SOUTH Africa’s fragmented border management model will be one of the first issues addressed by Parliament following the recess for the local government elections.The portfolio committee on home affairs would begin processing the Border Management Authority Bill on Tuesday.READ THIS: Patches ease visa woes but obstacles remain"Public comments will ensure that the bill is strengthened and fits the purpose with which it was intended to achieve‚" chairperson Lemias Mashile said on Sunday. He added that stakeholders and the public were invited to make submissions.This bill — which the committee noted at its last meeting in June was a modified name as "the authority was called the agency in the former draft of the bill" — was drafted to establish a Border Management Authority that would remedy the fragmented border management model currently being utilised."This fragmented model has resulted in a variety of challenges in relation to control of the country’s borders. The bill seeks to esta...
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