A biometric system that slowed down the processing of passports at the Lebombo Border Post has been put on hold indefinitely.
Tourists queueing for hours and being exploited by illegal runners at the Lebombo Border Post is a thing of the past.Lowvelder visited the border post on Thursday after an uproar on the DriveMoz Facebook page about how long it took to get through the South African side of the border versus the Mozambican side.
On the same day that it took Lessing five hours to get through the South African side, he claimed to have zipped through the Mozambican side in just 15 minutes.“Last time we passed through there, we witnessed blatant corruption by South African officials. They cause the backlog and then work with the runners to extort money from travellers to have passports stamped quicker. Runners get R20 and officials R180 R200,” wrote Karen van der Meulen.
Grobler also noted the alleged staff shortage on the South African side. In addition, he claimed South African officials were more interested in typing messages on their cellphones than assisting travellers standing in front of them. He added the illegal runners were only there because the system was slow, and now that Lebombo has gone back to using the old system, the runners should disappear.
Mogotsi explained the older Excise Movement and Control System was used in conjunction with the BMCS to facilitate the legitimate movement of persons and goods within the ports of entry.
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