She was officially crowned in the Sun City Superbowl. In 2001, Agbani Darego from Nigeria became the first black woman to receive this coveted award. I brought gambling here, big stars and I organized concerts with Jean-Michel Jarre.” That’s where I would meet my friends, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli and Shirley Bassey.”Īmong other exceptional events, Kerzner introduced the “One Million Dollar Tournament”, the biggest poker competition on the African continent as well the election of Miss World. “ I always believed in Sun City”, Kerzner explains. Built on the land of the ancient kingdom of Bophuthatswana, the only Bantu homeland of a puritanic South Africa where games of chance and gambling are not prohibited, this huge complex has become the South Africa’s Las Vegas. Opened in 1978, Sun City was the dream of Sol Kerzner, a man with a passion for the grandiose and the spectacular.

Hotels, casinos, golf courses, aquatic parks, clubs, cinemas, restaurants and a congress center are all services that have forged the reputation of this city-hotel, a true kingdom of pleasure and recreation. Sun City, a legendary resort in the heart of a semi-desertlike region, stands out for its splendor, its magnificence and its unbounded luxury.

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