Impact of illegal migration protests on SA Tourism: Minister Patricia de Lille weighs in


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Widespread protests against undocumented migrants have sparked worldwide media coverage. While demonstrations have been held in several major cities, the full impact on the country's tourism sector is not yet clear. To find out more on this, we are joined by tourism minister Patricia de Lille. For more news, visit sabcnews.c

This SABC News interview features Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille discussing t

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he potential impact of illegal migration protests on South Africa's tourism secto

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r.

Impact of Protests on Tourism: The interviewer raises concerns regarding calls

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for a boycott of a major annual conference in Cape Town due to reported hostilit

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ies against foreign nationals []. Minister de Lille responds that official statis

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tics from Stats SA show growth rather than a decline, noting over 680,000 visitor

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s from the continent in May alone, which represents a 6% increase compared to the

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previous year []. Total visitors from January to May reached over 4.7 million []

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Viewer Discussion & Comments

@Greg16350
Says the minister whose chicken wire fence ensured that foreign nationals won't find much resistance when they cross into SA illegally.
@RayMadubeko
Uuumm every politician is a liar...wow!! Ma'am 🤔🤦‍♂️🙌
@ProudlySA1
Mmmmm , how many of those leave ? Give that stats
@lawrenceletlhatlhe8525
So maybe that's y Cape town is full of "we are not going back " we just bought a Maybach " .
@ereneschwarz4548
We have not acted wisely and we will reap the fruit of this ... the Home affairs is to blame for the undocumented ' visitors' as they made it almost impossible for them to get their paper work done.l. delays and unrealistic expectations.... shame on you South Africa. Do not blame the war in Iran for all our problems..... the way we have treated peolpe from other nations IN AFRICA is shocking