This past week parliament’s research unit revealed, in a presentation to the portfolio committee on tourism, damning revelations regarding President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2019 state of the nation address promise of 21-million tourists by 2030.

The presentation demonstrated that the president’s target is unrealistic, and that for this target to be met SA would have to grow its economy by 6% compounded annually. Our economic growth is nowhere near that...

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