The Sun City resort, which Sol Kerzner opened in Bophuthatswana in 1979, featured many of the amenities that would characterize Las Vegas Strip “mega-resorts” in the 1990s, and Steve Wynn credited Kerzner’s resort as an influence on The Mirage, which itself sparked the boom on the Strip.
Learn more about casinos in South Africa and everywhere else in Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling.
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