Sandton's latest entrant is The Maslow, a hip, designer offering by the SunInternational hotel group that opened at the end of 2012, offering 283 rooms in an urban park setting.
Prior to 2004 Conrad Black was a columnist, as well as chairman and chief executive of Hollinger International (now part of Sun-Times Media Group), a newspaper publishing giant whose holdings include the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Telegraph.