The production of a high-security South African passport started on Wednesday, the CEO of the Government Printing Works said.
An urgent application by the IFP leader to force the government to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama will take place on Thursday.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi will push ahead with a court application to force the minister of home affairs to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
An urgent court application by Mangosuthu Buthelezi to force the home affairs minister to grant the Dalai Lama a visa has been set down for Tuesday.
ANC president Jacob Zuma says the government’s refusal of a visa to the Dalai Lama did not undermine human rights, according to a report on Friday.
The health minister’s comments about the decision to deny the Dalai Lama a visa were ”rather unfortunate”, said a government spokesperson on Wednesday
The government on Wednesday declined to comment further on Health Minister Barbara Hogan’s call for it to apologise for denying the Dalai Lama a visa.
Health Minister Barbara Hogan has called on the government to apologise for refusing the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a peace conference.
The controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama’s attendance of the South African Peace Conference has prompted organisers to postpone the Friday event.
The Nobel committee said on Monday it would not participate in a conference unless South Africa reconsiders a decision to deny the Dalai Lama a visa.
SA did not issue a visa to the Dalai Lama because it did not want to remove attention from the World Cup preparations, said a spokesperson.
The Tibetan government-in-exile confirmed on Monday that South Africa has denied the Dalai Lama a visa, blaming ”intense pressure” from China.
New UK visa requirements for South Africans are not expected to have a big impact on trade between the two countries, it was reported on Tuesday.
South Africans will have a new passport — with undisclosed security features built into it — next month.
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/ 27 February 2009
South Africans hoping to live and work in the United Kingdom have been dealt another blow.
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/ 15 February 2009
Nic Dawes, Mandy Rossouw and Ilham Ravoot examine the deepening freeze in relations between South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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/ 10 February 2009
Government on Tuesday admitted there were ”some problems” with passport authorisation in SA, which has put an end to visa-free entry to the UK.
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/ 10 February 2009
The British authorities have announced that South Africans wanting to visit Britain will have to have visas from next month.
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/ 9 February 2009
Britain’s Home Office is imposing tougher visa requirements on South Africans as it seeks to combat emerging new terror fronts.
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/ 28 November 2008
When she’s hunting for a visa in Addis Ababa, Arsema Andargatchew refuses to accept that she isn’t welcome elsewhere in the world.
Restrictions prohibiting HIV-positive people from obtaining visas or permits to travel or work abroad adds to the global stigma around HIV.