Abakhenkethi kwingingqi yeCasamance esemazantsi eSenegal bathi ukungakhuseleki, iirhafu eziphezulu, kunye nokudodobala koqoqosho lwehlabathi kukhathaza abanini bamashishini abancinci abaninzi.
Abadanisi basekuhlaleni bonwabisa abakhenkethi baseYurophu kwenye yeehotele ezinkulu ezigudle unxweme olusemazantsi eSenegal. Ngelixa imeko yoqoqosho lwehlabathi ilithobile ishishini apho, bekunzima kakhulu kwizindlu zeendwendwe ezincinci ezisezilalini ezikude phakathi nelizwe apho uvukelo olukhulu oluchasene norhulumente eDakar luncede ukunika uCasamance igama elibi.
U-Bakary Denis Sane ukhokela umbutho wabaqhubi beehotele ezincinci eCasamance.
Kwiminyaka engaphezulu kwe-20 ukusukela oko kwaqala ingxaki yokhuseleko ebangelwe luvukelo, uSane uthi uninzi lweehotele ezincinci eCasamance zinqabile. Uninzi lwazo lutshisiwe. Abaninzi kubo baye bashiywa.
Ngaphandle kwesivumelwano soxolo ngo-2004, iindlela ezininzi kule nxalenye esemazantsi eSenegal zihlala zingakhuselekanga, ubukhulu becala ngenxa yobugebenga obunganxulumani ngqo nemvukelo yohlanga lwaseDioula.
USane uthi uninzi lwabafana kunye namagqiyazana abebesebenza kwiikompompi zabakhenkethi ezisekelwe ezilalini baye bemka besiya komkhulu bekhangela imisebenzi.
U-Angele Diagne ukhokela umbutho wabasebenzi basehotele yaseCasamance.
Xa kuvalwa iihotele, uthi oomama nootata abaninzi baphulukana nemisebenzi yabo. Oko kwandisa inani labantu abahluphekayo njengoko abafazi ababethengisa imisebenzi yemveli kubakhenkethi belahlekelwa ngabathengi babo. UDiagne ufuna urhulumente andise ixesha labakhenkethi kwaye akhuthaze abantu baseSenegal ukuba batyelele le ndawo xa abakhenkethi baseYurophu bengekho.
UAugustin Diatta ungumnikazi we-arhente yokuhamba kwisixeko saseZiguinchor. Uthi urhulumente akachithi mali yaneleyo ukukhuthaza iihotele ezincinci.
Yintoni uphuhliso lokwenyani, uDiatta uyabuza. Uphuhliso lokwenyani lukwiindawo ezikhethwe ziilali apho iikhabhinethi zakhiwe ngabahlali kwaye izibonelelo zabiwa phakathi kwabahlali.
Kule minyaka isibhozo ezama ukukhuthaza ukhenketho kwiikhomponi zasezilalini, uthi abanye oonozakuzaku bamazwe angaphandle eSenegal babebalela abemi babo ukuba baye eCasamance. Ngoku uthi itshintsha kancinci.
UDiatta uthi ukhenketho eCasamace alululanga kuba kufuneka ufumanise ukuba zeziphi iindlela ezikhuselekileyo. Kwaye kuya kufuneka ufumane abakhenkethi abathanda ngokwenene iCasamance kwaye bangakhathali nokuba bathini amaphephandaba kunye nozakuzaku. Kukwakho nomba wexabiso kuba uninzi lokhenketho luyabiza ngenxa yerhafu ephezulu yaseSenegal.
UChristian Jackot ungumnikazi wehotele eCasamance. Uthi irhafu yomkhenkethi ngamnye ye-372 Euro, engaphezulu kancinci kwe-500 yeedola, yenza iSenegal ibe yindawo engathandekiyo.
UJako uthi ukuba uthelekisa oko kunye nezinye iindawo ezifana neMorocco, apho irhafu i-75 euro okanye i-Ivory Coast apho irhafu ye-120 euro, iSenegal ibiza kakhulu. Njengamanye amashishini, abanini beehotele eSenegal bahlawula i-18 ekhulwini lerhafu eyongeziweyo, ngoxa abo bakhuphisana nabo eMorocco naseTunisia behlawula irhafu yesi-5.5 ekhulwini.
Abakhenkethi namhlanje baqingqa imali. Bathelekisa iindawo ezahlukeneyo zokuya kuzo. Ukuba unokuchitha iintsuku ezili-15 eSeychelles okanye eTunisia ngexabiso elifanayo onokuthi uchithe iveki enye eSenegal, uJackot uthi abakhenkethi baya eSeychelles, Tunisia, Antilles, okanye iGambia engummelwane.
U-Luca D'Ottavio ukhangela uhlobo olwahlukileyo lwabakhenkethi. Iarhente yakhe yokuHamba ngeMpilo ikhuthaza ukhenketho olunoxanduva loluntu apho abantu bahlala kwiindawo zokulala ezilungele indalo kwaye bancedise ngeeprojekthi zophuhliso lwasekhaya eCasamance.
UD'Ottavio uthi amajelo eendaba asekhaya nawamanye amazwe akwenza kube nzima oko ngokugxila kuphela kwizenzo zobugebenga.
“Ingxaki eCasamance kukuba akukho mithombo yeendaba isasaza yonke iminyhadala emnandi eyenzekayo. Sithetha ngeekhanivali. Sithetha ngeminyhadala yomdaniso. Sithetha ngemisitho yamandulo efana neHlathi eliNgcwele elitsala amawaka abantu minyaka le,” utshilo uD’Ottavio.
UD'Ottavio uthi abakhenkethi bagcina abathengi babo bekude neendawo ezingakhuselekanga.
“Into enye njengokuba umntu ohlala eNew York engathathi umhlobo wakhe eBronx ngo-5:00 kusasa kuba kusenokubakho iingxaki. Owona mandla wethu kukuba bonke aba bantu babuyele kumazwe abo bathethe kwiibhlog zohambo, bathethe nabahlobo babo ngokhuseleko lwalo mmandla,” utshilo.
I-D'Ottavio ikwasebenza kwiinkqubo zokutshintshiselana kwabafundi apho abantu abatsha abavela eYurophu nase-United States beza eCasamance kwiiprojekthi zenkonzo yoluntu.
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- In the more than 20 years since the start of the security crisis brought on by the rebellion, Sane says many of the small hotels in Casamance have declined.
- If you can spend 15 days in the Seychelles or Tunisia for the same price that you can spend one week in Senegal, Jackot says tourists will go to the Seychelles, Tunisia, the Antilles, or even neighboring Gambia.
- In the eight years he has been trying to promote tourism in village compounds, he says some foreign embassies in Senegal were forbidding their citizens from going to Casamance.
