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For months, no-one has looked after the once thriving hotel, casino and golf resort, valued at millions of rand. The resort, owned by the Prudhoe community after a successful land claim, is in ruins after TV and bed sets, cutlery, bed linen and fridges were looted over the weekend.

The digital company MahalaX, which signed a 49-year lease agreement with the Prudhoe Community Trust to safeguard Fish River Resort assets near Port Alfred, was forced out of the agreement, after the community allegedly harassed and intimidated its staff.

Once a jewel along the Sunshine Coast, the Fish River Resort near Port Alfred is now in ruins after TVs, bed sets, cutlery, linen and fridges were looted at the weekend.

The sun has set on the Fish River Resort near Port Alfred, with the once-thriving hotel, casino and golf resort destroyed by wholesale looting and vandalism.

Protesters who this week forcibly evicted an international film crew of 48 people from the Fish Studios at the former Fish River resort have been interdicted from entering the resort or threatening, assaulting or intimidating staff or clients.

The Prudhoe community, which has finally been given ownership of the stunning Fish River Resort and golf course, has already secured over half a billion rand in investment which is likely to benefit the entire province. It has taken almost a quarter of a century and several running legal battles with government and a competing claimant community for the community to finally get back its land.

The ninth season of Survivor South Africa is being filmed in the vicinity of the Fish River Resort, which is good news for the economy of the Sunshine Coast.