defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - SA Army border patrol. The Border Management Authority (BMA), while promising better control of South Africa’s borders, could be a white elephant staffed with millionaire managers unless substantial funding is supplied by National Treasury is how Adrian Roos, Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian and his party’s shadow deputy minister of home affairs, views yet another addition to the bureaucracy. Recent reminders of just how chaotic entering or leaving South Africa via official ports of entry are the situations at Beit Bridge (Zimbabwe) and Lebombo (Mozambique) over the year-end period. At Beit Bridge people died while queuing for attention from Department of Home Affairs (DHA) officials. Vehicles, including trucks carrying perishables, were backed up over 20 km from customs control points. The SANDF (SA National Defence Force) in the form of its depleted technical services division put heavy-duty extraction vehicles in the form of two trucks on duty at Musina to assist in alleviating traffic congestion.