-
Vehicles being processed at the Lebombo Border Post.
Border Management Authority (BMA) Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato says governments should urgently come up with means to reconstruct the destroyed borderline fence between Mozambique and South Africa in Lebombo.
He says the damaged fence has become a primary crossing point for illegal migrants and smugglers. Masiapato is at the Lebombo Border Post to monitor Easter holiday operations.
“What needs to be done, obviously, is that there has to be the conversation, and it is going on, by the way, at the political level. The Ministry of Home Affairs, the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, together with the Ministry of Defence, they are actually at work engaging on this particular aspect. We are very much hopeful that in no time there should be a political way forward on this, and there should be some kind of allocation on this, and ultimately the border fence will actually be constructed,” says Masiapato.
Easter Traffic | BMA cracks down on illegal crossings, slashes processing times:
