Sun Manor

"As I drove them back into the city, the chief’s son suddenly announced, to my surprise, that, after discussions with his father, the cabinet would sign the deal with me. The “key” money payment for the rights would be R1.9 million. If I could go to KwaNdebele the following week, the signing would take place. I was truly delighted but also surprised. “Why, may I ask,” I said, “have you agreed to sign now?” They explained that Diana had shown them my bed. “We have seen the bed you sleep in. In our society we have a saying, ‘You can never trust a man until you have seen the bed he sleeps in.’” “Good God,” I thought, “Sol didn’t need to take them all the way to Japan; he could have just taken them to Sun Manor.”"

"On the property front, things could not have been better for Sol. He owned a smart apartment on Cadogan Square, off London’s fashionable Sloane Street. He also had the huge country house, Ibstone, and, in the south of France, a fantastic villa in Èze, a stone’s throw from Monaco on the one side and Nice on the other. In South Africa, he still had Leeukoppie, the sprawling estate on the coast of Hout Bay near Cape Town that he’d bought during his brief marriage to Miss World. And, of course, there was Sun Manor in Johannesburg. In addition, Sol continued to be the proud owner of a luxurious private jet that he kept in Farnborough in the UK. Strangely, he seemed most at home on the jet."