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28 Apr 2011

The Home Affairs' Movement Control System (MCS) has from Thursday to Sunday, 21 to 24 April 2011 recorded 468 126 incoming and outgoing travellers. This includes a total of 173 657 arrivals and 294 469 departures over the Easter weekend.

Ports of entry which recorded the highest traveller volumes are:

Port of entry	Arrivals	Departures	Total
OR Tambo International Airport	34 739	48 726	83 465
Beit Bridge	16 912	41 989	58 901
Lebombo	13 236	34 071	47 307
Maseru Bridge	17 169	27 962	45 131
Fiksburg	16 574	28 369	44 943
Oshoek	12 851	19 834	32 685

As more people return from their Easter holidays, the department's immigration officers will continue to deliver immigration services at all ports of entry across the country to meet the demand occasioned by an increase in traveller volumes.

Contingency measures will include the deployment of additional staff to high volume ports of entry while the Lebombo, Oshoek and Groblersburg Ports of Entry will operate on a 24 hour basis until 3 May 2011.

Minister of Home Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma expresses the conviction that all travellers entering or departing from South Africa will be processed expeditiously by our immigration officials so they can return to their homes following their Easter holidays.

For more information contact:
Manusha Pillai
Cell: 082 389 3587

Issued by: Department of Home Affairs
28 Apr 2011

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