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Drivers coming into South Africa from Zimbabwe queue for up to five days as they await Covid testing before being allowed into the country.Image: Alex Patrick

Beitbridge chaos subsides as thousands of Zim residents re-enter SA

The brown-veined white butterfly migration across the country coincides with the annual migration of cross-border immigrants into SA. At Beitbridge, in Limpopo, the floating white wings intermingle with thousands of people coming back…

Twenty of SA’s land borders – which were closed in January due to a spike in Covid-19 cases – have officially been reopened followed the publication of a government gazette at the weekend.Image: Supplied

Lebombo border staff ‘overwhelmed and cannot cope’, queues for 25km

Truckers plead for help from government over gridlock at Mozambique border The Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations (Fesarta) and the South African Association of Freight Forwarders (SAAFF) have blamed the…

Twenty of SA’s land borders – which were closed in January due to a spike in Covid-19 cases – have officially been reopened followed the publication of a government gazette at the weekend.Image: Supplied

Zweli Mkhize called on to intervene urgently in Beitbridge backlogs

With several deaths already recorded at the Beitbridge border post, the transport and freight forwarding industries have called for urgent intervention saying “a humanitarian disaster is unfolding”. The industries said the situation was…

Twenty of SA’s land borders – which were closed in January due to a spike in Covid-19 cases – have officially been reopened followed the publication of a government gazette at the weekend.Image: Supplied

Five die while stuck in traffic at Beitbridge, with fears of more deaths

Five people have died in what has been described as the worst congestion in the history of the Beitbridge border post. Queues of trucks and other vehicles are reaching 20km in both directions at the Musina, Limpopo, border crossing — and…

Work has started alongside the Beitbridge border post with construction teams building the 1.8m-high fence which will span 20km on each side of the border post between SA from Zimbabwe. Image: Supplied.

SA’s 40km Zimbabwe border fence goes ahead despite lockdown

Construction of the new 40km fence at the Beitbridge border post is going ahead despite the 21-day national lockdown which began on Friday. The fence, announced by public works and infrastructure minister Patricia de Lille just over a…