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Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has introduced a new bill to help alleviate the hours-long delays at South African borders.
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs invites you to make written submissions on the One-Stop Border Post Bill
Parliament will consider all public comments before the Bill is signed into law.
One-Stop Solution
The One-Stop Border Post Bill has been drawn up for several months and was recently put before the National Assembly for consideration.
The Bill will put an end to checks by both the departing and arrival country at most borders, allowing those passing to only be processed once in a “common control zone”.
The minister said this will help ease high volumes of traffic at the border that has become “a major obstacle” to national and regional economic development.
“This is a move away from a traditional two-stop border post concept in which exit procedures are carried out on one side of the border and entry procedures are carried out on the other side for persons, vehicles and goods.
“Except for the Lebombo port of entry [bordering Mozambique], all the land ports of entry in South Africa are based on a two-stop border post model,” the bill explains.