000 employees in 29 companies spread across the world, has fallen in love with Xigera, a small, picturesque camp within the Okavango Delta. The family recently bought the camp and says it will spare no expense in making Xigera the country’s most attractive tourism estate. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

Michael Tollman, nephew of family empire founders Bea and Stanley Tollman, cuts an unassuming picture, given the immense wealth and influence he represents.

Michael is the family’s point man for its African interests and operates out of Cape Town, where the Tollman’s iconic Twelve Apostles Hotel sits, a five-star facility poised above the Atlantic Ocean and flanked by Table Mountain.

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