Pretoria - American singer Puff Johnson is expected to be deported to the US on Friday after being denied entry into South Africa.
Home Affairs Director General Mkuseli Apleni on Friday said Johnson had boarded a flight to South Africa on Thursday night despite being identified as "undesirable" by the department's Advanced Passenger Process (APP).
The APP system, which is linked to Interpol, checks passengers against a list of prohibited passengers before they board the aircraft at their respective foreign countries.
"This information was passed on to Delta Airlines with a specific request that she not be allowed to board the flight. However, Delta Airlines chose to ignore our request and allowed her to board the flight," he said, adding that the airline has been fine R10 000.
When the singer arrived at OR Tambo International Airport, Home Affairs' Movement Control System, which has security features which allows it to spot prohibited passengers, once again identified Johnson as an undesirable visitor and she was denied entry into South Africa.
Apleni explained that Johnson was declared undesirable because she had spent a year in South Africa illegally without the necessary documentation and was deported to the US earlier in the year.
She will be deported for a second time on Friday night and will remain an undesirable until the matter of her having the required documents to be in South Africa is resolved, Apleni added.
