Adrian Gardiner at Founder’s Lodge: how reclaimed bush helping create sustainable Eastern Cape

Serial entrepreneur Adrian Gardiner is at his happiest relaxing at the 500ha centre-piece he retained when selling the world famous Shamwari Game Reserve to Dubai World. BizNews founder Alec Hogg travelled to the Eastern Cape to spend time with the 79-year-old dynamo whose dream of returning his adopted province’s rural area into Big Five bush, has turned large swathes of it into a global tourist haven. Inside his luxury a rail carriage now permanently parked in the place where it all began, Gardiner shares the story of how an industry was born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices