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Both countries have entered into an agreement on a visa waiver regime for holders of ordinary passports, according to sources privy to the information
The governments of Ghana and South Africa have reached a visa waiver agreement to allow citizens of both countries to travel visa-free. Both countries have entered into an agreement on a visa waiver regime for holders of ordinary passports, according to sources privy to the information.
The advisory says that travelers can transit through, depart from, and stay in the territory of both countries for a cumulative period of up to 90 days without recourse to work. The agreement will take effect from 1 November. South Africa also reached a similar agreement with Kenya in January.
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South Africa is Africa’s second-largest economy, after Nigeria in Africa. However, the two African giants have no such visa waiver agreement. There is also no indication that such an agreement is in the anvil between both countries. Amidst these developments of visa-free travel, there are growing incidents of jingoism in some of the African countries. South Africa is one such country mostly on account of the practice of people from other countries engaging in work and offering cheap labor to the detriment of the local population.
