Inyati Private Game Lodge launches staff share scheme

Inyati Private Game Lodge has issued over 12 000 phantom shares to its employees in a bid to reward staff loyalty and retain employee talent. The value of these shares is more than R3,6 million and equivalent to 5% of the company. Read more >>

African Pride 15 On Orange Hotel gets R25 million revamp

African Pride 15 on Orange Hotel is the latest Protea Hospitality Group property in Cape Town to receive a multi-million rand capital cash injection that will see a new conference centre built and various facilities at the superior deluxe hotel upgraded. Read more >>

Singapore sees SA as investor-friendly destination

Singaporeans are seriously considering the Western Cape as a potential business hub and foothold into the rest of Africa. This was one of the key messages emerging from a meeting between a Western Cape economic development and tourism delegation and their counterparts in the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry held in Singapore recently. Read more >>

Gooderson lifts revenue from local focus

The Gooderson Leisure Group has lifted its revenue by 10% to R49,5-million despite the tough conditions in the hospitality and tourism sectors that has seen a slump in bookings for many hotel groups, coupled with a decrease in the number of tourists coming to South Africa. Read more >>

Kotze-Nhlapo to head SA Tourism's Convention Bureau

SA Tourism has appointed Amanda Kotze-Nhlapo as executive manager of its newly-established National Conventions Bureau. Kotze-Nhlapo was previously head of the Conventions Bureau and Events at Cape Town Routes Unlimited. Read more >>

Airbus says airlines in SA must spend US$29-billion

Airlines operating in South Africa will need to buy about 180 new planes by 2030, at an estimated cost of US$29-billion, to meet the growing demand for air travel from passengers according to Airbus. Read more >>

Robben Island ferries outsourced

The Robben Island Museum, embarrassed by consistent breakdowns of its ferry service, have handed the responsibility to a private company that has been tasked with providing a reliable service that will allow tourists to visit the heritage site. Read more >>

Mixed reaction to Zuma's Padayachie move

[Duncan McLeod & Craig Wilson] President Jacob Zuma's decision to redeploy communications minister Roy Padayachie and his deputy, Obed Bapela, has drawn mixed reaction from the information and communications technology industry, with one analyst saying he was "stunned" by the move and that it would delay several important projects, including the migration to digital terrestrial television. Read more >>

SABC makes or breaks communications ministers

[Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk] When the new communications minister was shifted out of her role as deputy minister of the department last year and into the presidency, I wondered if she breathed a huge sigh of relief. And I wonder now whether she is really as happy as she seems about going back, in spite of being promoted to full minister? Read more >>

Wal-Mart hearings focus on efficiencies, labour

[Paul Vecchiatto] The Competition Appeals court hearings into the Wal-Mart/Massmart merger turned mainly around labour and economic efficiency issues that the giant US retailer could bring into the local market. Read more >>

"Skeem" gets top award for Greene

Cape Town movie director Tim Greene has scooped the Audience Choice award for "Skeem" at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, according to Channel24 and Sowetan Live. "Skeem" is a comedy adventure story about a group of small-time crooks and greedy holiday-makers who scheme to get their hands of a box of cash at a run-down resort. Read more >>

It'll be all white on the night

[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] ... And on the day, for that matter too... Here's a really cool idea - pardon the pun - for a breakaway with a real difference... Head due South to where the penguin is King, well, Emperor*, actually, and there's ice as far as you can see... It's a life-changing experience. Read more >>