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CAPE TOWN, Thursday (Reuters) Holidaymakers are paying 20 rand ($2.20) each to view wreckage of the plane in which disgraced South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje died last June, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper said the wreckage of the Hawker Siddeley 748 freighter in which Cronje hitched a ride home was laid out on the floor of a warehouse in the small southcoast resort of Mossel Bay, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Cape Town.

The plane crashed into mountains near the coastal Fancourt golf estate where Cronje was living after being sacked from the national side for taking bribes to influence international matches. He was returning home after a business visit to Bloemfontein when the accident occurred.

Though Cronje was banned even from commentating on or teaching cricket, he continues to command huge respect and his death has spawned a memorabilia industry including tapes of his favourite music and videos of his finest moments on the pitch.

Cape Town's Die Burger newspaper said about 200 people visited the exhibition, which ends on January 15, during the first two days.

The newspaper said businessman Leon Dorfling, who paid to recover the wreckage from the mountainside, had abandoned plans to include it in a monument to Cronje, but declined to say what would happen to it after the holiday exhibition.

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