Two island holiday destinations, Thailand and Mauritius, as well as the Netherlands, are now open to South African citizens again, with only some restrictions set in place.
Ireland has dropped the mandatory quarantine policy for travellers coming from countries on their high-risk list, which has opened up a bit of a loophole.
Last week, the UK announced that South Africa would remain on its travel ‘red list’. The reasoning doesn’t hold up under basic scrutiny.
There’s a scheduled change for the UK’s “traffic light” system pending, and it could spell great news for South Africans who want to travel to and from the UK.
South Africa’s economy is losing out on millions of rands every day that the country remains on the UK’s ‘red list’.