An organisation that represents businesses in the tourism sector fears that the crimes against foreign visitors in SA will dent efforts to create jobs and to boost the industry’s contribution to GDP.

Attacks on tourists at Cape Town’s popular Table Mountain National Park have left government and tourism authorities scrambling for solutions as fears grow that crime is worsening. The situation is hurting the tourism industry, one of the few sectors identified as having the potential to pull SA out of the economic malaise it is in...

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