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- ↑ "Cabinet appoints new SA Tourism Board". Daily Southern & East African Tourism Update. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ↑ "New CEO of SA Tourism appointed". Daily Southern & East African Tourism Update. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
