Just under a million international tourists arrived in South Africa in July. The precise figure, 991 696, sits 12% above the same month last year and lifts the 2026 running total to 6 576 169, growth of 12.4%.
Then look at the passports. Arrivals from elsewhere on the continent are up 14.3% so far this year. Overseas arrivals are up 5.7%. Africa is growing at roughly two and a half times the pace of the long-haul markets, and Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille has framed that shift as strategy rather than serendipity.
For a sector that has spent much of the year fielding questions about whether public sentiment around immigration might deter visitors, the numbers paint a different…
Literacy Rate: The country has made significant progress in improving literacy
rates since the end of apartheid, with a current rate of approximately 94%.
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