Promoting road safety, motivating pupils and showcasing heritage
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By: Unathi Kondile
Mbizana, Eastern Cape - We get to the late Sol Kerznerâs sprawling 700-hectare Wild Coast Sun in Mbizana just after 10pm on Wednesday. Casino closing. Restaurants closed. A few patrons quaff their last drinks at the bar as we check-in. Quite a number of familiar faces perambulate up and down the lobby. Radio personalities, actors and influencers all looking glam doing nothing.
We missed the gala dinner and Minister of Tourism Mmamokolo Kubayi-Ngubaneâs keynote address.
A few hours later I am standing in a breakfast queue, similar to those you see outside Post Offices lately. It is terrible what Covid-19 protocols have done to hotel breakfast buffets. You wait and wait.
By Mduduzi Malinga
Brand South Africa partnered with the Siyavuya Foundation and Eastern Cape Tourism, for the third rendition of the annual SUV Challenge from 3 to 7 March 2021, in the Eastern Cape. The SUV Challenge seeks to promote road safety, tourism and empower rural communities in the province.
This year the challenge kicked off in Wild Coast Sun, to Kokstad, Msikaba Bridge, and went to Nkantolo Village in Mbizana Local Municipality, making a stop at Mqhekezweni Great Place in King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, East London, and concluded at Baviaanskloof in the Sarah Baartman District.