The Home Affairs' Movement Control System (MCS) has from Thursday to Sunday, 21 to 24 April 2011 recorded 468 126 incoming and outgoing travellers. This includes a total of 173 657 arrivals and 294 469 departures over the Easter weekend.
Ports of entry which recorded the highest traveller volumes are:
| Port of entry | Arrivals | Departures | Total |
| OR Tambo International Airport | 34 739 | 48 726 | 83 465 |
| Beit Bridge | 16 912 | 41 989 |
58 901 |
| Lebombo | 13 236 | 34 071 | 47 307 |
| Maseru Bridge | 17 169 | 27 962 | 45 131 |
| Fiksburg | 16 574 | 28 369 | 44 943 |
| Oshoek | 12 851 | 19 834 | 32 685 |
As more people return from their Easter holidays, the department's immigration officers will continue to deliver immigration services at all ports of entry across the country to meet the demand occasioned by an increase in traveller volumes.
Contingency measures will include the deployment of additional staff to high volume ports of entry while the Lebombo, Oshoek and Groblersburg Ports of Entry will operate on a 24 hour basis until 3 May 2011.
Minister of Home Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma expresses the conviction that all travellers entering or departing from South Africa will be processed expeditiously by our immigration officials so they can return to their homes following their Easter holidays.
For more information contact:
Manusha Pillai
Cell: 082 389 3587
