Other countries added to South Africa's new list of visa-free countries are Qatar, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sao Tome and Principe. Mr Motsoaledi said that his office will immediately enter into discussions with the respective countries about how a visa-free regime will work. He added that further discussions will also be held for countries like China, India and Nigeria. “While we are busy tackling the matter of the three countries, we shall this financial year increase two and a half times the number of people who work for Home Affairs to process visas in both China and India. “We shall double the number of people who process visas to our country in Nigeria,” he said.Today, we wish to announce an addition to our visa ”“ free countries. These are: ”¢Qatar ”¢United Arab Emirates ”¢New Zealand ”¢Saudi Arabia ”¢Cuba ”¢Ghana ”¢Sao Tome and Principe@travel24 @tourism_gov_za#DHABudgetVote2019 pic.twitter.com/u6edTwkWxu
— HomeAffairsSA (@HomeAffairsSA) July 10, 2019
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