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SA plans to introduce a One-stop border policy at Oshoek/Ngwenya Border

Nhlanganiso Mkhonta by Nhlanganiso Mkhonta
January 6, 2021
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SA plans to introduce a One-stop border policy at Oshoek/Ngwenya Border

Mbabane: The South African Department of Home Affairs is set to redevelop six of their ports of entry and that includes Oshoek/Ngwenya Boarder Post which connects South Africa with Eswatini.

The other ports of entry includes Beit Bridge which connects South Africa with Zimbabwe; Lebombo connecting SA with Mozambique; Kopfontein connecting SA with Botswana; Maseru Bridge  and Ficksburg  both connecting SA with Lesotho.

According to information sourced from South African publication BusinessTech, this upcoming developments were revealed by the South African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi when he was publishing the draft One-Stop Border Policy (OSBP) for public consultation.

This major project is aimed at modernising these ports into ‘world-class’ one-stop border posts, with construction set to be concluded by 2025.

“The benefit for the South African economy is that goods and people will move through these six busiest land ports at a faster pace and in a more effective and efficient manner,” the department said.

“This will have specific and direct benefits for traders, freight carriers and all those transporting goods since the intention is that all movement through these ports will be processed once and jointly by South Africa and the relevant neighbouring country.”

South Africa and its neighbouring countries currently use a two-stop system in which exit procedures are carried out by one state on one side of the border, while entry procedures are carried out on the other side.

The department said that the ideal solution is to establish OSBPs where vehicles, goods and people stop only once for border processing formalities.

Through a negotiated bilateral agreement, officials from both countries will operate in a common control zone where all procedures will be harmonised.

One-Stop Border Policy (OSBP) aims to harmonise the movement of people and goods between South Africa’s land ports of entry and its neighbouring countries, as well as address congestion which results in delays.

The document also highlights a number of failures with the country’s current border system, including:

Poor controls and weak management that adversely affect the country’s territorial integrity;

Border infrastructure such as fences and patrol roads are inadequate. The capability of the state to secure this environment is limited and exposes large parts of the land border to strategic vulnerability, which contributes to problems such as wildlife poaching, human trafficking and smuggling;

The location, number and design of the country’s 72 ports of entry are a legacy of the country’s colonial and apartheid past.

To address these issues, government will establish a new Border Management Authority (BMA) which will be at the forefront of fighting illicit and unauthorised movement at the country’s borders.

The BMA will be established as a national public entity and will report to the minister of Home Affairs.

New trade deal

The new border policy comes after South Africa entered into the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 1 January 2021.

The historic AfCFTA agreement has been signed by 54 of the 55 African Union (AU) member States, and 34 countries have already deposited their instruments of ratification to the AU Commission and have become state parties.

The AfCFTA aims to build an integrated market in Africa that will see a pool of over a billion people with a combined GDP of approximately US$3.3 trillion.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa estimates that the AfCFTA will increase intra-Africa trade from the current 10%-16% to approximately 52% by the year 2022.

“The AfCFTA is a significant development that will change trade patterns and has the potential to transform African economies,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in November.

“It will encourage economic diversification, beneficiation of our minerals and resources and value-addition to seize the opportunities arising from an increasingly open African continental market.

“We expect that in the New Year, 2021, preferential trade in Africa will begin with significant product coverage and will be further expanded over the coming years,” he said.

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