South Africa: Local Address Disclosures on Arrival No Longer Necessary in Joburg

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | March 12th, 2008 | Trackback

Beginning March 17, visitors arriving at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg will not have to provide immigration officials with their address in South Africa, a precaution implemented because of serious crimes committed against arriving passengers who have been reportedly followed to their destination and robbed. Such incidents have suggested that local addresses and declarations of cash in possession, required to enter the country, have been passed on to criminals who then ambush the visitors when they arrive at their hotels. Police authorities claim that their investigations into numerous cases revealed no such connection, but the March 7 robbery of six Americans when they arrived at their guesthouse bore all the earmarks of such an inside job. The immigration and customs policy change suggests that authorities concede this could be a cause of such crimes.

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