About Indalo

Easy hospitality, your way

A locally experienced team with an international outlook, growing South African hospitality one property at a time.

Discover unlimited potential

Have the best of both worlds

A pioneering, black female-owned third-party hotel management company for South Africa, Indalo Hotels & Leisure enables hotel owners to take advantage of all the benefits that come with franchising an international hotel brand, simultaneously securing a dedicated, locally experienced management team fully aligned with their interests. In other words, the best of both worlds.

Our story

A hotel operator aligned with the owner

Indalo Hotels & Leisure is a hospitality company: a pioneering, black female-owned hospitality company that owns its own portfolio, and also operates and manages properties for third parties.

Our company’s development and character owes much to our founder, Senzo Tsabedze, whose career started out in hospitality, as a caddie; today, he owns a golf course – and he has the concession to manage the club that once refused him membership. He and his wife Thenjiwe, Afrirent Holdings’ and Indalo’s CEO, are leading South African entrepreneurs and philanthropists.

We enable hotel owners to take advantage of all the benefits that come with franchising an international hotel brand, delivered by a dedicated, locally experienced management team that is fully aligned with owners’ interests.

Our vision

Indalo Hotels & Leisure aims to become the leading third-party hotel operator across Africa, with a strong focus on human capital development and best practice around sustainability and environmental responsibility, for owners and investors using a global hotel franchise network.

Our ethos

People first. Places that last.

Human capital development and responsible, sustainable operations sit at the centre of how we run every property.

A partner on your journey: Afrirent Holdings

Indalo Hotels & Leisure was established in 2020, a subsidiary of Afrirent Holdings. Which means its origin story begins much earlier.

Started in 2003 as a small, two-truck, home-grown fleet management company, Afrirent Holdings has evolved into a world-class group of companies with impact and a footprint throughout the fleet services value chain.

With an extensive fleet of vehicles managed and heavy investment in technology, people and relationships, Afrirent’s offering has expanded into complementary services such as tracking and monitoring, tourism and automotive sales.

Afrirent has a Level 1 broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) rating.

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