With the Christmas weekend fast approaching, KwaZulu-Natal Transport, Community Safety and Liaison MEC, Sipho Hlomuka has urged motorists and road users to adjust their driving and be extra cautious to prevent the loss of lives. The call follows two major crashes that took place in the province, leaving 12 people dead over the weekend. The […]
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Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) Acting Group CEO Hisham Emeran has welcomed the huge demand for long-distance bus and train services as the agency gears up for holiday travel at various intermodal stations. Emeran said the high volume of passengers is an indication that holiday travel is gradually returning to pre-pandemic levels. “This […]
THE Great Zimbabwe Monuments are receiving less than 10% of foreign tourists who visit Victoria Falls, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) project manager for the site’s rehabilitation Salesio Zwawada has said. Zwawada who was addressing journalists at a recent workshop in Masvingo said UNOPS, which is currently involved in a £3 million-three year […]
Close to 500,000 local and international holidaymakers visited Durban beaches, in Kwazulu-Natal, this past weekend despite allegations that the city’s beaches are contaminated with E. coli and human waste. With the influx of visitors, the city still expects more people to flock to Durban ahead of Christmas on Sunday and New Year’s Eve. In a […]
The Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija has advised the Nigerians in the U.S. with expired passports travelling home to cross check with the airlines before travelling. Egopija gave the advice in an interview with Newsmen while reacting to the new visa policy of the Federal Government. The new visa policy […]
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania — U.N. experts say the ice cap on Africa’s biggest peak, Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, is among world-famous glaciers predicted to melt by 2050 due to climate change. Julius Keyyu of the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, who has participated in various studies on Mount Kilimanjaro, said it is true, the glacier atop the mountain […]
Prospective travellers need to use the right immigration process to travel, Mr Benja-min Woesten, Head of Ghanaian-Ger-man Centre (GGC), has stated He said irregular migration in-volved a lot of risks which needed to be avoided. Mr Woesten said this at a press soiree to interact with the media and also commemorate the five years anniversary […]
Kampala, Uganda — The Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Airlines Jenifer Bamuturaki was on Wednesday elected the President of the Africa Airlines Association (AFRAA) for 2023. She took over the presidency at the 54th AFRAA Annual General Assembly in Dakar, Senegal today 13th December 2022. She takes over from Alioune Badara Fall the CEO of […]
South Africa’s national carrier resumed flights between Johannesburg and Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls this week after nearly three years. The South African Airways (SAA) suspended flights on the route in March 2020 in efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. The decision was also attributed partly to financial challenges. The first arrival of an SAA aircraft […]
Travel/ tourism is one of the largest and strongest pillars of the modern economy, globally. In Kenya, according to the Tourism Research Institute, the sector is a major economic contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at 10.4% and directly employs 990,000 jobs (KTSA2019). The sector is also instrumental in the social-economic well being […]
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union and the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council last Friday announced in a press release a15.3-percent reduction in transport fares taking effect from today.(See story on page … ). The reduction is said to be as a result of negotiations between the government, represented by the Ministry of Transport, and […]
Cape Town — Deployment of Army at Power Stations a Sign of Greater Crisis? South African National Defence Force members have been deployed at multiple Eskom power stations, IOL reports. The soldiers have been instructed to protect four facilities – Camden, Majuba, Tutuka and Grootvlei – from vandalism and theft. This comes as the nation […]
The End of 2022, Seychelles’ Tourism Industry Recovered By 90 Percent Since the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Well Ahead of the Global Average Figure That Stands At Around 60 Percent, Said a Top Government Official On Tuesday. According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on December 11, a total of 311,108 visitors […]
Addis Abeba — Electric Vehicles (EV) are slowly gaining momentum on the roads in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Abeba, as the government exempted them from value added tax and excise tax since September, to encourage importers and local assemblers as well as improve user affordability. Yet, a new directive is on the way to regulate the […]
Drones, remote control aircraft usu-ally without human pilots, crew or passengers on board, have become very useful in today’s life as they are deployed for purposes, including delivery of medical supplies, warfare and photog-raphy. It will be recalled that the Ministry of Health, for instance, launched the Ghana Drone Delivery Service on April 24, 2019, […]
Investors and entrepreneurs must take advantage of the current economic difficulties facing Ghana to invest in the country, Managing Director and founder of RAAD Industries, Adriano Dulgher has said. He said in the midst of chal-lenges the Ghanaian economy was going through, were oppor-tunities which investors must take advantage of to diversify their investment portfolios. […]
Chinedu Eze A new report has indicated that 93 per cent of African countries have maintained or improved their visa process. Reviewing their scores last year and comparing them with what obtained this year, the report stated that relative to 2021, two-thirds of African countries have adopted more liberal visa policies compared to six years […]
New Brighton beach facilities have been left to ruin Beachgoers in Gqeberha this summer will have to wait for the municipality to find the R5-million needed to fix the filthy and ruined toilets, bathrooms and braai stands at New Brighton beach. According to the Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism website, New Brighton beach “is a large […]