WATCH: Lesufi outlines arrests, G20 Leaders’ Summit investment and more

By Akani Nkuna

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi said on Tuesday that the province had raked in up to R3 billion in investment and visitor spending over the G20 Leaders’ Summit weekend in Johannesburg.

Lesufi was addressing the media at the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, where he provided a report on the province’s security operations and the investment prospects that resulted from the summit.

“We can confirm that this was a resounding support for our province. Preliminary reports indicate that,[for] that weekend alone, Gauteng scored investment amounts between R1 billion and R3 billion. We are still consolidating these figures from the hotels, travel agencies, and institutions that shared their statistics with ours,” he said.

“But we can confirm almost all our hotels were fully booked, the airlines to our province were also booked, and our malls were busy with visitors, including our tourists’ destinations in Soweto, Magalies, and Sandton in particular, where