Obituary: Legendary hotelier Sol Kerzner

Cape Town in the news:

• Obituary: Legendary hotelier Sol Kerzner: Hotel magnate Sol Kerzner, best known for building the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas and the Sun City resort in South Africa, died of cancer on March 21 at the Kerzner family home in …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
• ‘Our children are dying, but the president doesn’t care’: South Africa’s leader Cyril Ramaphosa is accused of inaction over a spate of child murders.: “Cape Town” – BingNews
• South Africa: ‘Our children are dying, but President Ramaphosa doesn’t care’: In our series of letters from African journalists, South African filmmaker and writer Serusha Govender reports on the growing anger fuelled by a spate of child murders. Passing by Cape Town’s …: “Cape Town” – BingNews
• United Airlines cuts 95% of international flights for April due to coronavirus pandemic: With the cuts announced Friday, the airline said it would suspend all flights to Canada starting April 11. With the exception of the airline’s Cape Town-New York/Newark service, which has a final …: “Cape Town” – BingNews

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Quick Cape Town Fact: Legend has it that in the 1930’s a local Cape Town newspaper claimed that Cape Town was the only city in South Africa that could justly call itself a metropolis. The public took to this description and because the word metropolis is taken from the Greek derivative of meter or metros meaning mother and polis meaning city, the nickname of “Mother City” was born. Although some people joke everything in Cape Town goes at a slower pace compared to Johannesburg – everything takes nine months.