Sun City set to welcome visitors
Sun City, South Africa’s iconic tourist destination, welcomes back visitors for the first time today since closing its doors at the start of the national lockdown in March.
The moment, celebrated by staff yesterday with a performance of the #Jerusalema challenge, was significant not only for North West province but for the local tourism industry as a whole, said Sun City general manager, Brett Hoppe.
Having worked at Sun City twice before, Hoppe moved from Time Square, Pretoria, to take up the top position at Sun International’s flagship establishment, but had barely started when Covid-19 struck.
“If you had said to me in January that in March we will shut down Sun City – a property which has traded 24/7 365 days a year for the past 40 years – and not trade for 156 days I would not have believed it.
“The first two weeks we drove around the resort in a bit of a ‘dwaal’ (dazed state). It was uncanny, no cars, no people.”
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