Tag Archives: Derek Hanekom

How Derek Hanekom could make this a game-changing Indaba

Posted on May 8, 2015 by admin

Dear Derek, The Tourism Indaba which opens in Durban tomorrow will be your first as Minister of Tourism.  You could make it a game-changing Indaba if you announced your intention to introduce a Tourism Charter, which the mayors of all … Continue reading →

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Where municipalities get it so badly wrong

Posted on May 5, 2015 by admin

In 2012, I interviewed the local manager of Stanford, part of the Overstrand (Hermanus) municipality.  I never published the interview because it was such an embarrassment.  I did share the content with Overstrand’s mayor — who just sat with her … Continue reading →

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This is Criminal Incompetence, Pravin Gordhan: do something!

Posted on April 11, 2015 by admin

  There are hundreds of millions of Rands of foreign donor funding in these projects.  It should be an embarrassment to every South African. Dear Pravin Gordhan, please prohibit all Eastern Cape local government institutions from receiving any further foreign … Continue reading →

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