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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)
AIRBNB

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
In early February, AfriForum, together with several other organisations, businesses and community members, removed more than 1 623 tonnes of water lettuce from the Vaal River. Photo: AfriForum
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Vaal River residents say water lettuce is ‘national crisis’

If allowed to pass the Vaal River Barrage, the plant has access to a journey of about 1 000km of the middle and lower Vaal river, the Bloemhof Dam and then into the Orange river

  • Sheree Bega
11 min read
After the stall during 2020’s pandemic, travellers have come storming back exponentially each year. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)
COVID 19

​​Shrewd management of future Covid waves is key to the tourism industry’s recovery

Stakeholders are cautiously optimistic about 2022, citing relaxed restrictions and discussions with the government as reasons for hope.

  • Sarah Smit
  • Anathi Madubela
6 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
ALCOHOL BAN

Covid caution infects investors

The pandemic has forced some companies to cancel or pause capital expenditure, jeopardising long-term economic growth

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read