A 300 year old wine farm on Cape Towns northern edge is being sold again , and it carries the faint imprint of a vanished boardroom kingdom.
Bloemendal Wine Estate, acquired in 2008 by a farming subsidiary of Tokyo Sexwales Mvelaphanda Holdings, went to auction in 2025 with a reserve price of R250 million, according to trade and farming publications. The property is enormous by Cape standards, roughly 240 hectares with vineyards, venues and a steady stream of day visitors.
It is an oddly pastoral marker for a man whose public life has been anything but. Sexwale is one of the countrys best known political survivors, a former Robben Island prisoner who rose under the African National Congress into top government posts, then stepped into business with the sheen of Mandela era legitimacy.
