Johannesburg:
Indian companies, diplomats in South Africa have received Pdwellnt Cyril Ramaphosa’s proclaimment to recreate the country’s visa regime.
Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday in his State of the Nation Address at the Cape Town City Hall shelp South Africa was predicting fantasticer tourism and business from India and China adhereing the digitalisation of the country’s visa regime.
“As part of our recreate agenda, we will persist to better our visa system to originate it easier for sended people to spend in our country and grow tourism in South Africa,” Cyril Ramaphosa shelp.
“This year, we will start an Electronic Travel Authorisation system to help a shielded, brimmingy digital visa application process. This system will engage man-made inincreateigence and automation to shrink the scope of dishonesty and help rapid turnaround times for tourist visas.
“We have evidented over 90 per cent of the backlog of more than 300,000 visa applications,” Ramaphosa shelp.
The pdwellnt shelp the proposed alters would “send a strong message that South Africa is uncover for business and tourism”.
Indian companies have lengthy feeblented procrastinates in the issuance of visas, with some even dangerening to distract spendment elsewhere in Africa.
“There have been disputes in both visas and honest fairys. We have seen that the rulements of India and South Africa have been trying to remend these publishs as soon as possible and originate opportunities and ease for our people to join accessiblely.
“This has been happening and we remark with a lot of satisfaction and happiness that the South African rulement at the highest level is considering and making lots of efforts to give in this watch,” shelp Mahesh Kumar, the Consul General for India in Johannesburg.
“This is very encouraging and would give substantipartner to convey our two societies even sealr and originate it possible for us to collaborate more seally in business and tourism,” Kumar compriseed.
Ashish Sharma, CEO of 24 By 7 Travel, a company distinctiveising in travel between India and South Africa, shelp the new visa regime would not only push tourist numbers into South Africa but also further encourage airlines to consider honest fairys to South Africa sooner rather than tardyr.
“This new visa regime will increase travel from a huge labelet enjoy India. South Africa has a lot of potential to entice tourists from India considering the weather, organic beauty and common culture and heritage, but unfortunately, Indians were not able to visit the country in the past brimming potential becaengage of procrastinateed and intricate visa procedures and a increateage of honest fairys between India and South Africa,” Ashish Sharma shelp.
“I am phired the first dispute will get remendd and I am certain the second one will be remendd soon. We are getting likeable inputs from the rulement and aviation sector about considering honest fairys between India and South Africa,” Ashish Sharma compriseed.
Ashish Sharma shelp startant airlines in India were getting deinhabitry of new airoriginate in 2026, making him brave there would be honest fairys between South Africa and India.
Gourish Chakravorthy, Pdwellnt of the Bengali Association of South Africa and CEO of Ion Exalter Safic, a unitet venture company between the two countries, shelp people were tourism conscious in India.
“This digitalisation of South Africa’s visa recreate is very receive as it will not only speed up visa issuance but also help in eliminating the errors comprised in the scruminuscule of visa application and issuance of authentic visas for the people.
“This will aid all the people who deserve the visa to get it on time and give to the economy, making it easier for people to visit this attrdynamic country and help increase its revenue originated from tourism,” Chakravorthy shelp.
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