{"id":34294,"date":"2026-05-12T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34294"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:28:59","slug":"sa-president-to-open-2026-africa-travel-indaba","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-to-open-2026-africa-travel-indaba\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President to open 2026 Africa Travel Indaba\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to officially open the 2026 Africa Travel Indaba in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal province\u00a0 this Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Indaba is one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar, showcasing the widest variety of the continent\u2019s best tourism products.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, there have been some concerns from African countries in attendance about the recent anti-illegal immigrant marches in Durban.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says they have noted the concerns, vowing that the event will be safe and successful for all in attendance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cYes, we did receive inquiries from some of the African ministers. They wanted to have a guarantee that they will be safe, and of course, through our DIRCO department and the statements that the Ramaphosa made on Freedom Day, we are able to not give them the guarantee but to ensure, you know, that we look after their safety. And we\u2019ve responded to all of them, and all of them are still coming. They can see it could be a temporary thing, you know, might blow over.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15691,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-34294","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Indaba is one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar.","published_date":"","news_description":"The Indaba is one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34295,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34294\/revisions\/34295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}