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Drones prove effective at Beitbridge border: BMA

Date: Jan 4, 2025

The Border Management Authority (BMA) Assistant Commissioner, Nkhuliseni Luvhengo says they have started seeing the benefits of drones that have been deployed along the Beitbridge border line outside Musina in Limpopo.

BMA has been using the drones at the border post since the start of the festive season. 

Luvhengo was speaking following the arrest of suspect illegal foreign nationals along the border line...

"We are beginning to see the importance or the benefits of deploying the drones and the push toke as well as the body cams that we have deployed this festive season. So we have intercepted yesterday only. We haven't encountered the number of the people that we intercepted. But yesterday we intercepted 75 people. So that includes the number of people using this vulnerable areas or this passages to pass through going to Zimbabwe and also come to South Africa to either buy some products or something they are going to sell that other side of Zimbabwe."

--SABC--

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