Sol Kerzner — magnate (sun city) with roots in the Russian Empire
Sol Kerzner was a South African-Israeli hotel magnate born in Johannesburg to parents who had emigrated from Russia. He built Sun City in apartheid-era South Africa — the controversial resort enclave in Bophuthatswana — and later the globally celebrated Atlantis and One&Only luxury resort brands.
Tracing the roots — Russia (Jewish)
His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia who settled in South Africa as part of the early 20th-century Jewish emigration to the British Empire's southern territories. Kerzner's entrepreneurial energy — building from Johannesburg through Sun City to the Bahamas and Dubai — carries the immigrant drive of Russian-Jewish parents who had built lives in an unfamiliar country.
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Russia (Jewish). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.