Travel companies 'harming SA' with visa row - Gigaba

02 August 2015 - 02:00
By MARVIN MEINTJIES

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says travel and tourism agencies have done more harm to themselves and the country by not working with his department. Speaking to the Sunday Times in London, where he was opening a new visa centre operated by VFS, Gigaba said the travel and tourism industry had spurned several opportunities to make inputs on how to ease the burden imposed on travellers by the new immigration regulations and appeared to be stuck in a "zero-sum game" mindset.

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