World Cup visitors are set to get preferential treatment in South Africa and their movement will be simplified with free visas.
With the FIFA World Cup fever spreading around the globe, the host country South Africa is on track to issue free visas to football fans and process the thousands of visitors expected in the country next month according to Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
While addressing the Joint Committees on the State of Readiness for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the Minister said FIFA employees were being awarded visas and that as of Sunday the department had issued 3500 work permits.
Those with World Cup tickets are set to be awarded free visas and dedicated lanes are being set aside for those going to the tournament. Specific branded lanes are in the process of being set up at King Shaka in Durban, Cape Town International Airport and at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. FIFA delegations and teams are set to be given priority treatment, Dlamini-Zuma told BuaNEWS.
The department was also training volunteers to work at the airports in assisting visitors.
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