The two main justifications for adding chips to passports are that they improve security at border crossings and speed up immigration procedures. Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.
" You'd better go to the passport office" or " You'd better report that to the police" , maybe if it was stolen by someone and you saw the person running.
The government says it will not apply to migrants who came into the country before it was issued or to people who present themselves at legal ports of entry into the U.S. 10 Second Trivia.
Many, many countries have banned travel from South Africa, or have placed heavy restrictions such as quarantines at hotels for people arriving from there.
The country has also detected several cases of a new potentially more contagious variant of COVID-19 prompting the government to ban entry for travelers through the end of the month.