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Look at the pictures. Which one best describes what the average tourist who comes to South Africa thinks of this country? The kid playing in the sea on Muizenberg beach? Or the cop holding shotgun shells?
If you said the shotgun shells, you would be wrong. The reporting about the Cape Town honeymoon murder notwithstanding, South Africa is still a pretty safe place for tourists. Most of the time. In fact, foreign press reports have, on the whole, been pretty balanced, saying that while South Africa may be wracked with violent crime, tourists are hardly ever the victims. Read More…
This was the scene at Lanseria Airport last Sunday after various VIPs jetted in for the World Cup final at Soccer City. Read More…
If you live anywhere near the straight line between Soccer City and Lanseria Airport, you would have felt it. The first chopper screamed overhead a little after midnight in a roar of turbines, thudding rotors and the pulsing glow of red running lights fading away to the north. Read More…
So the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) has said it will set aside R400 000 as a goodwill gesture to say sorry for the flights that were turned back from Durban on Wednesday night, causing some 750 football fans to miss the semi-final between Spain and Germany.
One wonders how the largesse will be doled out. Shared equally among the estimated 750 fans, that’s R533 each. Read More…
The Kruger National Park is throwing its full weight behind our national squad with a promise of a free weekend in the park for all the players and their families if the team makes it through to the next round. Read More…
South African regional and feeder airline SA Express is taking steps to ensure that it does not get splattered with any mud that may or may not fly when the Competition Commission begins its inquiry into the allegations that local airlines are colluding over ticket prices during the Fifa World Cup tournament in June. Read More…
It’s no secret that a lot of people in South Africa are hoping to milk the Fifa World Cup tournament in June by jacking up their prices. From householders looking to rent out their homes at extortionate rates to guesthouse owners, restraurants and airlines (the latter are now to be probed by the Competition Commission), a lot of people involved in the local tourism industry are expecting a fat payday come June.
In short, it’s revolting. Read More…
This was the scene that greeted us at OR Tambo Airport – a heaving scrum of tired and emotional, dazed, lost and confused travellers, milling around like cattle on an empty feedlot. Read More…
