South Africa boasts of successful and well-established personalities like Sol Kerzner.
He is a chartered accountant and an accomplished business mogul.
Sol owns the first South African five-star hotel.
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Here is all it’s crucial that you know about him.
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The industry has made him a business magnate, as he owns several investments in the industry.
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Among his most significant investments is Kerzner International, where he is the CEO.
He is also a successful tycoon as he owns a chain of hotels in South Africa and beyond.
His biography contains his success story and his secret to making it in life.
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He has had four marriages that did not end so well.
His first wife was Maureen Adler.
His marriage to Maureen gave rise to three kids; Butch Kerzner, Andrea Kerzner and Beverly Kerzner Mace.
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Butch Kerzner passed on at the age of forty-four after he got involved in a helicopter crash.
He married his second wife, Shirley Bestbier.
Their marriage gave rise to two kids; Brandon Kerzner and Chantal Kerzner Sweeney.
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Shirley Bestbier committed suicide after she had given birth to Chantal Kerzner Sweeney.
He, later on, married his third wife, Anneline Kriel in 1980.
Anneline Kriel had won Miss World 1974.
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Their marriage lasted for five years, after which they divorced.
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After the divorce, Anneline got married to Philip Tucker.
Their union yielded two kids, after which they separated in 1994.
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Anneline, later on, got married in 1997 to Peter Bacon.
Peter Bacon and Anneline have been married for more than twenty years now.
They live in Mauritius.
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As of date, Anneline Kriel age is sixty-three.
In 2000, Sol married his fourth wife, a model; Heather Murphy.
Their marriage lasted for eleven years.
In 2011, they divorced.
Estrada was one of Heather’s great friends.
Sol Kerzner education
Sol is an alumnus of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
While in the university, he pursued a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting.
He is a chartered and qualified accountant.
He actualised the idea through the South Africa Sun International.
That same year, he constructed the first five-star hotel in Umhlanga, in the northern parts of Durban.
In December 1964, he started up the Beverly Hills Hotel.
After launching the Beverly Hills Hotel, Sol started another project.
He constructed the Southern Sun Elangeni & Maharani.
The 450-room hotel was initially called Elangeni Hotel.
The hotel overlooks the Durban beachfront.
In 1969, he decided to develop his business using another strategy.
He collaborated with South African Breweries to come up with a chain of Southern Sun Hotels.
As of 1983, he had thirty hotels in operation, which had over seven thousand rooms.
He also constructed a man-made lake and built four other hotels.
In 2002, he opened the One & Only group of resorts.
Sol Kerzner is an accomplished business magnate since he has flooded the hotel industry.
He generally has great influence in the hotel industry in South Africa.
He has realised the great potential that the country has and made a good break out of it.
He is one person that South Africa is glad to associate with.
She graduated from Meru University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering in 2019.
In 2023, Priscillah finished the AFP course on Digital Investigation Techniques.
She has been writing articles on Briefly.co.za since 2019.
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