State is cracking down on corruption at border posts, Hlengiwe Mkhize says
Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize stressed to Parliament that her department was stamping out corruption by officials at the country’s various points of entry. In a written reply to ANC MP Mlindwa Gumede, Mkhize said there had been 49 arrests since June 2016 at five ports of entry. The department, as well as the government, was under pressure to stem corruption at ports of entry, she said, as hostilities boil over between South Africans and foreign nationals who live among them. Mkhize said the department had implemented biometric access control on the enhanced movement control system (EMCS) at the ports of entry. All officials using the system are using biometrics to log on, she said. "The department is currently located within the justice crime prevention and security cluster and this allows it to work through its countercorruption branch in collaboration with law enforcement agencies such as the South African Police Service, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (t...
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