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Alloy wheels'. Airconditioner'. ('Optiona/). (BBOOIMULTlLEVEl 00311/R/e Contents HISTORY OF SOUTHERN SUN - A Top Chain of Hotels Offering Hospitality Nationwide 2 CONDITIONS OF SERVICE - Remuneration, Pensions, Annual Leave 4 BIOGRAPHIES - Peter Bacon, Bruno Corte, Eugene Joannides, Mark Williamson-Noble, Geoff Stamper, Bernhard Haechler Frank Pfaller "There is a career in Southern Sun for you." As Chairman of Southern Sun Hotels I am extremely proud of our progress since this Company began about 13 years ago. Since then we have achieved international recognition from both our customers and our competitors, because of the excit• ing atmosphere in every Southern Sun hotel, and because of our unstinting efforts to achieve in all departments the highest SOL KERZNER PETER BACON standards in the world. Most of our success has come about because of the willingness of all of the growing family of South• The Southern Sun group of hotels is now recognized world• ern Sun to work constantly to achieve these standards. wide, and even more significantly, is growing at a tremendous Now, our hotels both in the resort and in the city hotel fields rate. We believe our success has been due to locating our proper position in the market of fine hotels in southern Africa are among the leaders in the world, and certainly, such as the which we now dominate by far. large complex of Sun City, are major innovations on an inter• In the management of Southern Sun we know the priorities national scale. and direction of the Company and closely monitor our stan• The Company has recently acquired two additional tuxury dards and controls to see that our goals are achieved. hotels on the island of Mauritius and several other five star units In Southern Sun we try to know our guests and constantly strive are being built in the Republic and will epen this year. for the highest standards to keep them with us permanently. As in the past, our progress to a major extent will depend We firmly believe that the strengths of a hotel group such as upon those people of our team who carry the face and image of ours lie in the quality and enthusiasm of its management and Southern Sun to the public by maintaining the standards we those other supporting individuals who serve our guests. With have set. In short, we need people on many levels and believe our dramatic growth (we now operate 29 major hotels with that in turn Southern Sun can offer career opportunities un• three more due to open shortly), Southern Sun presents career opportunities rare in the hotel profession. duplicated in the hotel and resort professions. We are a Company of hoteliers, in all phases of our operation It your goals are our goals there is a career in Southern Sun and will continue to be. for you. I am pleased that we have this opportunity to get to It your goal is such a rare career opportunity, this may well meet each other. be the Company to which to tie your future. Sol Kerzner Peter Bacon Chairman, Southern Sun Hotels Managing Director, Southern Sun Hotels Southern Sun Head Office, Johannesburg. Tel. 783-5340. P.O. Box 5087, Sandton 2146. Telex 423923 - 422246 London: Tel. 01-580-6133. 307 Albany House, 324 Regent Street, S.W.I. Telex 28951 Southern Sun Group History -------------- --~--------------- Mmabatho Sun - popu• lar weekend fun resort, Boph uthatswana. ties," he said, "but I knew we could offer our guests far more. This included a superb view, exciting architecture designed to exploit that view, bars and attractive restaurants with excellent food where people would wish to linger, standard amenities such as private bath and radio, inviting public areas and a glamorous pool• deck; all fundamental ele• ments today but far from common in 1964." In two years Sol Kerzner turned the Beverly Hills into a premier playground for local and international tourists, and in 1967 he bought the Torquay Hotel on Durban's beachfront in order to demolish it and build the Elangeni. The Elangeni opened in 1972 with 280 rooms and was an immediate and re• sounding success. Another a Top Chain of 170 rooms were added in 1973, making a total of 453, and today the hotel still en• Prestigious Hotels offering joys occupancies in the high eighties. Unexcelled Hospita I ity Financial Support It was the first major "Our strengths lie in the quality and enthusiasm of our manage• phase of a project con• ment and its commitment to the group's goals" ceived in 1966, hotels in prime sites which would Southern Sun was estab• eted from R3,1 million to This enabled him to buy form a group offering real lished in 1969 when S.A. R140,8 million in 10 years, the site for the Beverly hospitality nationwide. For Breweries Limited and Sol but the dynamism, fore• Hills, on a then unfashion• this Kerzner needed finan• Kerzner agreed to merge sight and imagination able stretch of coastline at cial muscle, and at that certain of their hotel inte• which now characterise Umhlanga Rocks, north of time S.A. Breweries were rests. "Objectives," says Southern Sun's operations Durban. He decided to looking for top hotel talent Peter Bacon, Managing had their real beginnings leave his firm of accoun• and expertise to ration• Director of the Southern in the early 1960s. tants, where he had been alise and expand their own Sun Hotel Corporation Target-Innovation offered a junior part• hotel interests. It was a (Pty) Ltd, "were to estab• Sol Kerzner, then an nership, and with backing perfect match. lish a chain of hotels accountant in his 20's with from one of his previous Southern Sun began with throughout South Africa a Durban firm, was suffi• clients, he created a six hotels and 750 rooms. and develop a stronghold ciently encouraged by his launch pad for his innova• In 1982 the group operated in each sector of the mar• successes with two small tive ideas - ideas which 29 hotels with over 5 000 ket - resort and business. hotels leased by his family revolutionised the entire rooms and is set to expand Today we're the largest to buy a near derelict hotel South African hotel indus• its interests beyond the hotel group in Southern in Durban called the Astra. try and were to lead to the borders of South Africa. Africa and, financially, our He put up R2 000 of the Southern Sun empire. The group went public track record speaks for purchase price of R18 000 "Our hotels were lag• in 1979 although S.A. itself." and two years later sold it ging behind the rest of the Breweries have a 70% Revenues have rock- for R103 000. world in design and facili- stake in the equity. Pre-tax 2 Golden World of Southern Sun profits have risen from R470000 in 1969 to R39 000 000 in 1981. Left: Dining in 'Duma's The Group's average Kitchen' at the Landdrost room occupany is 79%, Hotel, Johannesburg. well ahead of the rest of the industry. Kerzner, still Below: Island paradise• as energetic and enthu• the Touessrok Hotel, siastic about the company Mauritius. as he was in 1969, attri• butes the success of the Bottom: Sun City - hotel, group to: casino and entertainment • The highest standards of complex in the heart of food, service and enter• the Pilanesberg, tainment. Bophuthatswana. • Imaginatively built hotels with unstinting at• tention to detail. • Personalised service. • And flair. The group is essentially decentralised, requiring its managers to operate their hotels as indepen• dent business units, al• though certain functions such as marketing are cen• tralised. Standards and Controls "We believe the strengths of a hotel group such as ours lie in the quality and enthusiasm of its management, and their commitment to the group's Sands Hotel at Umhlanga goals," says M.D. Peter Rocks. The hotel occupies Bacon. "We set the direc• a dominant position on the tion and priorities of the beachfront, with over 200 company annually and suites and extensive cater• closely monitor standards ing facilities.