Hon Chairperson, the EFF is here to reject this report. This sector still remains the highly constricted sector controlled by few white people and excludes the majority of our people. It is white people who own lodges, nature reserves and who are in control and even state-owned nature reserves. It is these people who benefit from the tourism. The Department of Tourism has failed dramatically to change a nature of tourism in this country.
Tourists still come to the same destinations controlled by the old club boys. We have not been able to diversify our tourists' attraction to the rest of the country. Tourists still comes mainly to three provinces which are Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. We have immersed
potential to diversify this sector to other provinces such as Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, for those who are interested in historical and heritage tourism. We have not been able to do so because the very nature of South African economy favours those who have accumulated property in the past.
Further, there are no consequences for those who are racist in transformation in this country. They are aided by the government in excluding black people from the industry. To be part of the ocean economy, one must have R1,5 million in his bank account. The overall black participation is at less than 48% and the black women ownership is at less than 10%. Black participants are only found in the poorest provinces which are Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng are mainly dominated by the white people. We are against the antitransformed tourism. [Time expired.]