Simon Majadibodu|Updated5 hours agoHow did a bus cleared with 43 passengers at Beitbridge end up carrying 32 more undocumented passengers? …

Border Management Authority (BMA) confirmed an investigation is underway after a bus cleared at the Beitbridge Border Post with 43 documented passengers was later intercepted in Bloemfontein carrying 32 undocumented passengers. Border Management Authority(BMA) Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato has confirmed that an investigation is under way to determine how a bus cleared at the Beitbridge Border Post with 43 documented passengers was later intercepted in Bloemfontein carrying 32 undocumented passengers. The bus had originally been processed at Beitbridge with all 43 passengers properly documented.

Masiapato was briefing the media at the Beitbridge Border Post on Monday while monitoring operations on the ground. “I think we need to make it very clear. Number one, we had conversations with all the cross-border operators, buses in particular.

We engaged with the CEOs, we engaged with the owners, and we basically said to them, ‘no one must ferry people without documentation.’ And I think you will be aware that we have done that work very extensively during the past year until this point,” he said. He added that since those conversations, they had not encountered any incidents like the bus intercepted in Bloemfontein. “So we can say that we appreciate most of the bus operators who comply with our request to make sure that they ferry people with documentation.”