Simon Nare
Black tour operators have claimed that they are under siege at the Hartebeespoort Dam and have accused their counterparts of waging systematic and racist attacks to flush them out of the North West prime tourist attraction.
The operators told Inside Travel that in the past two weeks, boat clubs owned by black businesses have been torched to the ground in what they allege are racist arsonist attacks.
The latest arson attack was at Bubbles Champagne Garden along the dam’s shoreline owned by Thabiso Mathibedi who complained that this was a clear racist motivated attack to force him out of the area.
Mathibedi said this in line with threats by racist elements in the area that black business people must move “back to Soweto where they belong”.
He said black business people were not having it easy when they set up business establishments in the villages as white residents
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