Jonathan Sando News Today

South Africa’s decision to shut its land borders was preceded by a week of pandemonium as hundreds of thousands of foreigners tried to return to work after the December holidays.

By Brian Latham Bloomberg – South Africa’s decision to shut its land borders was preceded by a week of pandemonium as hundreds of thousands of foreigners tried to return to work after the December holidays. Beitbridge, the only legal road crossing between Zimbabwe and South Africa – and southern Africa’s busiest inland border post – was the worst affected. People waited, not always patiently, for as long as four days in lines of traffic that stretched miles from the border gate with d...