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Fin24 reports that according to Business Leadership SA (BLSA), a major overhaul of SA’s visa regime is needed and President Cyril Ramaphosa should address the issue during his upcoming investment conference.
"The president could use the opportunity to announce a credible intervention to fix the visa mess. That would go far to addressing one of the major sources of a lack of confidence in South Africa's investment case," the BLSA pointed out in its latest newsletter. Visa administration problems at the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) are unacceptable and a serious impediment to the SA economy, according to BLSA. The slow processing of applications for work visas and extensions of existing ones created an "impossible situation" for companies doing business or wanting to do business in SA, the BLSA said on Monday. The organisation estimates that more than 50,000 foreigners working in SA face losing their status when their visas expire, purely because the DHA has been unable to process their applications in time. It points out that SA has significant deficits in areas like technical skills. "We need to give international companies the confidence to plan on investments here without the fear that they will simply be unable to send their people because we cannot manage our bureaucracy," the BLSA noted. Next week, the president will be hosting the fifth South Africa Investment Conference, which is aimed to attract foreign investment to the country.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard compiled by Carin Smith at Fin24
- Read too, Caught up in Home Affairs disfunction, at Moneyweb
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