Showing posts with label single tourist visa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label single tourist visa. Show all posts

18 August 2011

A single visa for tourists visiting South Africa & Mozambique?

update (19 Aug 2011) - Voice of America (VoA) is now also reporting about it! 

According to the Mozambique News agency (AIM), Mozambique's Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana announced that the governments of Mozambique and South Africa will soon begin to issue single visas for tourists who wish to visit both countries.
The Malaysian National News Agency is furthermore quoting the minister saying that the new "single visa" initiative will cover 14 European Union countries.
Bloomberg Businessweek is citing the Mozambican independent daily O Pais reporting that, according to South African Tourism Minister Marthinus Schalkwyk, the initiative might be implemented ‘soon’ in all 14 countries of the Southern African Development Community.

Can anyone confirm this? Any more info about the initiative?

14 March 2011

Single tourist visa for Southern Africa?

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) member countries are currently in talks about a single tourist visa and will hopefully come to a conclusion at the SADC ministerial meeting slated for June 2011 (13 - 17 June) in Lusaka, Zambia. The ministerial meeting is expected to evolve a "grand action plan" that will lead to the establishment of the SADC single tourists’ visa.

SADC member countries are Tanzania, Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.