[SimonS1]

Pleased to see the clown Gigaba has been forced by Ramaphosa to remove the ridiculous requirements he introduced in 2015.

Finally, Gigabyte forced to overhaul SA’s silly child-visa rules

Bad news is the continued attempts at biometrics which will presumably start slowing the immigration queues down again.

[capetonianm]

Arriving CPT on Friday, it will be interesting to see if it is visibly different to the last time, unfortunately I arrive at 1055 which although it avoids the early morning rush, coincides with at least 3 other international widebody arrivals.

[conshaldow]

Fantastic news. I had a client who was once denied boarding a few years ago due to affidavit being completed incorrectly. This resulted in passenger having to rebook to travel the next day at quite a high cost, as the airline weren’t willing to do anything to help. I’ll leave it up to yourselves to decide which airline possibly could have done such a thing…

[LuganoPirate]

This really was a nonsense. Once an immigration person tried to deny my son entry as his Birth Certificate was issued more than 6 months from his date of arrival and was therefore invalid. I asked for a supervisor and all was then ok. CPT was much easier than JNB with them sometimes just asking if I had all the paperwork. when my eldest was 17 they stopped asking him for anything.

The affidavits were a nightmare. In South Africa our lawyer did them for nothing bar a drink in the pub, in Switzerland we had to pay CHF75 each time and for each boy, and then one set for Mrs. LP and one for me and a different one if they were travelling alone. I then copied the wording, used an old rubber stamp and a signature and it was accepted every time by the airlines and SA immigration. Saved a small fortune. So if I could do that, how many others did it as well?

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