By Motsebi Monareng

The Border Management Authority has advised travellers heading to Mozambique to use the Mananga Border post following disruptions at the Lebombo border due to ongoing unrest in Mozambique following the recent disputed elections.

Only a handful of cargo trucks were processed as their cargo was diverted to be offloaded at the Sidvokodvo Train Station in Eswatini before being transported to Maputo harbour.

The trucks were loaded with coal from Emakhazeni in Mpumalanga.

Some truck drivers crossing the Mananga border post indicated that they had been waiting at the Lebombo border post since Saturday before they were rerouted.

One says, “From Saturday until I came back this morning and then yesterday, they decided to divert us to Mananga Port, so we came to Mananga Port this morning and we have already submitted our papers and we have already got our papers, so we are heading to Mananga to offload.”

“We parked from Friday until yesterday now we are going, they diverted our stockpile to Mananga in Eswatini because we can deliver there. It affected me so much because we were running out of water, we were running out of food,” says another truck driver.”

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