South Africa: Cholera Halts Wc Hotel Building

21 December 2008

Work on Rainbow Tourism's new Beitbridge hotel, being built to cater for 2010 World Cup tourists, has ended earlier than planned due to seven workers contracting cholera.

With less than 18 months to the kick off of the Fifa showpiece in South Africa, the luxury 120-bedroom hotel alongside the Limpopo River, planned to open in time to accommodate football fans, was halted, due to cholera hitting the workers, shortages of fuel at the border town and complications arising from dollarization of Zimbabwe's economy.

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