SA suspends travel requirements for children

SOUTH AFRICA has suspended part of its new immigration regulation requiring parents or adults travelling with children from or to that country to produce affidavits and birth certificates, albeit temporarily.

According to media reports from the neighbouring country, a requirement for unabridged birth certificates and affidavits authorising permission to travel with children has been postponed until June 2015.

Adults travelling with children had to produce affidavits from parents proving permission for the children to travel, in what authorities said was a way of fighting child trafficking.

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