'The fence was hardly up for one day and the crooks came through with cases of cigarettes and smuggled food and all of that,' De Lille told parliamentary committees.
‘The fence was hardly up for one day and the crooks came through with cases of cigarettes and smuggled food and all of that,’ De Lille told parliamentary committees.
“The fence was hardly up for one day and the crooks came through with cases of cigarettes and smuggled food and all of that,” De Lille told the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure and the Select Committee on Transport, Public Service and Administration, and Public Works and Infrastructure, during a meeting with the minister and her department on Monday.
The day following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a national state of disaster on 15 March, De Lille, as per the Disaster Management Act, issued a directive for the emergency securing of the South African border posts, the first focus being on the Beitbridge border post and identified hotspots at this borderline.The following day, urgent meetings were held.
The contractor was selected based on its experience, was appropriately qualified, and was already working on a repair and maintenance programme project at Beitbridge.
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