Botha Msila and Alvin Zhakata celebrate their arrival at the Kenya border post on their way to the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. What has been a milestone journey of hitchhiking 10000km from Cape Town to Egypt by a popular South African soccer fan has been thrown into disarray after he was denied entry into Ethiopia. I thought that as I am an African, I don’t need a visa to get into another African country,” said Msila. He had tried to call the South African embassy in Kenya but nobody answered. “Unfortunately, if it’s a case of being denied a visa, there's very little South Africa can do.

Source: Ethiopian News June 14, 2019 06:00 UTC