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Call to scrap “apartheid-era” passport control with Lesotho
['Sechaba Mokhethi']
GroundUp News
The group wants the 1963 rule that requires passports for travel between Lesotho and South Africa scrapped.
Section Two says the passport rule was introduced by the apartheid government to control the movement of black people and to monitor political activity.
Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa.
The group says the Lesotho passport offices face frequent system failures and long backlogs, leaving many people without travel documents for months.
The organisation wants South Africa and Lesotho to replace passport controls with a system that allows people to cross using national identity documents.