The context of what is happening in the country is just as important. The country is on a downward spiral and isolating expenditure in one sector makes little sense. Mr Khumalo must do and spend money allocated to his organization but the timing of this deal is not great. Pity also to learn that the acting CFO has interests in a company earmarked to make R31 million from this deal. This deal tastes like the R22 million flag saga, the idea is admirable but ill timed for a country that can’t keep lights on. This organization also has too many actors in the executive….Acting CEO, acting CFO, the numbers chiskop also acting….🚩🚩🚩🚩
Now that's how government is suppose to respond to the public. I am actually proud of The South African Tourism. Feasibility of this return is debatable but a plan nonetheless. How many of our government structures tend to share plans, let alone DEFEND THEM?
I know nothing about what he is speaking about. He is confident in what he is saying. The media is the one that misleads us by writing stories to arouse our emotions.
Themba Khumalo.........how does one best describe him? It's a tough question to answer, but the words narcissistic, air-head and driveller readily come to mind! Boy, do I pity his congregants. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
Fix the crime first and then stop the killing of innocent tourist who visits SA. What tourism are you lecturing when your security infrastructure is worst than DRC CONGO .
Sorry Sir, I'm definitely not convinced on your statement. One cannot shy away from the fact that more departments could do with that money sent overseas to a football club that ordinary South Africans wouldn't realize the impact of the so called investment
I'm trying to make sense of the genesis of this deal without success. How do we seek audience to nations that despise Afrikans. That has taken out mother Afrika which made them who they're today. Europeans need us, we don't need them.
@@jameswright9513 Listen is first before you comments unless you don't understand how department works this 21 century this are done according to the influence that money will come back to help the economy we can't fail all the department because of Eskom which we don't pay their electricity that money will like the lost money because it won't come it's better where they put it and let's fix Eskom buy starting to pay then we will have the right to complain if we also play our part but for we are the part of Eskom problems.
@@tebogomarakalla6487 this guy shouting at d media for leaking ter dodgy deal..he left more questions than answers. We're did he get his figures from? Ppl operating bnb and tours need money..the tourism sector in sa need money..we are not ruwanda who had genoside to change our image.. then we have Tottenham who were organizing a presser for Friday to announce d deal while he tells us that sisulu knew nothing..how is that possible? Even the president is against d deal, yet this guy seems to think he is doing d right thing..
@@dilochetty9332 The president is disgraced by the Phalaphala Forex saga. Daily Maverick leaked the document before it was finalized. Argue the facts, not the man. Tourism is a private sector-ran business in SA. Government’s responsibility is to create conducive environment. The R1b intends to do just that. How you miss this obvious point is beyond me! Just because SA is not at war, means we should not spend a dime in military, doe t it? Is this your argument? I’d also shout if I have to deal with a population that treats the media as the alpha and omega in this country. Just because the Daily Maverick said so, it must be true. When presented with an alternative view, you develop dissonance!
@@dilochetty9332 Do you know how much the State spends on Tourism-inspired companies annually in the form of business grants, tax concessions, etc? Like I said, argue the facts not the man.
How can they spend this money to get more tourists when crime is rife and not safe for tourists, justification excuses very dissengenious and a stupid reasoning behind it, lost the plot,
Are we saying tourism must stop bcos we have problems? Are saying the money budgeted for tourism must be given to department of energy or transport and infrastructure...are saying we no longer need tourists in S.A until we solve our problems...so everything else must pause bcos we have problems...when are we not gonna have problems...???i say kudos to the S.A tourism...i pray that the deal goes through....
@@thulanelindazaukana4643 u hope the deal goes through. 😂😂😂😂. Ur highly educated tourism CEO is guaranteeing that South Africa will gain an income of R88 billion through this investment.😂😂😂😂. Come on let's get real man. Ur CEO must stop with his lies it's about kicks backs. Tourism minister will receive huge financial kick if this deal goes through. Ur BEE is killing South Africa. Look @ all our state own entities. It has been destroyed because BEE. We are heading in direction of Zimbabwe.
Unfortunately Mr Khumalo...i understand you...but few people understand because many people are clueless about strategy...you are spot on...but unfortunately i am just going to be called a clever black...
Are we saying tourism must stop bcos we have problems? Are saying the money budgeted for tourism must be given to department of energy or transport and infrastructure...are saying we no longer need tourists in S.A until we solve our problems...so everything else must pause bcos we have problems...when are we not gonna have problems...???i say kudos to the S.A tourism...i pray that the deal goes through....
Tourism budget is neccessary but this is unsustanable missapropriation of fundS. You can do far much better sustainable spending on local international influencers with targeted audiences whose hearts are already leaning to wards SOUTH AFRICA thus building two industries while creating opportunities for SOUTH AFRICANS. With bad PR from local and international media SOUTH AFRICA needs a STRONG TARGETED PR type of marketing.
The Auditor General says to us that in Tshwane we have an issue of R30 Billion that cannot be accounted for by the DA-led administration, yes not R30 Million, but R30 Billion. Then we also have a National Department of Tourism saying to us that it is thinking of dedicating a figure of R1 Billion towards boosting the tourism industry, of course with an expectation of making a profit from the deal. Bizarre enough the first story that pertains to the R30 Billion doesn't make any news, neither does it attract front pages of our newspapers, contrary to the second story that continues to make headlines so much that even Johan Rupert also had his views to share. Some went to the length of preposterously suggesting that we could have used the R1 Billion to resolve Eskom predicaments, but what about the R30 Billion? We are rapidly degenerating into a very strange society.
All products are known throughout the world, they practically sell themselves yet they market their products. Do they not. Another question if South Africa is so well known why are we not in the top 5? Say we fix our problems, will we not need marketing to attract tourists a d travellers?
Let us get past this thing of being impressed by the command of the English language. With all that has been said by the CEO, there still is no explanation as to why Tottenham Hotspur and not Westham for example, why a billion rand and not R50 million, wat he has done is to flood the media with additional out of context information. Additionally, we clearly don't agree and should count for something. Wat are other countries spending to achieve the same objectives. The city of cape Town for instance attracts visitors from far and wide without this type of reckless spending.
how can the country spend so much money now when we're in a state of poverty why not spend that x amount of money on the SA citizens by creating jobs and infrastructure within SA you big heads of state who not only nive in wealth but more so glamorous lives should think 1st : of your country 2nd : how poeple in SA lives 3rd: make sure SA is sort after before forking out money for budgets that's not there this is upsurd poeple in SA see u for who you are and not what you spend and I'm sure this I an ANC approved nonsense spending money which they know if or when the next government takes over they'll be in a mess 🤦♂️
The initiative might be right but the timing is absolutely wrong. No and I mean no sane tourer will want to visit a dysfunctional country like this... never. My take is that let the acting Ceo put a pin 📍 on this project and we'll resume with it when some of our departments are functional ie Eskom and others of course
@@angelodoubel9653 ...he was a Pastor in that Church...he was part of the Elliott resurrection miracle...no pun intended!!...if truth be told...am not against any person as a Christian myself...
For once we have someone bold and willing to face the public but again is it not a thing to direct funds to more important things in this case security, hire more police and bring in private security in our City, to be honest if you fix issue of crime in SA then you wouldn't need to spend billions on tourism, most people love SA but the crime makes it unattractive
The danger of 2 minutes snippets on social is that they are designed to say public opinion to a certain narrative. I have just watched the briefing and Mtungwa is making sense. Mr. Khumalo knows his story and he is very clear. The timing is off granted, but then again when will it be the right time? Let all departments adhere to their mandates.
No Tourist wants to visit a country where the hotel they are staying in lights are OFF, and there is no water to take a shower. [Hello Johannesburg suffering from darkness and no water for the past 5 days...] If you have a SAFE destination with all services the tourists will come. Maybe share some money with SAP to make the country secure and fix the services electricity and water!! No tourists will come to visit dangerous country that has no water..... This is just an example of how disconnected these Ministers and their departments are from reality. Get this country SAFE so the foreign embassies tell their citizens it is safe to visit South Africa. [Remember US tourist killed near Kruger in December 2022] This smooth explanation on why you want to spend one Billion to make hopefully 88 billion fails to address the fundamental issues of SAFETY, and Services..... South Africa it the 5th MOST dangerous Tourist destination in the world.... what about that??? Fix you house and the tourists will come.... no smart talking will make them feel safe.
The prices of accommodation goes up because electricity is worth caviar and inflation is ruining your population. You want to be a cheap paradise? Cool, make sure it is a paradise.
This will make people build more hotels and during construction people will be employed when the hotels are functioning people are employed restaurants are built people hired I appreciate what the tourism board they care about the country they want to see South Africa move forward
My view is that the department must sell same marketing strategy to workers, subsidise them to travel the country and SADC Nations. Every year, there are cruise ships to Maputo and many of SAns flock into it. Drakensberg Mountains and Namibia is thee most admired destinations today. Not forgetting Metsi a Tunya Falls (victoria falls) in Zim. Will send idea to the Minister.
People are just frustrated by the load shedding but unfortunately they are doing their job which market South African tourism whether there is crime or no crime , load shedding or no load shedding. Examples for people " thailand - leicester city" "Rwanda - Arsenal " Mancity - Abu Dhabi
Why are you having a conversation? Why did you not talk to the NFL, Rihanna was amazing at half time for super bowl Sunday. It's too much, CUT YOUR BUDGET, WE DON'T NEED ADVERTISING, WE NEED INFRASTUCTURE. SACRIFICE YOUR SALARY LIKE THE REST OF US. OR LOWER TAXES, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
Thanks for your resume, so you should know better this idea is absolutely terrible, perhaps you should have asked the country perhaps you should developed employment in the industry now tourism falls flat on it's face, yes, you all over thinking it. They could use that money to develop tourism in each province, each province has its own attractions, now in one amount spent on football team, back to the drawing board, once again its about egos and arrogance, sa tourism hits a roadblock
We need tourists in this country I agree that we should market our country and that includes spending money. I am cautious of spending 1 billion rand and again I am also cautious to criticize (arm chair). I support transparency but again we should give professionals to perform their duties without hindrance. Let everyone be free to perform free as long as the is no corruption.
@@andrewsidelo8221 I said the following and I quote "...comes across as arrogant." You are packaging your question incorrectly because the observation I had made is not meant to be conclusive.Your question assumes it is.
@@andrewsidelo8221@ Andrew Sidelo I guess I am now vindicated. The perception I held was verified by the speaker himself resulting in him having proffered an apology
YES, It makes sense... NON-sense articulate NON-sence thats what he was employed for, an accent to throw people off by articuating nonsence. If you understood marketing you would understand that South Africa needs an effective PR and Sales based marketing, you would also understad that currently, targeted digital marketing is the most EFFECTIVE type of marketing. Put out that Billion towards South African influencers and see 1000 times R.O.I. while building a completely different industry (digital marketing) at the same time creating 100 000 new jobs and careers while still bringing in foreign currency solving Many South African socio economic challenges. SPEND MONEY ON LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS. A slave mind belives money given to the massa can never go wrong. Infact a slave is designed to enrich the master, speak like the master and twang like the master.
500,000 people from England visit South Africa every year. USA doesn't follow English Premier league football. According to his linkedIn profile, he studied BA Law then ⇒ Masters in Marketing.
@United Report heres the advertising about south africa .. if you're from the US: we have the big 5 game animals.. come and see for yourself. bring bullet proof vest.
No real facts to bolster a weak, and highly suspect, project. It is a GIVEN that tourism makes a huge contribution to employment growth, economic growth and more. But, you can fund TEN English soccer teams, if you do not fix the fundamentals such as containing rampant crime (we are a very, very violent country as the latest statistics show), returning Eskom to a fully functional utility, repairing our infrastructural deficiencies, unless we do this, the BEST you will do is the historical high and not more. And, believe me, seeing teams play in Emirates or Etihad branded gear does not induce me to fly with those airlines. I seek the best price, the most bang for my buck. As a tourist destination, right now, South Africa does not tick the boxes.
This guy is a lawyer, umashaya. Tourism budget is neccessary but this is unsustanable missapropriation of fundS. You can do far much better sustainable spending on local international influencers with targeted audiences whose hearts are already leaning to wards SOUTH AFRICA thus building two industries while creating opportunities for SOUTH AFRICANS. With bad PR from local and international media SOUTH AFRICA needs a STRONG TARGETED PR type of marketing.
If I was the President of South Africa, I would tell the tourism board that they must move forward with the implementation of the strategy but, they must use their retirement savings to finance the strategy. When the strategy becomes successful, the state will compensate them for all the money which they have spent on the strategy.
Please don’t back down do your job this will bring back jobs to South Africa forget about the people who criticize but have no solutions to the problems
When I see "visit Rwanda" on the Arsenal fc shirt I am not persuaded to do that. Yet I can afford to. Instead I've traveled to other destinations..yet strangely, this concept is presented to be the one genius solution to tourism marketing. Khumalo and board are gambling here. The plan is bury the gamble in business detail. When the fact is South African international appeal does not evaporate if we scrap this.
Fix the crime first and then stop the killing of innocent tourist who visits SA. What tourism are you lecturing when your security infrastructure is worst than DRC CONGO .
He is right in terms of what he needs to do with the budget allocated to his portfolio. The question is why does so much of our budget go to such activities when the country has more pressing needs like stable electricity supply. Whats the use of getting potential investors when we cant even keep the lights on for a full day in 2023? These questions must go to the treasury department and finance minister.
Because this initiative will bring the return unlike the money that will be given to Eskom and end up not paid back because we are not willing to pay for anything in this country at least tourists pay for their hotels and travelling around the country and the country gets something from them we are the part of the Eskom problems.
Thabiso...Eskom is under another portfolio...departments are separate entities with different budgets...legally...please guys...Eskom and Tourism are different portfolios...
Give this man a Bells!!! However how will it profit the tourist to see the country in the dark and without water, through the country filled with potholes.....clearly the departments r not talking to each other, no synergy....the timing is completely off! Can he be the minister of water and energy!!!
The context of what is happening in the country is just as important. The country is on a downward spiral and isolating expenditure in one sector makes little sense. Mr Khumalo must do and spend money allocated to his organization but the timing of this deal is not great. Pity also to learn that the acting CFO has interests in a company earmarked to make R31 million from this deal.
This deal tastes like the R22 million flag saga, the idea is admirable but ill timed for a country that can’t keep lights on. This organization also has too many actors in the executive….Acting CEO, acting CFO, the numbers chiskop also acting….🚩🚩🚩🚩
My sense too Lolo.
Now that's how government is suppose to respond to the public. I am actually proud of The South African Tourism. Feasibility of this return is debatable but a plan nonetheless. How many of our government structures tend to share plans, let alone DEFEND THEM?
I know nothing about what he is speaking about. He is confident in what he is saying. The media is the one that misleads us by writing stories to arouse our emotions.
Why did Daily Maverick tie Mam Lindiwe Sisulu here? Do they think these people can be easily manipulated.
Themba Khumalo.........how does one best describe him? It's a tough question to answer, but the words narcissistic, air-head and driveller readily come to mind! Boy, do I pity his congregants. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
He speaks so well, as well as he did in Alleluia ministries...
I remember during lockdown the hospitality sector was crying for a meeting with the ministry. Their cries fell on deaf ears
Fix the crime first and then stop the killing of innocent tourist who visits SA. What tourism are you lecturing when your security infrastructure is worst than DRC CONGO .
hehe you are talking too the Majority,Your audience don'
t understand sir
Of all the teams to support, Tottenham?! What a disgrace 🤣
Clearly u were not listening to the man. It is not about team X or Y. It is about the audience it captures
So you chose willfull ignorance
Try to outsmart other people. Spending 38% of your budget on a single deal explains why 3 board members have resigned.
Resigned, just perhaps, because they were the moles who were leaking info to the press
Maybe they are not clear enough on how these things work.
And remaining looters certainly didn't like it because media will scrutinise the deal and it will end up being known by the public.
@@musandasikhwivhilu they are not stupid enough to accept deception.
Throwing large sums of money at problems does not compensate for lack of vision and strategy.
Sorry Sir, I'm definitely not convinced on your statement. One cannot shy away from the fact that more departments could do with that money sent overseas to a football club that ordinary South Africans wouldn't realize the impact of the so called investment
I'm trying to make sense of the genesis of this deal without success. How do we seek audience to nations that despise Afrikans. That has taken out mother Afrika which made them who they're today.
Europeans need us, we don't need them.
You're FIRED!
NO NO NO 🙈🙈🙈🤡🤡🤡Use that money to solve Escom’s problems.
Tourism department!!!
@@mfundodlamini1723 So what??Where will they get the money from??Tax payers.!!!Common clowns 🤡🤡🤡
Ask the right department for that. It's not their mandate to fix Eskom.
@@nkululekoshezi6300 It’s not the department that can fix Escom but the money can help solving problems.IF Allocate correctly.
@@jameswright9513 Listen is first before you comments unless you don't understand how department works this 21 century this are done according to the influence that money will come back to help the economy we can't fail all the department because of Eskom which we don't pay their electricity that money will like the lost money because it won't come it's better where they put it and let's fix Eskom buy starting to pay then we will have the right to complain if we also play our part but for we are the part of Eskom problems.
Refreshing to hear a competent govt official articulating their position with so much clarity.
U mus be crazy
@@dilochetty9332 I’d say start by typing a proper sentence.
@@tebogomarakalla6487 this guy shouting at d media for leaking ter dodgy deal..he left more questions than answers. We're did he get his figures from? Ppl operating bnb and tours need money..the tourism sector in sa need money..we are not ruwanda who had genoside to change our image.. then we have Tottenham who were organizing a presser for Friday to announce d deal while he tells us that sisulu knew nothing..how is that possible? Even the president is against d deal, yet this guy seems to think he is doing d right thing..
@@dilochetty9332 The president is disgraced by the Phalaphala Forex saga. Daily Maverick leaked the document before it was finalized. Argue the facts, not the man. Tourism is a private sector-ran business in SA. Government’s responsibility is to create conducive environment. The R1b intends to do just that. How you miss this obvious point is beyond me!
Just because SA is not at war, means we should not spend a dime in military, doe t it? Is this your argument?
I’d also shout if I have to deal with a population that treats the media as the alpha and omega in this country. Just because the Daily Maverick said so, it must be true. When presented with an alternative view, you develop dissonance!
@@dilochetty9332 Do you know how much the State spends on Tourism-inspired companies annually in the form of business grants, tax concessions, etc? Like I said, argue the facts not the man.
How can they spend this money to get more tourists when crime is rife and not safe for tourists, justification excuses very dissengenious and a stupid reasoning behind it, lost the plot,
Tourism is the mandate of the Department not Policing
I agree
Are we saying tourism must stop bcos we have problems? Are saying the money budgeted for tourism must be given to department of energy or transport and infrastructure...are saying we no longer need tourists in S.A until we solve our problems...so everything else must pause bcos we have problems...when are we not gonna have problems...???i say kudos to the S.A tourism...i pray that the deal goes through....
@@thulanelindazaukana4643 u hope the deal goes through. 😂😂😂😂. Ur highly educated tourism CEO is guaranteeing that South Africa will gain an income of R88 billion through this investment.😂😂😂😂. Come on let's get real man. Ur CEO must stop with his lies it's about kicks backs. Tourism minister will receive huge financial kick if this deal goes through. Ur BEE is killing South Africa. Look @ all our state own entities. It has been destroyed because BEE. We are heading in direction of Zimbabwe.
@@thulanelindazaukana4643 the country is screwed
Unfortunately Mr Khumalo...i understand you...but few people understand because many people are clueless about strategy...you are spot on...but unfortunately i am just going to be called a clever black...
Wow. They responded swiftly and comprehensively. Unlike other departments that are more significant. Applauds
Still does not legitimise their silly idea.
Are we saying tourism must stop bcos we have problems? Are saying the money budgeted for tourism must be given to department of energy or transport and infrastructure...are saying we no longer need tourists in S.A until we solve our problems...so everything else must pause bcos we have problems...when are we not gonna have problems...???i say kudos to the S.A tourism...i pray that the deal goes through....
Tourism budget is neccessary but this is unsustanable missapropriation of fundS. You can do far much better sustainable spending on local international influencers with targeted audiences whose hearts are already leaning to wards SOUTH AFRICA thus building two industries while creating opportunities for SOUTH AFRICANS.
With bad PR from local and international media SOUTH AFRICA needs a STRONG TARGETED PR type of marketing.
The Auditor General says to us that in Tshwane we have an issue of R30 Billion that cannot be accounted for by the DA-led administration, yes not R30 Million, but R30 Billion. Then we also have a National Department of Tourism saying to us that it is thinking of dedicating a figure of R1 Billion towards boosting the tourism industry, of course with an expectation of making a profit from the deal. Bizarre enough the first story that pertains to the R30 Billion doesn't make any news, neither does it attract front pages of our newspapers, contrary to the second story that continues to make headlines so much that even Johan Rupert also had his views to share. Some went to the length of preposterously suggesting that we could have used the R1 Billion to resolve Eskom predicaments, but what about the R30 Billion? We are rapidly degenerating into a very strange society.
As if South Africa isn't know for Tourism, pretending that this will help. How many people have gone to Rwanda from Arsenals sponsorship. Joke tings.
All products are known throughout the world, they practically sell themselves yet they market their products. Do they not. Another question if South Africa is so well known why are we not in the top 5?
Say we fix our problems, will we not need marketing to attract tourists a d travellers?
This one and his model c english
you can talk and try to make sense that was just lwabish or idiotic. we are not fulls
Let us get past this thing of being impressed by the command of the English language. With all that has been said by the CEO, there still is no explanation as to why Tottenham Hotspur and not Westham for example, why a billion rand and not R50 million, wat he has done is to flood the media with additional out of context information. Additionally, we clearly don't agree and should count for something. Wat are other countries spending to achieve the same objectives. The city of cape Town for instance attracts visitors from far and wide without this type of reckless spending.
Abakuzwa coz u make sense ONE BILLION is a thumb suck figure.
how can the country spend so much money now when we're in a state of poverty why not spend that x amount of money on the SA citizens by creating jobs and infrastructure within SA you big heads of state who not only nive in wealth but more so glamorous lives should think
1st : of your country
2nd : how poeple in SA lives
3rd: make sure SA is sort after before forking out money for budgets that's not there
this is upsurd
poeple in SA see u for who you are and not what you spend and I'm sure this I an ANC approved nonsense spending money which they know if or when the next government takes over they'll be in a mess 🤦♂️
So everybody is acting? This sounds like Hollywood
The initiative might be right but the timing is absolutely wrong. No and I mean no sane tourer will want to visit a dysfunctional country like this... never. My take is that let the acting Ceo put a pin 📍 on this project and we'll resume with it when some of our departments are functional ie Eskom and others of course
Don’t lie to yourself
@@figolive1263 in what sense..
Fully agree. We are not in a position to fully realise the ROI of such a spend.
Mzilikazi please tone it down you sound and look very angry... And please don't educate us about tourism. Explain the Tottenham Hotspur deal.
....in your marketing experience you excluded Alleluia Ministries....
🤣🤣🤣. Alleluia Ministries are corning the people with false miracles signs and wonders.
@@angelodoubel9653 ...he was a Pastor in that Church...he was part of the Elliott resurrection miracle...no pun intended!!...if truth be told...am not against any person as a Christian myself...
@@afroisme5750 lol🤣🤣🤣
You are my minister of Department of Trade and Industry and Economic Development ❤️
At least you know your job Mr. Khumalo
Bwahahaha.... yeah right.
Stop advertising a broken product.
How much of this money will be pocketed , this money should be directed to much needed help to grow the economy and number 1 is electricity
For once we have someone bold and willing to face the public but again is it not a thing to direct funds to more important things in this case security, hire more police and bring in private security in our City, to be honest if you fix issue of crime in SA then you wouldn't need to spend billions on tourism, most people love SA but the crime makes it unattractive
The danger of 2 minutes snippets on social is that they are designed to say public opinion to a certain narrative. I have just watched the briefing and Mtungwa is making sense. Mr. Khumalo knows his story and he is very clear. The timing is off granted, but then again when will it be the right time?
Let all departments adhere to their mandates.
The most arrogant guy I have seen on TV.
No Tourist wants to visit a country where the hotel they are staying in lights are OFF, and there is no water to take a shower. [Hello Johannesburg suffering from darkness and no water for the past 5 days...] If you have a SAFE destination with all services the tourists will come. Maybe share some money with SAP to make the country secure and fix the services electricity and water!!
No tourists will come to visit dangerous country that has no water..... This is just an example of how disconnected these Ministers and their departments are from reality. Get this country SAFE so the foreign embassies tell their citizens it is safe to visit South Africa. [Remember US tourist killed near Kruger in December 2022] This smooth explanation on why you want to spend one Billion to make hopefully 88 billion fails to address the fundamental issues of SAFETY, and Services..... South Africa it the 5th MOST dangerous Tourist destination in the world.... what about that??? Fix you house and the tourists will come.... no smart talking will make them feel safe.
When u look the state of Tottenham,do u think can bring the followers?
ANC CROOK
The prices of accommodation goes up because electricity is worth caviar and inflation is ruining your population. You want to be a cheap paradise?
Cool, make sure it is a paradise.
This will make people build more hotels and during construction people will be employed when the hotels are functioning people are employed restaurants are built people hired I appreciate what the tourism board they care about the country they want to see South Africa move forward
Tourism is a very critical and important sector in our country. It real needs our attention and energy to increase its reach to most communities. I
My view is that the department must sell same marketing strategy to workers, subsidise them to travel the country and SADC Nations. Every year, there are cruise ships to Maputo and many of SAns flock into it. Drakensberg Mountains and Namibia is thee most admired destinations today. Not forgetting Metsi a Tunya Falls (victoria falls) in Zim. Will send idea to the Minister.
People are just frustrated by the load shedding but unfortunately they are doing their job which market South African tourism whether there is crime or no crime , load shedding or no load shedding.
Examples for people
" thailand - leicester city"
"Rwanda - Arsenal "
Mancity - Abu Dhabi
Now I see why that other journalist was clappedback hard on twitter.
Why are you having a conversation? Why did you not talk to the NFL, Rihanna was amazing at half time for super bowl Sunday. It's too much, CUT YOUR BUDGET, WE DON'T NEED ADVERTISING, WE NEED INFRASTUCTURE. SACRIFICE YOUR SALARY LIKE THE REST OF US. OR LOWER TAXES, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
Thanks for your resume, so you should know better this idea is absolutely terrible, perhaps you should have asked the country perhaps you should developed employment in the industry now tourism falls flat on it's face, yes, you all over thinking it. They could use that money to develop tourism in each province, each province has its own attractions, now in one amount spent on football team, back to the drawing board, once again its about egos and arrogance, sa tourism hits a roadblock
We need tourists in this country I agree that we should market our country and that includes spending money. I am cautious of spending 1 billion rand and again I am also cautious to criticize (arm chair). I support transparency but again we should give professionals to perform their duties without hindrance. Let everyone be free to perform free as long as the is no corruption.
our tourism is flooded with forigners?k@k prati jy pay mnr ..K@k met inwoners praat nie,julle pocket,.
He knows better than the minister
That is usually how it is supposed to be, remember a minister is a political appointee.
Where did Elliot go after his resurrection?
This guy should be president of South Africa. Clear spoken, no bullshitter.
The bar could be higher
🤣😂🤣😂 you should know Salick
@@michaeljacobs7426 That was sarcasm
@@UMLAZIKAZI know what?
@@anilsalick its takes one bullshiter to know 1🤣
make a deal with Man City then.😉
This guy in an attempt to be forthright comes across as arrogant.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who saw that...
U are spot on
How so? Not fighting or trolling you.
How is he arrogant?
@@andrewsidelo8221 I said the following and I quote "...comes across as arrogant." You are packaging your question incorrectly because the observation I had made is not meant to be conclusive.Your question assumes it is.
@@andrewsidelo8221@ Andrew Sidelo I guess I am now vindicated. The perception I held was verified by the speaker himself resulting in him having proffered an apology
An expert
Facts, it makes sense.
YES, It makes sense... NON-sense articulate NON-sence thats what he was employed for, an accent to throw people off by articuating nonsence.
If you understood marketing you would understand that South Africa needs an effective PR and Sales based marketing, you would also understad that currently, targeted digital marketing is the most EFFECTIVE type of marketing.
Put out that Billion towards South African influencers and see 1000 times R.O.I. while building a completely different industry (digital marketing) at the same time creating 100 000 new jobs and careers while still bringing in foreign currency solving Many South African socio economic challenges.
SPEND MONEY ON LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS.
A slave mind belives money given to the massa can never go wrong. Infact a slave is designed to enrich the master, speak like the master and twang like the master.
What madness is this🤔
Spursy.
Ramaphosa please don't reshuffle Themba Khumalo 🙏
Is he a South African?
500,000 people from England visit South Africa every year. USA doesn't follow English Premier league football. According to his linkedIn profile, he studied BA Law then ⇒ Masters in Marketing.
@United Report even less reason for the the corrupt sponsorship to happen.
@United Report heres the advertising about south africa .. if you're from the US: we have the big 5 game animals.. come and see for yourself. bring bullet proof vest.
@United Report you use of the word millions tells a tale, americans dont watch the English premier league. DONT LIE!
Mxxim
This man is clear....this is the kind of a leader we need...he stand by his view n supports it clearly...
No
thank goodness the malicious person leaked the story to media. Now OUTA is going to shut your mshikashika down
No real facts to bolster a weak, and highly suspect, project. It is a GIVEN that tourism makes a huge contribution to employment growth, economic growth and more. But, you can fund TEN English soccer teams, if you do not fix the fundamentals such as containing rampant crime (we are a very, very violent country as the latest statistics show), returning Eskom to a fully functional utility, repairing our infrastructural deficiencies, unless we do this, the BEST you will do is the historical high and not more. And, believe me, seeing teams play in Emirates or Etihad branded gear does not induce me to fly with those airlines. I seek the best price, the most bang for my buck. As a tourist destination, right now, South Africa does not tick the boxes.
Leadership, clear direction from Sir Khumalo
mr khumalo i'm convice of the right path..you are doing excellent job keep the doolar coming
I'm sure u crazy..this guy shouted and screamed n blamed media which leaves us more suspicious
This guy is a lawyer, umashaya.
Tourism budget is neccessary but this is unsustanable missapropriation of fundS. You can do far much better sustainable spending on local international influencers with targeted audiences whose hearts are already leaning to wards SOUTH AFRICA thus building two industries while creating opportunities for SOUTH AFRICANS.
With bad PR from local and international media SOUTH AFRICA needs a STRONG TARGETED PR type of marketing.
Tottenham Hotspur will be relegated next season
Was the journalist who broke the story in the room, 😂 did she just run away
This is still a reckless spend. We are not in a position to readily realise the ROI of such a massive amount.
The Acting CEO is too rude for SAs, sies maan.
U wanted a Sissy for a CEO?? Yanya!
You're my Minister of Trade, Industry and Economic Development ❤️
Why do we love corrupt people in Africa, cant you tell that this man is managing us and taking us for fools
If I was the President of South Africa, I would tell the tourism board that they must move forward with the implementation of the strategy but, they must use their retirement savings to finance the strategy. When the strategy becomes successful, the state will compensate them for all the money which they have spent on the strategy.
Mr Khumalo👏👋👏👋👏🙏👋
Please don’t back down do your job this will bring back jobs to South Africa forget about the people who criticize but have no solutions to the problems
Themba Khumalo👌👌👌
Can we move him to Eskom please
😅😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🥵🥵🥵
Ngiyasola liswati lakagogo ke leli!
People don't come because they don't want to get robbed and they want to have power... sort that out first.. LOL what a stupid idea 😆 🤣
When I see "visit Rwanda" on the Arsenal fc shirt I am not persuaded to do that. Yet I can afford to. Instead I've traveled to other destinations..yet strangely, this concept is presented to be the one genius solution to tourism marketing. Khumalo and board are gambling here. The plan is bury the gamble in business detail. When the fact is South African international appeal does not evaporate if we scrap this.
This one and his model c english
Fix the crime first and then stop the killing of innocent tourist who visits SA. What tourism are you lecturing when your security infrastructure is worst than DRC CONGO .
He almost sounds like Vusi Thembekwayo this Khumalo. 🤔
He sure does...
He is right in terms of what he needs to do with the budget allocated to his portfolio.
The question is why does so much of our budget go to such activities when the country has more pressing needs like stable electricity supply. Whats the use of getting potential investors when we cant even keep the lights on for a full day in 2023?
These questions must go to the treasury department and finance minister.
Because this initiative will bring the return unlike the money that will be given to Eskom and end up not paid back because we are not willing to pay for anything in this country at least tourists pay for their hotels and travelling around the country and the country gets something from them we are the part of the Eskom problems.
@@BuhlebzNetwork How so?
Thabiso...Eskom is under another portfolio...departments are separate entities with different budgets...legally...please guys...Eskom and Tourism are different portfolios...
Give this man a Bells!!! However how will it profit the tourist to see the country in the dark and without water, through the country filled with potholes.....clearly the departments r not talking to each other, no synergy....the timing is completely off!
Can he be the minister of water and energy!!!
So tourists that are going site seeing need electricity?