allowing people to postpone trips back. there will be some people who will say, i m going to go and stay in a third country for ten days and launder my south african stasis which is perfectly legal, it is all entirely up to people. if you are booked to travel, and there will be tens of thousands of people who were looking forward to an escape, i m afraid it s a difficult one. if you have booked a flight only and the flight goes ahead, you will not get your money back but you might be able to postpone it. if you have a proper package holiday booked, you should get that fully refunded. from the travel industry point of view, what a disaster. this isjust d ja vu, all over again, as they say. it takes us back almost a year to when south africa and the beta variant led to a ban from south africa. it has only been off of the red list for the past six weeks or so. always