Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
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No ATMs air side. I've screwed up once, in this respect, leaving me struggling for cash in Harare! The good news is:
- If you have a passport that gives you visa free entry to South Africa
- You're not arriving with all the long haul flights, early in the morning
- And you have time to spare
- Then immigration is pretty quick, so you can enter SA (landside) and get your cash, almost as quickly as going through the transfer terminal (as the OP found).
I don't know why JNB is so bad. SA needs reserves of foreign currency as much as the next (and every other) country; having air side cash machines, along with currency exchange, must surely be a good thing for SA?