Ecca, which opened Dec. 15, 2003, is the third property at Kwandwe, a two-year-old private reserve in South Africa's Eastern Cape run by CCAfrica (ccafrica.com), the country's premier purveyor of luxury safari lodges.

FORBES: Ecca Park

He also happens to hail from the Eastern Cape, a region that bred both of South Africa's post-apartheid presidents, Mr Mandela and Mr Mbeki.

ECONOMIST: Face value

In the Eastern Cape, for example, one of the poorest of South Africa's nine provinces, ten out of 14 provincial departments, responsible for 97% of the budget, failed to submit proper accounts for 1998-99 to the auditor-general.

ECONOMIST: South Africa