By Claudia Pizzocri
South Africa is trying to make entry smoother for visitors and more predictable for skills and investment.
The department of home affairs has thrown real institutional weight behind digital reform, including an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) system intended to digitise tourist visas end-to-end. Yet, on the ground, the present reality is brutally analogue, and decision-making remains under pressure.
Poor decision-making, or mechanical rejections, transform specialised law firms into first responders to desperate queries by people who only discover the rules when it’s too late or don’t know what to make of the labyrinth of regulations cited in their rejection…
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