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DHA clamps down on `lack of supervision` at SA`s busiest port of entry

Source: Traveller 24, 14/03/2018

Cape Town - Passport control, queues and stern officials are the order
of the day at ports of entry across the world.
However, a Department of Home Affairs (DHA) official appears to have a
rather blase` approach to a very serious job of checking and
authorising the movement of people into South Africa - as captured on a
video at the Beitbridge Port of Entry with Zimbabwe.
The video has since gone viral - with twitter taking the department to
task for its overall work ethic and the use of social media during
working hours on, Wednesday, 14 March.
In response, Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba called for `swift
action` against the official.
In a statement issued by the DHA, it confirmed the official in the
video clip filmed at the region`s busiest border is currently under
investigation.
Beitbridge is the busiest inland border in South Africa, facilitating
more than 71 000 vehicles and 700 000 people (inbound and outbound) per
month, according to 2016 Department of Public Works data.
It also facilitates more than R43 billion and R57 billion imports and
exports respectively - with exports constituting more than 80% of the
goods processed at the Beitbridge border post.
Director-General Mkuseli Apleni says the official is in direct
violation of DHA policy against the use of cellular phones at
workstations.
`The official has been identified and she will be subjected to internal
disciplinary processes. Further to this, disciplinary measures have
commenced against the three supervisors on the shift for lack of
adequate supervision.`
â€œOf major concern to me is the fact that the official is dealing with
security documents without paying attention to detail and rather
preoccupied with her cellular phone. To this end, we have commenced
with disciplinary measures against the official and the three
supervisors,â€ says Apleni.

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