Maun, Namibia, this year, work permits
Hopefully this is a misguided rumor, however I have just read on another forum that the governments of Namibia and Botswana are not issuing work permits for flying any longer. According to the other post, the Botswana government met with the operators in Maun last week and told them they would no longer issue work permits to foreign pilots while there were unemployed pilots in Botswana. They then gave the operators a 4-page list of unemployed Botswana pilots. Have any of you heard this? Is it true? can one of you who's working there now ask if this is true. One pilot even said that his renewal was denied, another said his renewal was delayed 11 months. Again, I don't know how to confirm or deny this information. I did fill out a contact form for Sefofane asking them if could tell me about the work permit situation, but I don't know that they'll bother with responding to me. Thank you, Andy