COMMUNITYNEWS: Industry stalwart retires

Twelve Apostles
Hotel executive
director, Horst
Frehse (right) will
retire in December.
Following a career
in the hospitality
industry that
spanned over
40 years, he
leaves in place
a management team led
by Michael Nel, who took
over as gm when Horst
was promoted to executive
director in April 2014.
Horst has worked in leading
hotels in Hamburg, Munich,
Geneva, Namibia,
Cape Town,
Johannesburg
and Paarl. He
held managerial
positions at the
five-star Grande
Roche Hotel;
Singita in the
Kruger National
Park; Singita
Grumeti Reserves in the
Serengeti, Tanzania; and
Asara Wine Estate & Hotel
in Stellenbosch before
joining the Red Carnation
Hotel Collection
in December 2010.