What it’s like to be stuck in a ‘quarantine hotel’ when emigrating from South Africa MyBroadband5 April 2021 Subscribe Earlier this year, I decided to leave South Africa to live in the United Kingdom, in London. Flying to the United Kingdom from South Africa is particularly frustrating at this point, as despite its relatively low daily Covid-19 cases, South Africa has been placed on the UK’s “red list” of countries due to the “South African variant” prevalent amongst its infected. Not only does this make the paperwork of emigration more difficult, it also frustrates the process of booking a flight and making arrangements for when you arrive.