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Home affairs committee urges visitors to comply with immigration regulations

Source: EWN, 29/12/2015

JOHANNESBURG – The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs says visitors
to the country must comply with immigration regulations for the safety
of South African citizens and also for their own.

The department has urged travellers to familiarise themselves with the
regulations following a number of foreign tourists who have been
rejected from entering the country.

Chairperson of the committee Lemias Mashile says while the rules have
been relaxed to accommodate visitors they also offer security for
those that wish to visit the country.

"It doesn`t help for us to relax the regulations because then the
wrong people will get into the country… We don`t want that type of a
situation."

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