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March 5 - What Tiger Woods wants is usually what Tiger Woods gets. But this legendary golf champion may have met his match in the form of Zimbabwe's notorious bureaucracy after his attempts to develop a multi million rand golf course in the resort town of Kariba have been coupled with frustration.
Tiger Woods, the professional American golfer who has more career major wins than any other active golf player in the world, had his heart set on creating a golf course in Kariba, Zimbabwe to the tune of $608 million. Woods believed that Kariba had the potential to be the next Sun City - or even better - where professional golfers would flock to in order to enjoy the course and the location. Woods also wanted to create employment opportunities for local Zimbabwe's and somehow make a positive impact on the country's rotting economy.
However, it was learned that Tiger Woods' has been left frustrated by the Zimbabwean authorities, leading Karikoga Kaseke, the Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority to comment: "Investors are being moved from one office to another. Tiger Woods wants to put a golf course in Kariba but he is being frustrated. Why are we frustrating them?"
Kaseke's last question was put to Walter Mzembi, Tourism and Hospitality Manager, who - after hearing the complaints, as well as the news that Woods wanted to develop Kariba into "something which is better than Sun City" - promised to take up the matter with all the authorities concerned and help the golfer receive the necessary permits to start construction.
In the meantime, Sun City, part of the Sun International group and founded by Sol Kerzner in 1979, remains the leading golf and entertainment resort in Southern Africa, attracting golf professionals and tourists from all over the world to enjoy its stunning courses, casinos, hotels and other forms of entertainment against its natural background.
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