Credit: Leeu Estates
Two major international investors in South Africa are the Indian healthcare billionaire Analjit Singh and the German business leader cum philanthropist Jochen Zeitz. And they aren’t the first — in recent years, both the diamond billionaire Lawrence Graff and Sir Richard Branson (who among other things is co-founder and co-chair of not-for-profit initiative The B Team) have invested substantially in properties in the Cape Winelands.
However, Zeitz and Singh have taken investment to a new level. Singh visited South Africa for the first time with his daughter in 2010 to attend the World Cup and says he “fell in love with Franschhoek from the very first moment I saw it. I felt a gripping feeling of belonging, an energy, a sense of place.”