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SA`s Border Management Authority needs R3bn to pay salaries

Source: News 24, 30/11/2021


• The Border Management Authority needs close to R3 billion to
pay staff salaries for a fully operational service.
• Another R5.2 billion is needed for goods and services, which
does not include future technology requirements.
• On Tuesday, BMA commissioner Nakampe Masiapato briefed
Parliament on the authority`s rollout and funding.
South Africa`s Border Management Authority (BMA) needs close to R3
billion to pay staff, while another estimated R5.2 billion would be
needed for goods and services.
According to BMA commissioner Nakampe Masiapato, the estimated
expenditure on the compensation of employees and goods and services
was to establish a fully operational BMA.
On Tuesday, Masiapato and several Home Affairs officials briefed
Parliament`s home affairs committee on the BMA rollout plan and
funding.
`It should be noted that the above costing is indicative of an
estimated cost of the BMA. However, this cost does not include the
cost of the future ICT requirements,` Masiapato said.
Following discussions between the BMA leadership, National Treasury
and Department of Public Service and Administration, it was agreed
that until March 2023, the BMA would remain `incubated` within the
Department of Home Affairs.
`Between 1 January 2022 to May 2022, all key positions filled and the
oversight committees constituted. In June 2022, BMA will make budget
submissions to National Treasury inclusive of transferred budgets from
proclaimed departments as discussed. In July 2022, the Department of
Public Service and Administration is to announce the listing of BMA as
a Schedule 3A Public Entity,` Masiapato said in his presentation.
After budgetary processes in October 2022, and February 2023, the BMA
would exit the department to operate as a public entity from 1 April
2023.
It would report to the Minister of Home Affairs.
The BMA would be responsible for:
• Facilitating and managing the legitimate movement of persons
and goods within the border law enforcement area and at ports of
entry;
• Dealing with all kinds of inter-jurisdictional crimes, such as
human and wildlife trafficking, movement of counterfeit goods, and the
illegal border crossings; and
• Co-operate and co-ordinate its border law enforcement
functions with other agencies like police, the SA National Defence
Force and the SA Revenue Service.
`Considering this mandate, juxtaposed against the long-standing
national problem of `porous borders`, it is therefore critical to
fast track the operationalisation of this BMA, of which this
presentation seeks to provide an update to that effect,` Masiapato
said.
The BMA logo was developed with the support of the Government
Communications Information System (GCIS) and approved in October.
Uniform specifications for the BMA were finalised in June 2021, and so
far, 15 Toyota Land Cruisers had been bought.
Masiapato said that members of the Immigration Inspectorate would be
deployed along with soldiers to conduct joint operations this festive
season.
`In addition, plans are at advance stages for the deployment of
additional capacity of the SANDF reserves at the borderline. BMA
leadership is finalising discussions with the SANDF Command Council
for the secondment of the reserve force of the SANDF. This will serve
as the preparations towards the introduction of the BMA Border Guards
along the borderline,` he said.
Masiapato said they were aiming to sign a memorandum of agreement with
the SANDF by no later than November.
`Given the current discussions, we envisaged to launch the BMA Border
Guards sometime early next year (2022),` he said
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