South African Passport

[skylee]

I read this magazine on my way home today and I just wonder how true this statement/comment (page 35) is -

拿着南非護照，感覺去很多國家都會被留難，往哪裏都要花幾個星期甚至幾個月辦簽證，有時甚至要特意回南非申請。

[HedgePig]

Hello skylee

That article is about the difficulty of using a South African passport, right? (IMy Chinese isn't good enough to fully understand that but I think I got the gist of it with the help of google.)

A South African passport holder certainly needs visas for many more countries than a Britsh/EU/American/Australian/Japanese/Singaporean/HK passport holder would but I don't think it's any worse than for citizens of many other developing or third world countries. I wonder if the article is referring to the apartheid years? Prior to about 1995, there were many countries that simply wouldn't let South Africans enter at all - most African countries and many Asian countries included.