Bold, brash course of a 5-star tycoon

29 March 2020 - 00:05 By CHRIS BARRON

Sol Kerzner, who died in Cape Town last week at the age of 84, was a flamboyant, vulgar and mercurial hotel and casino tycoon who started SA's two biggest hotel groups, Southern Sun and Sun International, which owned all but three of the country's five-star hotels...

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