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The East African
Wednesday January 13 2021
Suspected undocumented Zimbabwean nationals after being rounded up by South African soldiers for trying to illegally cross the border. PHOTO | AFP
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Maintaining social distance is almost impossible as the South African National Defence Forces struggle to control the chaotic scenes.
As the Immigration offices close for the day at 2100 hours because of the curfew, the travellers sleep in the open, packed like sardines.
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South Africa is experiencing a second wave of Covid-19 infections, made deadlier by a more virulent variant virus.
The situation is, however, not being helped by what can now be considered a super spreader hotspot, as thousands of people push and shove at the Beitbridge Border Post in a bid to complete immigration formalities and cross into South Africa from neighbouring Zimbabwe.
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Moza presses for Zim military intervention The Zimbabwe Independent
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FRESH intricate details of back-to-back meetings by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security have emerged, indicating that they failed to resolve a methodological dilemma on the military intervention in strife-ridden Mozambique after President Felipe Nyusi vehemently rejected suggestions of a co-ordinated regional effort.
Multiple official sources directly involved in the proceedings said Nyusi, in fact, boycotted the first meeting in Botswana in protest over what he is now reportedly considering as “irritating persistence” on a collective regional military response to the crisis which Maputo has previously rejected.