Background

Wayne Bolton is a businessman, conservationist and part-time adventurer.  He is an Ambassador for Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism, a nominee for the prestigious SANParks’ Kudu Award and the Founder and Chairman of the One Land Love It non-profit organisation.

Born in Zambia, Wayne grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) before settling in South Africa where he met and married the woman of his dreams. He graduated from the University of Natal in Durban with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology and English and went on to achieve two post-graduate qualifications in Labour Law.

Yet it was his devastating retrenchment from a senior position in a prestigious company after twenty years of service, that triggered a change in the direction of Wayne’s life - a life which was perhaps all too smooth and uneventful. He instinctively knew he needed to regroup and he found himself sitting under a tree in the bush of Botswana assessing his life and considering his future. The man that emerged was a new person; a person who would learn to grow the hard way.

Wayne’s roots in Africa instilled in him a love for nature, and in furtherance of rhino conservation he became the first man to symbolically join all SANParks game reserves by mountain bike, an expedition of 6000kms over 80 days averaging 100 kilometers a day.

He would go on to a second expedition of 2000 kilometers, linking private game reserves between Port Elizabeth and the Mozambique border before riding into the finish with legendary John Smit, ex-Springbok rugby captain.

Wayne is first and foremost a family man, husband to Nikki and father to his son Daniel and daughter Laura. He sees himself as an ordinary man striving to reach his full potential and to make a positive difference in the world in which his children must live.

Residing in Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa, he continues to inspire ordinary people to move from caring to doing and aspires to leave a legacy.