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The Citizen reports that Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is not ready to officially launch the Border Management Authority (BMA), nor deploy the promised 200 “border guards”, who are supposed to monitor illegal cross-border activity.
The initial announcements were made late last year. Motsoaledi referred to the border guards this past weekend, following the gruesome murder of Zimbabwean national Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot last week. The government said it would recruit, interview and appoint 200 people as border guards, buy 15 vehicles, and get logos, emblems and uniforms designed. However, Motsoaledi said the unit was not yet ready to be launched. “The truth is that there are results yet because it’s a new structure,” he said during a community briefing in Diepsloot on Friday. According to political analyst Dr Levy Ndou, while the government had a legal obligation to ensure the country’s borders were secured, it had failed in its responsibility. He commented that the biggest challenge and question would be whether the government would actually ensure that borders were safe “because the government is not very clear in terms of its position about illegal immigrants. In Ndou’s view, that was why some citizens were taking the law into their own hands.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Reitumetse Makwea on page 3 of The Citizen of 11 April 2022 or at The Citizen (subscriber access only)
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