Bietbridge humanitarian crisis

South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis as pressure mounts at South Africa’s border posts. Long queues and desperate attempts to enter South Africa have placed a huge strain on the country’s border posts with neighbouring countries. On the Beit Bridge border posts hundreds of Zimbabweans have been captured waiting for days in the line to escape the thirty day hard lockdown implemented on Tuesday. The lockdown is said to be harsher than that of South Africa. Some of the reasons for the delays are that travellers are required to produce a valid negative covid 19 test result obtained 72 hours before the date of travel.

To take the conversation further as we close off the month we talk to:

• Leon Isaacson is the managing director at Global Migration -

• Professor Jo Vearey is an Associate Professor with the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand.