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Cross-border contraband and drug smuggling drop in February
South Africa’s first line of border protection in the form of 15 companies of mostly infantry soldiers deployed along just on ...
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Ever wonder why Africa’s borders appear so strange?
Most of these artificial borders trace back to the 1884-1885 Berlin ... powers carved up the continent among themselves with no African nations invited or represented. In this visual explainer ...
The Citizen15d
SA border crisis: Police commissioner had to ‘beg’ for return of 70 stolen cars in another country
The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (Saps), General Fannie Masemola, has called on the country’s ...
The Citizen4d
SANDF budget constraints: Not enough soldiers at the border, reserves getting older
Reserve Force are getting older as no recruitment has been done in the past five to six years. The Reserve Force Council (RFC) briefed the parliamentary portfolio committee on defence on Friday. The ...
MercoPress3y
Brazil closes borders on six African countries due to Omicron variant
Passengers who have been in the past two weeks in South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe will no longer be admitted into Brazil, pending further notice.
The South African on MSN6d
Another Zimbabwean man caught with explosives at the border
South African border authorities have arrested a suspect attempting to smuggle explosives worth R600 000 through the Beitbridge border.
IT-Online5d
VAT increase could impact cross-border trade
The announcement of plans to increase the VAT rate to 16% by 2026/27, combined with no inflationary adjustment to income tax brackets, could have a dual effect on cross-border trade. Cross-border ...