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Delay over border authority bill irks home affairs minister

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Draft law that proposes a single body to oversee SA’s boundaries was first introduced to parliament in 2016

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

The bill provides for the establishment of a single border control authority to replace the multiplicity of agencies and departments that now control the flow of people and goods across the borders and through ports of entry. These include the police, the defence force, the SA Revenue Service and the departments of home affairs, health, environment and agriculture, which jointly enforce 58 acts of parliament.

The committee will also be briefed by the department of home affairs and Sars on the practicalities of the revenue service’s working relationship at the border. In a reply to a question by IFP MP Liezl van der Merwe on Wednesday, Motsoaledi said the government accepts that SA’s borders are porous.

 

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