Recent attacks on international and domestic tourists and diplomats have forced the government into overdrive in an effort to secure the country’s image as a safe place to visit. The result is Tuesday’s launch of a pilot tourist safety monitor project. Unemployed youth will be trained to provide advice to tourists visiting SA’s must-see places. The project is to be unveiled in Soweto by the national and Gauteng tourism departments. Two hundred safety monitors will take up their posts at Gauteng’s tourist hotspots‚ including Soweto and OR Tambo International Airport. The monitors will eventually form part of more than 2‚000 who will be stationed around the country’s tourist attractions. OR Tambo International has become infamous after a series of incidents in which heavily armed robbers followed and attacked tourists. According to the Tourism Business Council of SA‚ 26 armed robberies involving tourists have been committed in SA between January and September. Nineteen of the robberie...
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