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Bloomberg News reports that Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said in an interview on Wednesday that a "cooking" summer holiday season in the province spurred an increase in hiring.
He claimed that about 99%, or 167,000 of the 169,000 job gains in SA in the three months through December were in the coastal province. The domestic tourism industry was the main driver of employment in the quarter, followed by the financial and services industries. "This December we had 191 direct international flights coming into Cape Town a week. We did a million tourists through our airport in the summer season," Winde noted. Statistics SA data show the number of tourists visiting SA in December, traditionally the most popular holiday month, increased by 158% from a year earlier. The previous two summer seasons were affected by coronavirus restrictions.
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