President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision on Monday night to close beaches in the Eastern Cape and along the Garden Route is likely to have a devastating effect on tourism in those areas.

As it is, they were just beginning to show signs of life again after the economic devastation of the hard lockdown...

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