The Royal Commonwealth Society, with its supporting partners, visited 10 Downing Street to submit a public petition on restoring visa-free travel for South Africans visiting the UK. The business and diaspora-backed campaign received positive support with 12,000 signatures from people across the UK and South Africa.
Since 2008, South Africans visiting the UK have been subject to expensive visa requirements which discourage them making the trip. The cost of such a visa has upset many South Africans that need to visit the UK for business, to see family, or even for a holiday.
Comments recorded during the campaign highlight the levels of frustration:
Nick from Johannesburg said: “I own multiple businesses in the U.K. Having to send my staff over for meetings and business training has become a hassle. It is unreasonable that a modern South Africa, that is part of the Commonwealth, has these restrictions.”
Andrew from Port Elizabeth told us: “I need to travel to the UK for business reasons soon, and these visa restrictions make things really difficult.”
Lynette from Potchefstroom explained: “We lived in the UK for two years. I studied there. We have friends in the UK. We would like to visit them more often. Visa regulations, the price, and the effort of traveling to Johannesburg for visa applications makes it difficult to travel to the UK.”
Sean from Oudtshoom remarked: “I am a travel agent and business has dropped since we needed visas.”
Pretty dumb that South Africans can go to Ireland visa free but not England
Jackson Perry
>tell my mum I'm coming home over because I really need to study >Today I have to get the weekly shop, mow the grass, clean the bathroom and toilet, cook tea for everyone and pick up and drop off my sister from badminton
Ahhhh yes
Joshua Peterson
post pics of sister depending on her age
John Evans
might finger your sister after our baddy game
Elijah Cruz
>no edition
Fuck right off
Oliver Reed
Why do they shart in the mart?
Ayden Morales
its the irish who are stupid for not discouraging shitbag south africans from visiting
Nathan White
Best place to find qt Brit bois?
Justin Torres
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Brody Fisher
Off to badminton in a bit, made my virgin brother give me a lift haha, see him eyeing me up sometimes.
Why? Countries normally don't impose strict visa conditions if they don't have problems with immigrants and tourists from that country
Andrew Robinson
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Logan Hall
When's the last time you heard of South Africans causing problems in any of the countries where they can travel to visa free?
Austin Hall
Past month I've been so in pain and didn't want to see a dentist. Been rotating between paracetamol, ibuprofen, co-codamol, nurofen plus and somewhat aspirin and a bit of weed. The few hours without pain are bliss. Makes me really appreciate things like food and drink. On the other hand, makes me wonder, why in the fuck is the most painful thing in your mouth, where you can't do anything without help. DUDE evolution LMAO
Adrian Lee
How come terrorists in the UK never just get guns off the dark web
Joshua Nelson
im a BIG MAN BUT IM NOT FIRTY hold tight stormthy you wanna get murky your breaf thtinks just shut up your breaf thtinks just shut up
Jose Thompson
why don't you go to the dentist you complete mong
Austin Ortiz
Go to the dentist you cuckboi
Jonathan Perez
Found a lump lads
Logan Gray
Have you ever posted a picture of your face to 4chunks?
Robert Stewart
whack it
Bentley Stewart
The only reason I can muster for that guy posting with a British flag, constantly bashing Assad and refusing to believe the chemical attack was anything other than him, must literally be a paki who sympathizes with the terrorists Assad is fighting. What other earthly reason would anyone level headed have to just believe what America says about him and his millitary?
>MUH EXPENSIVE INTELLIGENCE
Gathered from who exactly? All the rebel groups in Syria who also also want Assad out? If anyone could give me one logical reason why Assad would knowingly allow his troops or allies to use chemical weapons against his enemies, I MIGHT consider changing my mind. But literally NO ONE is able to do that.
Isaiah Ward
That's a bit hot. Sorry, never had a brother I was attracted to.
Sebastian Brown
Brewing the smelliest poo my work place has ever seen. Had a large meast feast pizza last night and its been simmering all night. Topped it of with a Mexican chicken sandwich from greggs just there and will be serving it up momentarily.
Daniel Morales
Why would Assad use chemical weps in the midst of a very successful offensive and knowing all the negative attention it would bring down on him?
Jonathan Hall
Really don't care
Zachary Perez
I upvote anything posted by a Canadian, ngl.
Wyatt Hill
Will NOT be reading any further posts
Owen Bailey
Why would any of us know? I don't even read the news lmao
Ryder Martin
Where that Canadian artist at
Angel Howard
I work in a very small firm. How ballsy would it be to ask for an equity stake in lieu of salary?
Alexander Campbell
>leaving the house >talking to these shitty dentists/doctors who don't give a fuck about you This is one thing that Eastern Europe does better. At least they do become medicine men because they care about people.
The other day went into a pharmacy, asked about antibiotics and solutions to my problem. "Oh, I'm sorry you have to go to the out of hours emergency." Yeah, nah, I can pay, why is this country so messed up.
Hunter Collins
Hello Sargon
Colton Harris
once punched the gf in the mouth and one of her buck teeth embedded in my knuckle
Wyatt Long
Once when I was fucked.
>tfw it is saved somewhere, by someone...
Zachary Diaz
> im too thick to see a dentist > but this is somehow the country's fault
also you can't get antibiotics over the counter, so why bother going to the chemists at all? you thick cunt
Jacob Edwards
p normal if they're not rich enough to give u a pay rise
Carter Lopez
Anyone else listen to these rejects?
They're entertaining. You've got to give them that.
Christian Torres
>self diagnosing antibiotics
Just go back Pavel
Christopher Green
Boss is quite an awkward cunt, stutters a lot and literally just called me by his wife's name on the phone Can appreciate the fact I work for someone more of a social wreck than myself
Hudson Perez
Are you saying Pavel should take a plane?
Camden Turner
...
Blake Robinson
watching eric andre street skits compilation on youtube, hes funny lol
Samuel Jenkins
might join a powerleague team
Brayden Baker
>Implying I watch the hat incarnate
Hunter Cox
Chapo Trap House is way funnier and way more entertaining
Sebastian Jackson
Thoughts?
Nathaniel Scott
*This post was brought to you by the 'dit
Connor Williams
might join a powerbottom team
Connor Roberts
>calling eric andre reddit
Hello 'gag
Connor Hall
Can get behind this policy. Would we have to go to the primary schools for the meals or would they set up new canteens for non-students?
Joseph Wood
Don't you already have free meals? Jesus Christ! No wonder you're becoming so obese.
Christian Hughes
going to go have to piss in a cup to get my willy tested for the ol' STIs in about an hour
Charles Stewart
This.
Cooper Scott
I've met my Regional Supervisor 6 times, and everytime he was in a mad dash and looked like he had a hundred places to be today.
I've only ever met him to get vital work supplies, and once he did a checkup on me.
Bentley Thomas
gf says she wants to get into cuckolding and asked if I was okay watching her have sex with a black man. should I do it lads? never had sex before and this is probably as close as I'm going to get
Alexander Gutierrez
>every single comment on the ft is like this >People on the ft are much more educated We're fucked
Michael Hernandez
what do you watch? MDE? LOL!
Xavier Cruz
I've always liked him even before I knew he was Jewish
Jackson Lewis
>Eric 'bacon narwhal' Andre isn't Reddit
Wew
Evan Wood
he's right
we have absolutely fucked it
Jose Cox
We already have free school meals for younger kids which is a policy we LITERALLY got from Finland lmao you silly twat
Mugged yourself right off there you stupid cunt lmao aha silly twat ahahaha lol fucking monging mong aha x
Evan Watson
leaving the EU is the biggest british blunder since appeasing hitler
Jayden Flores
Is this Turkey's Northern Ireland?
William Martin
remember when everything was comfy and the UK was set to be the biggest economy in Europe within a couple of decades
>If anyone could give me one logical reason why Assad would knowingly allow his troops or allies to use chemical weapons against his enemies
This is such a weak argument and it keeps being used. There's many reasons why he would do so - he has Russia's backing so there's never going to be any Security Council action taking, the US have shown they won't have any major involvement against him and even more so now that the Trump administration is warming towards Russia, Assad is in a position of strength again and can afford to take some condemnation then you have all the usual reasons regimes use chemical weapons like spreading fear etc.
It's hilarious seeing people argue as if there's only binary choices between good/bad in the war when pretty much every side are horrendous people. You can accept that the Assad regime are tyrants while also arguing their regime brought some stability just like you can argue the 'rebels' (too broad a label for any meaningful discussion) are good for fighting someone who literally barrel bombs civilians but are also indiscriminately killing civilians and probably committing war crimes too. Don't even know why I bothered to write this post.
Wyatt Scott
Do it but then shag the black man up the arse before he has a chance to shag your gf
Sebastian Bailey
More like the biggest blunder since not allying Hitler
Jose Morgan
i bet u think rick and morty is 'reddit' too.. ur a contrarian who hates anything that go's mainstream
dumb hipster
Evan Moore
ahhh yes how shall we treat those who have achieved wealth through hard work and continuous effort throughout their lives
ahhhhhhhhh yes of course tax them to pay for the scum that havent never amounted to anything, refuse to work and subsist by leeching
Gabriel Cook
The final demise of the UK. Summarised well by these threads in fact. Uneducated xenophobic scroungers decide the fate of the country. What a mess. Rorkes are the death knell of the UK's prosperity, and Europe's maturity will allow them to sidestep us and leave us behind.
Dominic Hughes
the fucking STATE of 21st century geopolitics
Eli Rodriguez
gf just asked to get niggered while I watch
Ryder Reyes
nose is itchy
Jack Powell
Pretty much, just one look at the demographics of leave voters could tell you that. These are the type of people who end up getting scammed out of their life savings by Nigerians.
Christian Hughes
fucking cringe
Can just picture the little 18 year old rodent they've put in charge of that account
Dylan Morgan
This is an intriguing idea user, some kind of cuckold-rape-reversal
I will call it 'cuck amok!'
Brody Gray
>Import Pakis at a faster rate than everyone else >HDI literally lower than in slovenia >Government brags about how big the total economy is despite it having no positive effect on people's actual day to day life >Houses become most expensive in the world
Ahh yes love it
Easton Wilson
>posts a kike reaction gif irony at its finest
Anthony Foster
i am the niggest
Daniel Cruz
Some of the people who voted for Brexit were flawed, and the official campaign may have been flawed, but Brexit was ultimately the right decision.
The mainstream is intentionally obtuse about the EU.
Robert Peterson
grim
Matthew Peterson
*scratches it* *looks into your eyes*
Nathaniel Ortiz
got the day off
Josiah Ward
You do realise there's already free school meals for povvos, this is extending it to everyone else including the middle class
Think you've got the wrong end of the stick here
Dominic James
this banter has all the strength of a flump
jog on
Michael Rogers
aaaah yes thw ol' ringworm is back
Oliver Butler
>but Brexit was ultimately the right decision
convince us that brexit was the right decision, don't just say it was, tell us why and what the benefits are of leaving the european union
Austin Parker
They're children at schools you mong
William Murphy
in 50-60 years high immigration would have utterly destroyed any feasibility of a healthy economy
most likely scenario is that immigration will continue to rise anyway, but at least brexit has given a sliver of chance it wont, as opposed to absolute certainty it will
William Reed
SO WE DON'T 'AV TO BE RULED BY 'EM BUREAUCRATS O'ER IN BRUSSELS!
