Anti-crime website owner accepts ticket offer
July 21 2006 at 12:33PM
By Terri-Liza Fortein
It's an eventful week for Neil Watson. He says his provocative website warning tourists about rape, murder and robbery in South Africa has been "sabotaged" - and he's taking up an offer by a city politician for a one-way ticket out of the country.
"Someone sabotaged (the website)," Watson said on Friday. He said this had happened last Thursday, and earlier this week someone "planted" a virus.
Watson said his IT team had worked hard to get the site up again, but on Friday the Cape Argus found it closed down about a minute after being opened.
Watson says he will take up the ID's Simon Grindrod on his offer of a one-way air ticket out of the country - if it includes his whole family and their cat.
City councillor Grindrod lashed out at Watson for urging people all over the world to boycott the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"If it is genuinely the intention of Neil Watson to damage the economy of South Africa in this blatant and irrational way, then I offer him a one-way air ticket to a destination of his choice."
Watson, an insurance broker who lives in Camps Bay, said he wanted tickets to New York for himself, his wife, four children and the family cat.
"I will gladly take him (Grindrod) up on his offer, but that doesn't mean I will stop working on my website or stop caring about my country."
Grindrod has said he will honour his offer only if Watson undertakes never to return.
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