Overview
- The Border Management Authority says the post processed more than 25,000 travellers per day at the height of the rush, including 18,450 exits on Christmas Day.
- Manual processing was temporarily introduced for some South African and Mozambican nationals—about 450 people—whose details are being reconciled on the Enhanced Movement Control System.
- Authorities declared 88 people undesirable for overstaying, seized over 80 pairs of Nike sneakers, and arrested a suspected migration facilitator charged under the Immigration Act.
- Cargo teams cleared roughly 805 trucks at KM7 on Christmas Day, which the BMA says removed congestion on the N4 corridor toward Lebombo.
- The BMA reports operations have returned to normal, even as a staffing shortfall of about 2,600 officers versus a planned 11,000 draws criticism and fresh calls for parliamentary scrutiny.