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...services. It is also offering tourism training and assistance, including loans and tax concessions, to small businesses. As a result, bed-and-breakfasts have become big business as well as a bargain for holiday makers. Stellenbosch, a historic settler community in a picturesque winelands region 30 miles from Cape Town, has 105 registered bed-and-breakfasts. SATOUR has issued a 254-page accommodation guide that lists 1,877 establishments. Some are luxury guest houses, but many are in the easily affordable $20-to-$30 daily bracket...
...with the private sector to develop ventures that will maintain South Africa's position as a world leader in wildlife and environmental conservation. For dedicated and affluent wild-animal watchers, the $40 million Cape Wildlife Reserve, with more than 60,000 acres of the Klein Karoo, east of Cape Town, will open in January 2000. The luxury game reserve, which will include executive lodges, a resort and a conference center, is reintroducing Africa's popular Big Five--elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions and leopards--from overstocked game parks elsewhere in the country to the Western Cape, where they have...
...Cape Town, in the south, remains the country's key tourist destination, visited by more than half of all foreign vacationers. Over the past two years, 30 new hotels have opened, doubling capacity. The city holds one of the most potent symbols of the new--and old--South Africa: a 30-minute cruise away from its Waterfront lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment. It is now a museum and national monument. In the nearby hinterland, the Mediterranean-style wine lands provide travelers with more evidence of change: a growing number of wineries...
While suburban and small-town parents often worry about their kids being overscheduled with sports and not having enough free time, many inner-city families say they would love to have such problems. When kids pour out of school each day in scores of lower-income urban communities, all that awaits them is the street--no soccer, baseball or ice skating. They just hang out, while their parents pray that dead-end afternoons won't lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka...
Consider the contrast between two suburbs of St. Louis. In upscale Clayton, Mo., the after-school menu is crowded with leagues and summer-camp activities ranging from baseball and martial arts to tennis and volleyball. But travel 15 minutes northwest to Clayton's working-class neighbor, the town of Jennings. There the recreation department is understaffed, lacks a gymnasium and relies largely on local public schools and other facilities, creating transportation problems that keep many kids sidelined. "There are some definite barriers," says Cindy Tharp, director of recreation in Jennings. "But if parents want to get their child involved, they...