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Residents say rental prices have increased drastically and accuse authorities of making the city a tourist destination at the expense of locals. (Getty Images)
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Locals drown in digital nomad wave

Hotspots around the world are struggling to strike the balance between growing their tourism industries and protecting locals’ pockets

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
The lockdown provided us with a prism through which we could look at our crazy lives and simplify them. It was a strange and special time
AMELIA BEATTIE

South Africa’s mothballed ‘supermall-ification’ sets strip malls up for success

Analysts agree that the country has enough malls and that, post-Covid, the convenience of local centres lure customers

  • Sarah Smit
  • Anathi Madubela
12 min read