ANDILE NTINGI: Neglected Wild Coast has the potential to dazzle
A lack of development means the area has failed to capitalise on its potential for tourism and agriculture
28 April 2020 - 14:02
A grumpy old man once described the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape as a neglected wife whose beauty is not being appreciated by her husband.
This is an apt deconstruction of the extent of the neglect of the tourism potential in the eastern part of the province by its administrators, whose failure to lay out tarred roads and latest-generation telecommunications networks diminished the attractiveness of the scenic coastline to tourists long before tourism was shut down due to the Covid-19 outbreak...
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