YOUR surprise is ready for you now, my butler tells me with a bashful smile.I’ve been banished from my beach villa for the past hour while the staff at Quilalea Private Island prepare a treat for me. My mind is boggling – this island feels so James Bondish that I’m expecting Daniel Craig to parachute into my bedroom.My chaperone, Vita Sufu, trots up the path ahead of me carefully carrying a cocktail. He walks onto the balcony and proudly pulls aside a fluttering lace curtain that wasn’t there previously. I burst out laughing. Behind the curtain sits a cast iron oval bathtub, overflowing with thick bubbles spangled with gaudy pink hibiscus flowers. The sun is setting in equally vivid pinks in front of me as Sufu discreetly disappears, leaving the cocktail within languid reaching distance of my tub.So this, I think, is what ANC stalwart and mining magnate Tokyo Sexwale gets up to in his time off.Quilalea is a tiny island off Mozambique that Sexwale bought in 2008 for a reported US$70m...
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