When the new Maslow Hotel Executive Chef says he doesn’t look at the time, he looks to see if a job is done, you start to appreciate why Algerian-born Omar Menhouk says he drinks up to six expressos a day. With more than 20 years’ cheffing experience in some of the continent’s most exclusive properties, he first arrived in South Africa in 1994 to open a well-known French restaurant in Pretoria. He returned to Gauteng in December, after working in neighbouring Swaziland, to head up the kitchen brigade at The Maslow, Sun International’s premier business hotel in the heart of
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Sun City, a Sun International resort, is in the midst of a feeding project that aims to provide food items to local communities, schools, and home-based care organisations. The project was started last October to coincide with World Food Day, which is a day the World Health Organisation has set aside to raise awareness of the dire need for food. The action-oriented campaign promotes global food safety awareness and calls upon countries and decision makers, the private sector, civil society, United Nations organisations and the general public to take action. This Food Hunger Relief/Maize Project is a partnership between Sun
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GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town has adopted Valhalla Secondary School’s feeding initiative for the 2021 academic year, also contributing towards building and equipping a new kitchen facility. The socio-economic development initiative is in partnership with the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA), which addresses hunger in underprivileged young learners and students attending educational institutions through school feeding and other developmental initiatives with the aim of improving school attendance. “We have provided Valhalla Secondary in Elsie’s River with R74 250 to ensure that 165 learners on the school feeding programme are provided with daily nutritious meals, as well as R200 000
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Indulge in the age old tradition of afternoon High Tea at The Boardwalk Hotel. Served in the Lobby Lounge, you will feel relaxed and reenergised as you toss your troubles to the tides while chatting to friends or family. The delectable buffet, with all Covid-10 protocols observed, features a selection of pastries and cakes including milk tart, lemon meringue tart, salted caramel tart, pecan nut tart, strawberry tart, chocolate brownies, cake of the day and strawberry cheese cake. Those who prefer savoury nibbles are also catered to assorted finger sandwiches, assorted mini pies, vegetable spring rolls, mini savoury scones topped
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Hospitality and leisure group Sun International has been awarded by The Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) for the group’s extensive and world-class Covid-19 controls introduced across all hotel and casino properties.   Sun International Health and Safety Specialist Sheena O’Brien was also awarded as the runner up in the ‘Risk Specialist of the Year’ category at the same ceremony, for successfully guiding the group through the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the biggest risk challenges in its 53 years of existence.   The awards were in the Industry Specific Risk Initiative category for the Tourism, Hospitality & Gaming industry.
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Sibaya Community Trust invests in ground-breaking home water treatment plant in rural KZN Families living in rural communities within the iLembe District Municipality will soon have the basic right to safe drinking water in the comfort of their own homes as a result of an initiative by the Sibaya Community Trust.   The pilot project rollout, at a cost of R850 000 of which Sibaya Community Trust is investing 100%, will happen in the next six to eight weeks, and see 100 families living in rural parts of Maphumulo and other areas become recipients of the Amanzi eKhaya, a home water treatment plant. “The Amanzi
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As PJ Powers sang the national athem for assembled guests, newly crowned Miss South Africa, Shudufhadzo Musida and hotel manager Nico Myburgh officially opened the doors to Sun International’s Table Bay hotel in the V&A Waterfront on 30 October.   The luxurious 5-star hotel becomes the last property in the group to reopen after seven long months of lockdown.   In the week prior to its public reopening, the hotel hosted the finale of the 2020 Miss South Africa pageant.   Since the hotel’s launch in 1997, attended by legendary statesman Nelson Mandela, it has acquired a string of local
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Sun International has announced that Tati Tsunke has been appointed the general manager of The Boardwalk in Port Elizabeth, effective 1 November 2020. He will report to the Chief Operating Officer: Hospitality and Resorts. Tsunke was the Human Resources Manager at Time Square Casino in Pretoria for the past two years. “I am thrilled to be moving to the Friendly City, although I shall certainly miss the warmth of Pretoria,” said Tsunke. He joined Sun International in October 2016 as the HR Manager at Sun City Resort and has a longstanding career in Human Resources, with the largest part spent
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