Botswana limits emergency travel documents

Imogen Vollenhoven
12 April 2013

The Department of Home Affairs has announced today that the Government of Botswana will no longer accept emergency travel documents for routine visits to the country. 

The Botswana Immigration Department said travel documents will be limited to emergency situations only.  

Department of Home Affairs Spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said the use of emergency travel documents will be limited only to bona-fide emergency situations, which must be supported by documents to prove which will then allow such visitors to their country.

Mamoepa added that the department of home affairs calls on South Africans that wish to travel to Botswana, to make the necessary arrangements to acquire travel documents that will enable them to enter Botswana without any hindrance.

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