As South Africa enters lockdown level 4 on May 1, movement between provinces, metropolitan areas and districts is still prohibited, with a few exceptions, as laid out in the government’s risk-adjusted strategy regulations.
Workers who have a permit to perform an essential or permitted service, and who have to commute to and from work on a daily basis, will be allowed to do so.
Travel to attend a funeral is allowed for a spouse or partner, child, child-in-law, parent, sibling, or grandparent of the deceased. The transportation of mortal remains is also permitted.
Learners who have to commute to and from school or higher education institutions on a daily basis during periods when those institutions are permitted to operate, will be allowed to travel as necessary.
Any person who was not in their place of residence or work before the lockdown began and who could not travel between provinces during the lockdown will be permitted, on a once-off basis, to return to their places of residence or work, and will be required to stay in such place until the end of alert level 4.
Limited domestic air travel will only be permitted at level 3, so any permitted inter-provincial movement during level 4 will be road travel.
South Africa’s borders remain closed.
