Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* After a meeting yesterday about the controversial new Immigration Regulations, between Minister of Tourism Derek Hanekom and Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba, they have announced that some of the onerous requirements will be made less stringent for tourism purposes, in preventing them from becoming an ‘administrative nightmare, causing foreigners to go elsewhere’! The Department of Home Affairs has agreed to allow any equivalent document to an unabridged birth certificate for children from the country of origin. More centres to issue biometric visas to South Africa will be opened in India and China, where there are only two per country. One wonders why the Ministers took more than a month to meet, and allowed so much damage to be caused to our country’s Tourism industry!
* Stellenbosch 360, the town’s tourism promotion agency, is determined to make every day a ‘Mandela Day‘, and assisted ‘boutique impact investment company‘ Heart Capital in its Foodpods Project in the Kayamandi township. The project encourages locals to grow vegetables. Stellenbosch 360 would like Stellenbosch residents to ‘live a life of 67 minutes as opposed to making it a yearly activity’. (received via media release from Random Hat Communications) Continue reading →