With SA still languishing on the UK’s travel red list, the DA have demanded that tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu act urgently.

UK’s transport head Grant Shapps announced that the UK will ditch its traffic light system on Friday, however SA remains on the ‘red list’.

Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, went missing in Clapham, south London, earlier this year in March.

Though South Africans are currently banned from entering the United Kingdom, British Airways appears set to resume flights to South Africa at the end of June.

Uber drivers are ‘workers’ who should receive a minimum wage, holiday pay and other employee protections the UK Supreme Court ruled in an “unanimous and emphatic victory” for drivers on Friday.

Travellers from red-list destinations face fines of up to £4,000 if their UK quarantine hotel stay was not booked before their arrival.

Anyone travelling to the UK from South Africa will be required to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.

Anyone from Southern Africa or who has been here within 10 days will be refused entry.

It’s understood that ‘more cases’ of the South African variant of COVID-19 have been discovered in the UK – despite the lack of an official announcement.

Vietnam on Tuesday suspended flights from countries with cases of the mutated variants.

The new coronavirus strain could be 70% more transmissible, public health officials say, as the UK braces for a stricter lockdown.

Hubs in the UK are starting the rollout by vaccinating the over-80s and some health and care staff.

‘The Church of the Four Hundred Rabbits’ now needs a congregation

Implementation of another month-long lockdown in the UK has forced several airlines to cancel flights to South Africa.