{"id":470546,"date":"2021-02-24T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=470546"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:44:01","slug":"how-the-proposed-remote-working-visa-for-south-africa-would-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/470546\/how-the-proposed-remote-working-visa-for-south-africa-would-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How the proposed ‘remote working’ visa for South Africa would work"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Western Cape provincial government will engage with both president Cyril Ramaphosa and Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi about the introduction of a \u2018Remote Working Visa\u2019<\/a><\/strong> for South Africa.<\/p>\n

The visa is aimed at attracting ‘digital nomads’ – people who will live in and work remotely from cities such as Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Visas for digital nomads are travel permits that legalise<\/a> <\/strong>the status of travelling professionals. Like tourist visas, they are easy to obtain and do not require long paperwork and a work contract. However, they allow for longer stays.<\/p>\n

The city’s mayoral committee member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, James Vos, said with people working from home during the pandemic, the digital nomads concept has become a much-needed escape and great opportunity to take work on a holiday.<\/p>\n

“We are seeing innovation within the tourism sector to accommodate the changed behaviour of remote working by offering affordable long-term stays, including other benefits required to work remotely and we will expand this message through the broad range of products and businesses who can use a leg up in this challenging time.<\/p>\n

“An abundance of natural beauty and wide-open spaces makes Cape Town an ideal location to live and work with solid fibre infrastructure and top-class hospitality services and products.”<\/p>\n

Vos said that the visa will be targeted at workers who are looking to end ‘work from home boredom’ and ‘Zoom fatigue’.<\/p>\n

He added that cities such as Cape Town are able to offer \u2018workations\u2019 where people can a new remote office for a day or months at a time.<\/p>\n

“Digital nomads are a new kind of tourist that will benefit our visitor economy. To expand on this opportunity, South Africa urgently needs a Remote Working Visa.”<\/p>\n

“We have everything it takes to be the best remote working location in the world only if we make it easier for people to travel to South Africa.”<\/p>\n

Vos said that many leading tourism destinations in the world have a type of Remote Working Visa already. “We should have one too.”<\/p>\n

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Read: Port Elizabeth is now Gqeberha \u2013 and other name changes for towns and airports in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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