Mohammed Dewji’s family offered R6,2 for information leading to his whereabouts, but it’s not sure if any ransom was paid for his release.

Mohammed Dewji’s abductors released on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam this morning.

The 43 year told Forbes magazine, who lists him as Africa’s youngest and Tanzania’s only dollar billionaire that his abductors were South African.

Dewji has not given further details.

He transformed his family’s wholesale grocery business into a six-nation conglomerate dealing in textiles, manufacturing, milling, edible oils and beverages.

He was an MP for Tanzania’s ruling party for a decade until 2015.

He’s offered to donate half his R21-billion fortune to humanitarian causes.

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