From Tofo Beach Cottages:

I have to write to say that there is really no reason for cancellations if the only reason is fear of xenophobia.  There is absolutely no trouble in any part of Mozambique related to these troubles in South Africa, not even in Maputo.  Garry and I have just travelled from Tofo to Nelspruit and back again and there was no sign anywhere, on the roads, or in towns of villages or anywhere, of any kind of trouble whatsoever.  The border was peaceful… I believe that the media have blown the situation completely out of proportion (as usual) and, although I know of the troubles that have been happening in South Africa, these have not been duplicated in Mozambique.  This is a safe, calm and peaceful country

From Barra Reef Resort:

Russel (owner of Barra Reef Divers) and I arrived to SA after a busy week with the Adventure Dive Challenge 9 – 18 May, on the 28th of May in the early hours of the morning at about 01:10 am!! We left Inhambane (500km north of Maputo) on the 27th 13:00 pm and were critically looking at any signs of unrest or aggression in our town. At Verdino’s, Tara & Barry the British Couple’s Restaurant in town, the “foreigners hang out” was full as usual with no sign of anything that is not normal! On the way to Maputo we stopped twice once at a small town to buy some of the “Mother in-Law” Peri-Peri sauce and once in Xai Xai at the Pharmacy. I climbed out both times with loads of vendors around me with no one even blinking an eye in the directions of aggression? Through Maputo that evening around 18:30 it was hectic as always with the traffic and even more so with the darkness!

You are only a good driver once you have driven through Maputo at night! In all that “craziness” we passed without incident & even at the toll gate in Maputo with quite a long queue, widows wined down, next to other cars no one even blinked at us? At the Komati Poort border gate near Nelspruit (Resano Garcia) later that evening there were almost no cars or people even and we passed as if there were never any unrest in SA?

The only negative thing that did occur, happened last week at the height of the unrest in SA clients did drive back and on the way they were shown the finger over the throat and screamed at.