Controversial hotel magnate Sol Kerzner gave South Africans their first taste of casinos

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Controversial hotel magnate Sol Kerzner gave South Africans their first taste of casinos
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He created Sun City, an astonishing resort in the bush of the Bophuthatswana apartheid homeland

Sol Kerzner, the man who gave an entire generation of South Africans their first taste of gambling and blue movies through his use of the international status of apartheid bantustans, has died at the age of 84.

Wealth beyond imagining and controversy were never far behind Kerzner who, after cutting his entrepreneurial teeth in the hotel industry in Durban, went on to create one of the most astonishing resorts, Sun City.A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as exclusive Financial Times articles, ProfileData financial data, and digital access to the Sunday Times and Times Select.

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