ROB ROSE: End in sight to beach and booze ban — but it’ll be too late for some
Perhaps it is little surprise that SA has now been ranked the second-worst country to live in during the pandemic
01 February 2021 - 08:00
While insiders say that President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to reopen beaches and allow alcohol to be sold again in the next few days, it may not be in time to save many tourism companies.
“They’ve closed the beach, so some days we just come here and get maybe R20, just for survival. It very difficult here, because of [the] lockdown,” one street vendor, Delyn Mera, told news channel Al Jazeera, which broadcast a profile of SA’s crumbling tourism industry over the weekend...
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