City Lodge Hotel Group (CLHG) has appointed Anneke Pienaar as General Manager of City Lodge Hotel Maputo in Mozambique. She was most recently GM of City Lodge Hotel Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Pienaar started her career in the hotel industry as a receptionist at the Southern Sun Holiday Inn Garden Court Airport in 1999, having earned a national diploma in Hospitality Management the year before. She joined CLHG as Junior Assistant Manager of Town Lodge Nelspruit (now Mbombela) in 2006.

Her career trajectory included positions as Senior Assistant Manager of Town Lodge Menlo Park in 2008, General Manager of Road Lodge Germiston in 2009 and General Manager of Road Lodge Mbombela in 2011.