South Africans will soon require a visa

maximax..by the way..I was wondering how come you have a blue star above your photo with number 10 in it. Does that indicate you have been here for long or what? Sorry because it doesn't really belong to this discussion.

I am Canadian and I need a passport to visit other countries, even the States. I do not like the idea of visas because they sort of restrict the kind of people who are allowed in. And may be used to keep out people who have fled the country because they are afraid if they stayed in their homeland, they will be murdered. I think this is happening in South Africa, because after Apartheid was ended, there were probably a large number of blacks there who felt that things should have happened as they did in Zimbabwe where the white farmers were driven off their land and those who stood their ground were murdered. (Now I am sure that when you get down to this, if your ancestors had come to South Africa over 200 years ago, then someone else has settled in your former farm or home back in the Netherlands or in England, so there is absolutely no place to go back to. And some of the people who came from foreign countries, like for instance India, Japan, China, whatever have moved into England and the Netherlands. And if they returned and drove them out, then there would be a big stink). And that means that quite a number of the Afrikaans, etc. will want to leave. I can see keeping terrorists out, but to make it harder for honest people to leave because if they stay, their lives are in danger no. Oh and passports in Canada are only good for eight years and they are about $80 a person. Cash cow anyone?

Visa system is a restriction on free movement of us. By this the authorities are controlling our movements. Passport and visa are the wings of the system.

I would think Visa is a must for anyone traveling to other country. With the rise of terrorism so much that it is better to have checks who is coming in your country legally atleast. No one can say now the terrorists come only from a particular country as they are from all countries now. i would support it

well it probably all has to do with protection of countries..although im not sure how..I always though that most info was contained in a passport..so what is really the purpose of a visa...except to allow entry to another country. There are many deseases unfortunately coming out of south africa so perhaps its an attempt to curb some of this as well. Its so that everyone knows where everyone is, in the world at any time if they may be a threat

What? I'm surprised we didn't already require one! What anarchist let that happen? Everyone coming to a new country must be scrutinized for terrorism, criminality, welfare scamming, the possibility of them remaining here illegally, or other parameters of fitness. Grow up and stop trying to tear down this country.

It is amazing to hear that there was no requirement of Visa for a UK citizen to travel South Africa. In my country, India, this is a facility which we get only if want to travel Bhutan and Nepal. I think, what your government is doing is perfectly right. Visa allowed administration to check efficiently about the antecedent of the person who is travelling inwards. The world has become a dangerous place because of the proliferation of terrorism. In this situation, your country is doing perfectly right. I don't know, but there may also be the reason of controlling the migration. In India, we always heard news about the UK attempt to curb the migration. In the age of economic recession the policy of 'sons of the soil' has become a mundane stuffs.

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I think visas are the typical diplomatic scams on earth...they prevent the free movement of people from one country to another. To me it gives me the idea of how politics can control the movement of people as if they were cattle. Anyway, most likely the visa issue comes up every time the economical instability comes into play, as visas prevent bulk migration of people from areas of the world where economical conditions drive people out of their countries. I am sorry to hear this is happening for S.Africa but Ihope they remove it soon.