Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says tourism from the United States continues to surge, with a more than 10% increase in visitors, despite persistent claims of a so-called “White Genocide” in South Africa, claims she dismissed as false and increasingly discredited.
De Lille told the Portfolio Committee on Tourism in the National Assembly on Tuesday that the number of tourists from the US had gone up and indications were that the numbers continued to surge.
She was leading her department in the committee to brief it on the preparations and participation in the hosting of the G20 tourism meetings and engagements.
De Lille told parliamentarians that the government and individual departments must up its communication game to dispel these lies of a “White Genocide”.
She also lauded some private sectors who have joined the department’s campaign to denounce the genocide lies.
“We can see that our campaigns are beginning to
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