The Department of Home Affairs will extend operating hours at selected ports of entry, deploy additional personnel and extra resources to boost service delivery during the festive season. This is according to the department’s Director-General,...
Two attempts to bribe SARS officials to release goods stopped at border posts this week were thwarted and the suspects arrested‚ the South African Revenue Service has revealed. It said that on Tuesday members of the SARS Tactical Intervention Unit...
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on Tuesday announced measures to improve movement between the Kingdom of Lesotho and South Africa. This, according to the department, followed bilateral negotiations between the Ministers of Home Affairs of the...
Parliament’s Peace and Security cluster of committees will from Tuesday conduct oversight visits to assess safeguarding of the country’s borders in KwaZulu-Natal. The committee, which will focus on land, maritime and air borders, is expected to be...
An increasing problem at the border town of Chirundu, where the main highway linking Harare with Lusaka crosses the Zambezi River over a large road bridge, is the environmental degradation and the effect on the wildlife in the region. Almost all...
A stakeholder workshop in Komatipoort hosted by the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI), discussed the issues being experienced by users on the corridor with the introduction of the new customs procedures for goods in transit through...
Maputo: The Mozambican government intends to invest 400 million US dollars in the full rehabilitation of the road from the port of Beira to Machipanda, on the border with Zimbabwe. The Minister of Public Works, Cadmiel Muthemba, announced in Beira...
Some report back on the Chirundu situation by an operator: “We travelled through the border on Sunday afternoon and the situation was chaotic. The queue extended for approx. 4.8km from the Customs Gate out of town past what is known as the RAM...
The Trade Hub, in collaboration with Kenya’s Ministry of East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade held Kenya’s first National Conference on the Performance of Joint Border Committees...
