If no action is taken forthwith, tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane will have to live with the fact that she — almost single-handedly — destroyed SA’s tourism industry.
Contributing close to 9% of GDP and 1.5-million direct and indirect jobs, one would assume this industry is sufficiently valuable to the government to allocate a minister who knows at least a little about business, even if she knows nothing about tourism. Yet four months into Covid-19 every day presents a new opportunity for Kubayi-Ngubane to show that she has no understanding whatsoever of how businesses function, let alone how the tourism value chain works...
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