Overview
- Border officials say traffic at Lebombo and along the N4 corridor has returned to normal after days of kilometre-long queues driven by holiday travel.
- On 25 December, the BMA processed more than 18,450 outbound travellers at Lebombo and declared 88 people undesirable, largely for overstaying visas.
- The authority reported that most travellers were cleared through automated systems on Christmas Day, with about 450 people manually processed and captured for later reconciliation.
- Cargo backlogs were lifted as roughly 805 trucks were cleared at KM7 for transit to Mozambique and onward to the Port of Maputo.
- The BMA says it intercepted about 500 Zimbabwean nationals attempting an illegal exit via Groblersbrug, while Contralesa urged Parliament to summon Home Affairs and the BMA over planning failures and lingering security and staffing gaps.