{"id":30926,"date":"2026-04-06T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30926"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:54:14","slug":"over-72-000-people-processed-at-beitbridge-border-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/over-72-000-people-processed-at-beitbridge-border-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 72 000 people processed at Beitbridge Border: SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Border Management Authority (BMA) in South Africa (SA) says more than 72 000 travelers have been processed at the Beitbridge Border Post since the start of the Easter holidays.<\/p>\n<p>BMA Assistant Commissioner, Azwi Managa, says they have deployed enough personnel to handle the number of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d Those that are coming in with buses are taken to the main building for processing. We are in the second shift of our execution phase. We were anticipating a high volume for arrivals. And then I think today we expect to process plus-minus 25 000 people as per normal during the time. So far, holistically, we have processed, since the departure leg up to now about 72 000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15192,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-30926","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"BMA Assistant Commissioner, Azwi Managa, says they have deployed enough personnel to handle the number of people.","published_date":"","news_description":"BMA Assistant Commissioner, Azwi Managa, says they have deployed enough personnel to handle the number of people.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30927,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30926\/revisions\/30927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}