🇿🇦 South Africa

Southern AfricaCapital PretoriaZAREnglish, Afrikaans
Advisory
Level 2
Exercise increased caution · State Dept ↗
as of 2025-08-11
Weather
60°F / 16°C
Overcast · H 61° L 56°
Currency
ZAR
16.36 per $1
Entry
Requirements
Standing intel: weather, currency & advisory · updated May 28, 2026

What’s moving in South Africa

200 stories · last 90 days
The Latest
Safari & Africa

Greater Kruger: A Detour Gets the Green Light, a New Lodge Brand Arrives

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has approved a privately funded, community-built bypass around the April washout on the R531 near Hoedspruit, restoring a…

Jul 24
Safari & Africa

SA's New Border Declaration Is Already Tripping Up Arrivals

Since July 1, every entry point into South Africa has required travellers to file an electronic declaration before arrival — and operators say the rollout is…

Jul 24
Safari & Africa

Diesel Set to Climb Again, Squeezing Safari Vehicle Fleets

South Africa's repo rate held steady this week, but the relief is being eaten by fuel costs: Brent crude has climbed from around $72 to over $90 a barrel on…

Jul 24
Safari & Africa

Bontebok National Park Reopens in Phases From August 1

SANParks will begin reopening Bontebok National Park near Swellendam on August 1, roughly three months after May's flood damage forced its closure. Six…

Jul 24
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This week
Plettenberg Bay enters peak shark season without spotter coverageJul 23
SA layers on new entry compliance: Ebola screening, digital border declarationsJul 23
Pilanesberg quadruples international entry fees as closure warning loomsJul 23
Mzimkulu Vulture Hide confirms 1 August reopening — lift holds nowJul 22
Record El Niño and a tariff deadline in nine days: twin macro pressures on lodge economicsJul 22
Leadership transitions at Kruger Gate operator and Anantara Bazaruto open relationship-reset windowsJul 22
South Africa overhauled entry requirements — update pre-trip docs todayJul 22
Taj opens first African bush lodge in Balule — two more to followJul 22
Taj opens first Greater Kruger lodge; CemAir restores Johannesburg–Richards Bay twice daily from NovemberJul 21
Skukuza warehouse fire destroys Kruger's reserve stock of generators, geysers and cablingJul 21
US closes routine visa processing at Windhoek, Harare, Lusaka, Maputo and others—August 1 cutoverJul 21
World Bank approves $1.5bn South Africa package; Durban port queue has dropped from 17 ships to sixJul 21
Brent at $90 raises charter surcharge flags; Skukuza fire depletes park-wide infrastructure reservesJul 20
CemAir restores Johannesburg–Richards Bay from 1 November; lion management uncertainty clouds the same KZN clusterJul 20
Taj Hotels opens first African wildlife lodge in Balule; two more Greater Kruger properties imminentJul 20
New keys in Greater Kruger and the Western Cape; Mozambique's island resort still needs a partnerJul 19
Namibia restocks its conservancies as Kruger releases six years of elephant dataJul 19
SARS's new arrival declaration is catching guests off guardJul 19
Orpen Gate's detour is open — the road behind it is still brokenJul 19
Bontebok reopens in phases, riverside units stay darkJul 18
Orpen detour opens the road, elephant data closes the gapJul 18
Taj enters the Greater Kruger safari marketJul 18
SARS e-declaration still needs a manual briefing stepJul 18
Afrophobia unrest draws tourism-sector concernJul 18
This month
New Kruger inventory opens while Mozambique's island resort still needs a buyerJul 17
Developments from the last 90 days · Standing intel from REST Countries, Open-Meteo, Exchange Rate API & the U.S. State Department