Browsing: Beitbridge Border Post

On the face of it, it costs just a few hundred rands to illegally move goods across the border of South Africa and Zimbabwe. But with hundreds of smugglers operating on either side of the Beitbridge border, it’s a lucrative source of income.

Scores of Zimbabwean economic immigrants continue to form long queues into South Africa on the Zimbabwean side of the Beitbridge Border Post. 

Newzroom Afrika’s Pelane Phakgadi is at the Beitbridge border to give us a sense of what is happening there. South African immigration officials, health workers and the army toiled on Tuesday night to process thousands of Zimbabweans trying to get into SA ahead of a 30-day travel ban by their country.

Firebrand EFF leader Julius Malema has tipped Zimbabwean youths to take the lead and blockade the Beitbridge Border Post for two days in protest against president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s misrule as political tensions and human rights violations continue to escalate in the country.

Shocking video of looting in South Africa

Video of Customs Warehouse on fire in Beitbridge