African Sun

The group spun off from the Delta Corporation in 2003 with Shingi Munyeza as CEO.[2]

In 2011, African Sun retrieved from the management of The Grace hotel in Rosebank, Cape Town.[3] By 2012, it managed 1,000 rooms.[2] In 2009, Africa Sun welcomed the US President Barack Obama in its Holiday Inn-managed hotel at the Accra airport (in Ghana).[4]

In January 2015, the company sold its hotels in Ghana and Nigeria, and announced a year later its withdrawal from regional operations to focus on its domestic market.[5] In March 2015, Shingi Munyeza left and E.T Shangwa became the CEO.[6]

In February 2016, African Sun paid a 200,000-dollar water bill to the municipality of Victoria Falls to clear its outstanding 383,000-dollar debt.[7] In July 2016, African Sun bought 2,050 m2 of the Harare Gardens to extend the Crowne Plaza Momomotapa Hotel, a deal that was in the pipes since 2010.[8] In October 2017, Brainworks, African Sun's holding company, was introduced in the JSE, the first Zimbabwe-based company to be indexed on the South African stock exchange.[9] In July 2018, Nkala stepped down, and Alex Makamure was appointed new chairman of the board.[10]

In 2018, the group's revenue grew 32% to 68.5 million dollars,[11] and it spent 5.8 million dollars in refurbishments.[12] In 2019, the Zimbabwe fuel protests led to revenue drops for African Sun.[13]

In May 2019, African Sun terminated its deal with the South-African Legacy Hospitality regarding the management of 5 of its hotels.[11] The deal was running since October 2015, and implied that Legacy Hospitality would refurbish the properties it would manage.[14] The deal cancellation was justified by "disagreements", and African sun assured that Legacy Hospitality was actually not in charge of refurbishing the hotels under management.[15] Two months later, Legacy Hospitality appealed the cancellation in court.[16]

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