{"id":402,"date":"2020-10-01T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zulu.org.za\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:53:53","slug":"south-africa-open-international-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa is open for international travel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa opens its international borders | Thursday, 1 October 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nSouth African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today. While South Africa\u2019s borders will not be open to all countries for leisure travel, SA Tourism is delighted to welcome those visitors that are able to come to our country.\n\n \n\nThis follows President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s announcement last month that South Africa would be moving to alert level 1, thus opening up international borders for selected countries from 1 October 2020.\n\n \n\nSouth Africa has developed a risk categorisation model for different countries. This model classifies countries according to a scale of high, medium and low risk. High-risk countries are those with higher numbers of COVID-19 infections and reported deaths compared to South Africa. \u00a0Medium risk countries have a relatively equal number of infections and death toll to South Africa whilst low-risk countries have a lesser number of COVID-19 infections and the death toll in comparison to South Africa. All travellers coming into the country will need to supply a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) COVID test not older than 72 hours from the date of departure from their country. Travellers will also be screened for any COVID-19 symptoms and be required to provide proof of accommodation address, should they need to self-quarantine.\n\n \n\n\u201cWhile many of our key source markets feature in the high-risk category, meaning that they are not able to travel to South Africa for leisure purposes yet, the environment is fluid and changes constantly. We remain optimistic and encouraged by the gradual phased opening of our sector and we will monitor the changes regularly, as the country lists are reviewed every two weeks,\u201d says SA Tourism Chief Executive Officer, Mr Sisa Ntshona.\n\n \n\nAny person from a high-risk country, who wishes to undertake business travel into South Africa, may with effect from 1st October 2020, in writing apply to the Minister of Home Affairs and demonstrate reasons for their request to enter South Africa for business purposes. Such applications must be directed by email to: Covid19BusinessTravel@dha.gov.za<\/a>.\n\n \n\nAll travellers from African countries will be allowed to travel to South Africa and must possess relevant travel documents, a negative PCR test result and will also be screened for COVID-19 symptoms.\n\n \n\n\u201cWe are encouraged to see that travel is open for the rest of the continent. This follows global trends in changing traveller behaviour which is influenced by trust and confidence where travel starts domestically then regionally and ultimately internationally,\u201d concludes Ntshona.\n\n \n\nSouth Africa has put in place globally-benchmarked health and safety protocols which include the wearing of masks, washing of hands and maintaining social distancing.\n\n \n\n______________________________________________________________________________________\n\n \n\nFor more information and further updates on please visit www.southafrica.net<\/a> or\u00a0 https:\/\/www.gov.za\/Coronavirus<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa opens its international borders | Thursday, 1 October 2020 \u00a0 South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today. While South Africa\u2019s borders will not be open to all countries for leisure travel, SA Tourism is delighted to welcome those visitors that are able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSouth Africa Opens It's International Borders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Africa Opens It's International Borders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"KwaZulu-Natal Tourism & Travel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KZNTourism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TourismKZN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TourismKZN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/32786cf657a38721025b06d32bce9673\"},\"headline\":\"South Africa is open for international travel!\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\"},\"wordCount\":474,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Everyone is an explorer\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa Opens It's International Borders\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00\",\"description\":\"South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628,\"caption\":\"South Africa Opens It's International Borders\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"South Africa is open for international travel!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/\",\"name\":\"KwaZulu Natal - Zulu Kingdom\",\"description\":\"KwaZulu-Natal Tourism & Travel\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#organization\",\"name\":\"KwaZulu Natal - Zulu Kingdom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/cropped-cropped-new_icon.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/cropped-cropped-new_icon.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"KwaZulu Natal - Zulu Kingdom\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KZNTourism\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TourismKZN\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/32786cf657a38721025b06d32bce9673\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/937091d67326997ab68e972b13fc30e2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/937091d67326997ab68e972b13fc30e2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/author\/superadmin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"South Africa Opens It's International Borders","description":"South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"South Africa Opens It's International Borders","og_description":"South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today.","og_url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/","og_site_name":"KwaZulu-Natal Tourism & Travel","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KZNTourism","article_published_time":"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@TourismKZN","twitter_site":"@TourismKZN","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/32786cf657a38721025b06d32bce9673"},"headline":"South Africa is open for international travel!","datePublished":"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/"},"wordCount":474,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg","articleSection":["Everyone is an explorer"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/","url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/","name":"South Africa Opens It's International Borders","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-01T13:53:53+00:00","description":"South African Tourism (SA Tourism) welcomes the government\u2019s direction as South Africa opens its international borders today.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/SA_Opens_International_Borders.jpg","width":1200,"height":628,"caption":"South Africa Opens It's International Borders"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/south-africa-open-international-travel\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"South Africa is open for international travel!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#website","url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/","name":"KwaZulu Natal - Zulu Kingdom","description":"KwaZulu-Natal Tourism & Travel","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#organization","name":"KwaZulu Natal - Zulu Kingdom","url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/cropped-cropped-new_icon.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/cropped-cropped-new_icon.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"KwaZulu Natal - Zulu Kingdom"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KZNTourism","https:\/\/twitter.com\/TourismKZN"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/32786cf657a38721025b06d32bce9673","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/937091d67326997ab68e972b13fc30e2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/937091d67326997ab68e972b13fc30e2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/author\/superadmin\/"}]}},"modified_by":"admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitkzn-sa.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}