
Club Med SAS has landed in the middle of a furore over the best way to keep sharks from attacking tourists at its more than $120 million South African resort.
Just months ahead of the official opening of Club Med Tinley Manor — the French tourism company’s first resort in the country about 30 miles north of the subtropical Indian Ocean port city of Durban — marine scientists have lodged a complaint over the possibility local authorities will erect nets off the beach adjacent to the resort.
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Fun South African Fact: South Africa is known as the “Rainbow Nation” thanks to its mix of cultures across the country. The status of being a cultural “melting pot” is evident in the fact that South Africa has a whopping 11 official languages: English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, IsiNdebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga. Most South Africans speak more than one national language. IsiZulu is the most common first language and isiXhosa is second. Fun fact – did you know the people of Wakanda speak isiXhosa in Marvel’s Black Panther movie?