South Africa will deploy a special force to the border with Mozambique to curb the huge problem of illegal immigrants coming from Mozambique , South Africa’s home affairs, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, said on Monday.
“It is not just because of Covid-19 that illegal entries are happening here, it is something that we have been observing for some time. We have porous borders. This will be resolved with the deployment of the new full-time border guards,” he told the press. “On my last visit, I saw in Mbuzini that the military did not rest in blocking people trying to enter the country illegally and I can assure you that illegal entries into South Africa are not entirely due to Covid-19,” he said. “This border post was the first one I visited when I was appointed interior minister in 2019 and our ambassador here told me that the number of flights from Dubai increased exponentially in a week because people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Somalia, among others, would be using Emirates to enter Mozambique and then cross illegally into South Africa,” Aaron Motsoaledi said.
The Lebombo border post, the second busiest in the country after Beitbridge on the border with Zimbabwe, was one of 20 borders reopened today by South Africa after the closure of about two months to contain Covid-19, which has caused more than 47,000 deaths and about 1.5 million infections in the country, the most affected by the pandemic on the African continent.
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