South African Permanent Residence

South Africa encourages permanent residency if you are serious about staying in South Africa on a long terms permanent basis there are many categories you can apply under.

• Hold a General Work Visa for five years and have a permanent job offer.
• Hold a Relative’s Visa sponsored by an immediate family member.
• Hold a Critical Skills Visa and have 5 years relevant work experience.
• Be in a proven life partner relationship for five years
• Be married to an SA Spouse for at least five years.
• Have held Refugee Asylum Status for five years.
• Hold a Business Visa.
• Receive a monthly income of R37,000 through Pension or Retirement Annuity
• Have a net asset worth of R12m and payment to Home Affairs of R120,000

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Another global market bets big on Indian tourists, South Africa eyes film and MICE tourism

28 May 2022 – Money Control

South Africa aims to attract close to 29,000 Indian visitors in 2022, a 64 percent year-on-year increase over 2021, said Neliswa Nkani, hub head, MEISEA, South African Tourism.

Among the many international markets eyeing Indian visitors to boost tourism is South Africa, which expects double-digit growth in arrivals from India in 2022 over 2021.

South Africa aims to attract close to 29,000 Indian visitors in 2022, a 64 percent year-on-year increase over 2021, said Neliswa Nkani, hub head, MEISEA, South African Tourism.

“India is our seventh largest international source market and is one of the top three focus markets for South African Tourism globally. A large portion of Indian arrivals into South Africa are from Mumbai (48 percent), New Delhi (26 percent) and Bengaluru (9 percent),” Nkani told Moneycontrol.

She added that travellers from Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata too contribute in a big way. “Ahmedabad, Goa, Chandigarh and key cities in Kerala are fast emerging traveller markets for us,” she added.

The country, which had recorded close to 100,000 Indian visitors in 2019, is expecting to reach pre-pandemic levels by 2023-2024.

“Earlier this year, we outlined a strategic roadmap to garner increased Indian visitation in 2022. With over 4,600 Indian visitors travelling to South Africa during January and February 2022, we are on track to achieve or even surpass these targets, especially with the opening up of international air routes and easing of travel restrictions,” said Nkani.

She added that the lifting of travel restrictions and resumption of international flights is boosting outbound travel intent. “At present, there are several stopover flights from India to South Africa, including Emirates, Air Seychelles, Qatar Airways, Etihad, RwandAir, Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways. We expect more air partners to come on board through the course of the year and will also be introducing special fare deals with airlines soon.”

To boost travel from India, South African Tourism had recently launched its More and More campaign, followed by a four-city roadshow, SATTE (South Asia’s Travel & Tourism Exchange) 2022. In addition, two months ago the country held a consumer activation (exhibition) in Mumbai. “We are witnessing an uptick in demand for the destination (South Africa). Over 7,000 visas have been issued from Delhi and Mumbai until now this year,” she said.

Focus on film and MICE tourism

Nkani noted that for South African Tourism film and MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) tourism are the segments in focus this year.

“In fact, in the last three to five months, we have seen huge interest from film production companies. We have been in talks with a couple of big banners in India to launch South Africa on the silver screen, either by way of Bollywood movies, web series or advertisement shoots. We look at assisting our partners with securing easy shoot permits as well as advantageous and competitive pricing,” she said.

With corporate travel also seeing a recovery after the COVID-19 impact over the last two years, Nkani pointed out that they have multiple groups travelling to South Africa in the next quarter. “We have also been receiving long lead enquiries from group sizes varying from 2,000 to 4,000.

Additionally, we anticipate bookings from the financial, information technology, beauty, insurance, coal and mining, pharmaceutical, entertainment and sporting sectors in India.”

She added that the target segments for South Africa in terms of travellers coming from India are experience-seeking millennials, high net-worth individuals and the family-oriented middle class. “These are anticipated to be the driving force behind travel recovery. We also expect to see a rise in FITs (free independent travellers), drivecations, honeymooners and travellers from niche communities.”

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Nkani said, “South Africa has no restrictions for tourists. The country never closed its doors to Indian travellers during the pandemic. Travellers from India to South Africa will be required to produce either a fully vaccinated certificate or a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test not older than 72 hours from the time of departure,” she added.

The South African Tourism official also shared information about visa offerings for Indians. “We are currently processing Indian tourist and business visas on priority. At present, travellers can apply via VFS (Visa Facilitation Services) or can directly apply online for our e-visas, which are being piloted in India.”

She added that stamped passports are available within seven working days or less from the date of application. “There is no visa fee for Indian nationals. However, the VFS logistics fee to process visas from Mumbai and Delhi is Rs 2,040, and Rs 2,301 to process visas from Gurgaon, Jaipur, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bengaluru and Goa,” Nkani said.

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Home Affairs gets R400 million network upgrade to end “the System is Offline”

My Broadband - 27 May 2022

The State IT Agency (Sita) is spending R400 million revamping Home Affairs’ whole network, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced in his budget vote speech.

Sita recently finished the procurement process and would complete the revamp in the third quarter of this financial year, Motsoaledi said.

The Home Affairs minister acknowledged that system downtime is a primary reason for long queues in front of his department’s offices.

“It is painful and generates a lot of anger to visit a Home Affairs office very early in the morning and just stand there and wait for hours on end because all systems are down,” said Motsoaledi.

“It is very frustrating, to say the least.”

Motsoaledi said many members of the public believe the department’s computers don’t work.

Last year the minister ignited a war of words with Sita when he told Parliament that Sita was the cause of Home Affairs’ problems and that he would go to the private sector for help with their IT system.

Sita hit back and said Home Affairs was spending the bare minimum on its IT services.

It was paying for a bronze-tier product and expecting platinum-level service, Sita stated.

The department and Sita have since made peace, and are working together to solve Home Affairs’ problems.

Home Affairs officer taking a digital fingerprint

To address the headache of perennial system downtime, Sita has doubled Home Affairs’ Internet capacity and introduced three failovers in Tshwane (Pretoria), Cape Town, and eThekwini (Durban).

“This will ensure that if any of the network is down, there will be two to support our services,” Motsoaledi stated.

Sita has also implemented a software-defined network for Home Affairs, which the minister promised will increase bandwidth to their applications.

In addition, Sita has finalised its cybersecurity procurement plan for Home Affairs’ IT infrastructure.

This will be implemented during the current financial year once law enforcement agencies approve it.

Overall, Sita has committed almost a billion rand to IT infrastructure supporting government departments.

“We know that the Department of Home Affairs will be one of the major beneficiaries,” said Motsoaledi.

His department has installed 136 new routers and 150 switches across 136 offices.

“We still need to install 112 routers and 68 switches which have already been bought.”

Bringing in experts from banks

Motsoaledi also revealed that they are bringing on eight IT engineers from “a leading bank” to help stabilise its network.

“We wish to confess that whenever our systems are down, we stand in awe of the banks which always seem to be having a stable IT network,” the minister stated.

“We ask ourselves how do they achieve that?”

The engineers have been vetted and will soon begin at Home Affairs.

“We believe that the partnerships with the banks will rapidly reduce the skills deficit and assist the Department to improve and maintain system uptime,” said Motsoaledi.

Standard Bank, Absa, FNB, Nedbank, Discovery Bank, and Investec offer smart ID and passport services at selected branches.

Motsoaledi previously said the partnership would expand to more bank branches and that banks would start offering more Home Affairs services.

However, this did not work out as planned.

“The banks are worried of reputational damage that our system downtime would cause them,” said Motsoaledi.

“Remember that for them to offer Home Affairs services, they need to verify the details of the client by using our system. If there is downtime, the banks also get stuck,” he explained.

“We believe that as soon as their own engineers have helped us to increase system uptime, the banks will cheerfully open their doors for Home Affairs services.”

 

 

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Home Affairs may overhaul immigration system

Motsoaledi said this when he tabled the department’s Budget Vote priorities during a mini plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

 

Devdiscourse   : 27-05-2022

 

Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has hinted that the department has decided to overhaul its immigration system and that details of this will soon be announced.

Motsoaledi said this when he tabled the department's Budget Vote priorities during a mini plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

"…Another elephant in the room is the problem of immigration. I don't have to outline what is taking place in our country about this problem. It is a crisis we are all well aware of," he said.

This following a recent rise in tensions between South African citizens and foreign nationals in several communities, with the main issue being unhappiness with undocumented immigrants taking up economic activities, while others have been fingered to be contributing to crime.

"For today, it will suffice to say we have decided on a complete overhaul of the immigration system of the country.

"Complete overhaul means exactly that. Work in this regard is well underway and we will soon unveil it."

Border Management Authority being capacitated

Motsoaledi said, meanwhile, that the much-anticipated Border Management Authority was being implemented.

"We have long conceded to the problem of porous borders in our country. You are aware that the implementation of the newly-established Border Management Authority is well underway," he said.

He said the Commissioner and his two Deputies are hard at work to establish the structure.

"Recruitment of first cohort of Border Guards has been completed and they will be brought in next week for onboarding, which includes an orientation programme and deployment to the selected areas of the borderline which are known to be problematic."

He said it is hoped that this cohort will be officially launched in the first days of the next quarter.

Tackling corruption

Motsoaledi said a Counter Corruption Unit, established just under a year ago, has in a short period of time made headway in tackling corruption.

The number of arrests of kingpins and syndicates speaks for itself, said the Minister.

About 60% of the cases Counter Corruption is dealing with have to do with immigration issues, especially matters of permitting, which is a further testimony on why there is a need to completely overhaul the immigration system of the country.

"Let me inform you that in the coming weeks we will continue to arrest more and more people, both foreign nationals and South Africans involved in passports fraud and other forms of identity theft as well as corruption.

"Since the arrest of the Pakistani kingpin of passports fraud on 24 March this year, the Counter Corruption unit cannot find time to rest.

South Africans from all walks of life, including members of Parliament are reporting to them acts of fraud and corruption on a daily basis.

"This is heart-warming and indicates that our people are tired of corruption. We shall root it out without fear, favour or prejudice and we promise never to be intimidated or derailed by anybody."

Motsoaledi said the department was adding 12 new staff members to the Counter Corruption unit. These will include analysts, researchers and investigators

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Aaron Motsoaledi reveals Home Affairs to open offices in malls

IOL -27 May  2022

Cape Town - Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has announced the department would open offices in shopping malls across the country to take pressure off other offices.

Motsoaledi told Parliament on Tuesday the project would start with Menlyn Mall in Pretoria and the equipment would be installed in September.

This is one of the interventions the government is implementing ahead of building 15 new offices in different parts of the country.

He said the opening of the offices in the shopping malls would come as an important intervention.

The department will also be hiring more staff members to beef up their front-line service points after National Treasury gave it more than R200 million to do so.

Motsoaledi said there were a number of interventions they would implement to jack up the Department of Home Affairs.

He said they intended to overhaul the immigration services because of the problems of fraud and corruption.

The arrest of the Pakistani syndicate in March was not the end as they planned to take on more syndicates.

“As an immediate relief measure we have been engaging several malls in our country.

“Operating offices at malls will obviate the problem of queuing in the sun or rain,” said Motsoaledi.

“We will start with Menlyn in Pretoria, Cresta Mall and Southgate Mall in Joburg, the Pavillion in eThekwini and Tygervalley Mall in Cape Town,” he said.

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“Since the malls have to move tenants around to make way for Home Affairs we will install our equipment in the malls around September this year.

“We shall start with Menlyn Mall in Pretoria and then roll out to the rest of the country,” said Motsoaledi.

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