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Spending Where It Counts Sol Kerzner is reported as having spent some $20 million on an extravaganza to open his Atlantis resort in Dubai, to which he invited the very rich and famous [Dec. 1]. Yet in his own home town of Johannesburg where, as in the rest of South Africa, over half the population is under 25 and many are AIDS orphans, this generation - and the next - faces widespread unemployment, a struggle for education in derelict and under-resourced schools, and homelessness in an environment riddled with crime. The challenge goes out to Kerzner to put an equivalent...
...When I turned to your invention of the Year [Nov. 10], my eye fell upon a beautiful young woman wrapped in a closely typed aura of sheer unpredictability; so I thought it wise to put the record straight. My wife got there first - decades ago. Peter Terry, Johannesburg...
...child of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to South Africa, Kerzner grew up in the back alleys of Johannesburg, and was an amateur boxer before becoming a chartered accountant. He decided to go into the inn-keeping business after his parents bought a modest hotel in the coastal resort of Durban. Still in his 20s, he built the Beverly Hills Hotel, the country's first five-star accommodation. In partnership with South African Breweries, he eventually accumulated 30 hotels stretching from Cape Town across to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius...
While she cared deeply about South Africa and about her role in its struggle for equality, she was also a fundamentally blithe spirit who would cook grand feasts for her friends and sing lyrics like "Pata Pata is the name of a dance we do down Johannesburg...
...giants in helping to build respect for law and international justice.” As part of the award, Goldstone will receive $100,000 and be asked to suggest organizations to which the MacArthur Foundation will donate an additional half million dollars. Goldstone practiced law on the Johannesburg Bar for 17 years, including nine as a justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, established by Nelson Mandela to oversee the democratization of the country. He also helped establish another war crimes tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, chaired the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo from...