OPINION: We have recently launched the “My Heritage My City Campaign”, a noble initiative that seeks to encourage all South Africans to rediscover Durban. We are aggressively promoting quite a number of tourist attractions that our tourists have never explored, writes Mxolisi Kaunda.
As we have wrapped up September, the “Tourism Month”, I thought it would be very remiss of me as the mayor of the eThekwini Municipality not to extend my gratitude to South Africans who never miss an opportunity to visit our city.
We have worked very hard to ensure that townships also have a share of the tourism pie. Max’s Lifestyle, Eyadini, Mashamplane’s Lounge, Blekes and many others are a living testimony to our efforts to grow township tourism. These eateries are livelihoods of many families in the townships where they are situated.
During the Easter holidays the number of tourists coming to our city soared. This resulted in a direct spend of over R1.5 billion, while more than R400 million was spent during the hard lockdown during the same period. Close to 10 000 job opportunities were created, while only 1 500 employment opportunities were created during a similar period.
We are excited about adding to our fold another soccer team that is playing in the Premier Soccer League. The Royal AM is going to be based in Durban alongside Golden Arrows and Amazulu FC.
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