An opportunity to score big profits from an international sporting event, the World Table Tennis Championships Finals, that will be hosted in Durban for eight days, beginning on Saturday, has been fluffed.
Politicians and some in local table tennis circles believe that the City and other role-players could have attracted more fans and netted greater benefits from the popular sporting code that has an active participation of 300 million people globally.
They view the anticipated sum of R50 million that local businesses are expected