South African billionaire Koos Bekker faces backlash over 2,700-acre estate in England
Villagers around Koos Bekker's Newt hotel in Somerset have started a petition over pesticides and blame the estate for floods and drying streams.
Karen Roos
South African billionaire Koos Bekker is buying up a corner of England
Koos Bekker, the billionaire who turned Naspers into a Tencent fortune, now owns more than 2,700 acres of Somerset farmland, pubs and shops.
Karen Roos built Babylonstoren into one of South Africa's top luxury e-commerce brands while her billionaire husband Koos Bekker watched from the sideline
Karen Roos is turning Babylonstoren, the Cape Dutch farm estate she bought with billionaire Koos Bekker, into a top South African luxury e-commerce brand.
Billionaire Koos Bekker’s The Newt is reshaping life near Castle Cary in rural Somerset
Koos Bekker’s Somerset estate, The Newt, has turned nearby Castle Cary into a higher profile stop for tourism, rail travel and rural investment.