He also gained valuable experience at privately owned hotels such as the Pepper Club Hotel in Cape Town where he was General Manager, and The Cross Point Trading where he served as Tourism CEO for Bafokeng.

He left Sun International for a while to further his experience at international brands such as Starwood, working as Director of Rooms at the Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria, and the General Manager of the Intercontinental Sandton Towers.

Two years after graduating, Sun International offered him the opportunity to attend the Executive Management Certificate programme at the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town.ĭuring his time at Sun International, Monsho steadily climbed the corporate ladder from Front Office Manager at The Wild Coast Sun to Operations Manager at Carnival City Casino, Rooms Division Manager at The Palace of The Lost City, and finally General Manager of the Cabanas Hotel. Six years after joining Sun City Josiah was selected for a scholarship to study for a three-year diploma in Hotel Management. His drive and hard work was soon noticed and rewarded. Ambitious but without resources to study further, he set about getting a job after matriculating from Bafokeng High School in 1986.

Having no particular dream of working in the hospitality industry, Montsho developed a passion for hospitality when he understood the vast career choices and opportunities that it offers.īorn in the Sowetan township of Diepkloof in 1967, by the time he was 12 his family had relocated to Bafokeng’s Phokeng Village in Rustenburg. Josiah Elias Montsho has come full circle with his appointment as General Manager at Sun City’s flagship Palace of the Lost City hotel (01st December 2019).Īt the tender age of 19, nothing about Josiah’s first job as a Sun City porter could have prepared him for the direction his life would take, “I thought the job was going to help me to save money to study further, but it was the start of a journey to greatness.” Josiah Montsho’s stellar rise to success - Sun City Palace Hotel General Manager

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