Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom addressed the media at a recent cabinet briefing, to comment on recommendations from the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) tasked with reviewing South Africa's immigration regulations.
The IMC recommended that:
The news that a foreign national would no longer have to make a visa application to travel to South Africa in person and that although South African children would still be required to travel with an unabridged birth certificate, the wording would be changed to read "birth certificate containing parental details" is encouraging, especially since the regulations had presented a challenge to international travel to and from South Africa, Duminy said.
