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Residents say rental prices have increased drastically and accuse authorities of making the city a tourist destination at the expense of locals. (Getty Images)

Locals drown in digital nomad wave

Hotspots around the world are struggling to strike the balance between growing their tourism industries and protecting locals’ pockets

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read
In early February, AfriForum, together with several other organisations, businesses and community members, removed more than 1 623 tonnes of water lettuce from the Vaal River. Photo: AfriForum

Vaal River residents say water lettuce is ‘national crisis’

If allowed to pass the Vaal River Barrage, the plant has access to a journey of about 1 000km of the middle and lower Vaal river, the Bloemhof Dam and then into the Orange river

  • Sheree Bega
11 min read