Sun goes down on King Sol
Sol Kerzner was a fearless, fiery and creative visionary who put SA on the global hotel and tourism map — but his life was not without controversy
26 March 2020 - 05:00
Sol Kerzner was one of SA’s most influential entrepreneurs. A trailblazer in the leisure and hotel industry, he was straight-talking, fearless and fiery, and he put SA’s hotel and tourist industry on the global map.
Kerzner, who died this week at the age of 84, founded the country’s two largest hotel groups — Southern Sun and Sun International — and developed resorts that transformed tourism in Mauritius, the Maldives, the Bahamas and Dubai. Each project was bigger and bolder, always created to "blow the customer away"...
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