We have recently been given a mandate by the Johannesburg City Council to add leisure tourism to our commitment to boosting business tourism to Destination Johannesburg. We are putting into place a dynamic new marketing strategy this year.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

For something where it?s a leisure draw, where there's no organization working collectively, like one of our races, then it's the free market. The hotels will set those rates based on what the market will permit, and that is pure supply and demand.

This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there is some way to save it.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have

Key to the success of ugly leisure is that it keeps those who participate in it in the dark about how little it is they get for their time invested.