{"id":35763,"date":"2026-05-29T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35763"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:19:30","slug":"sa-official-confirms-gaps-in-truck-screening-at-border-posts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-official-confirms-gaps-in-truck-screening-at-border-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"SA official confirms gaps in truck screening at border posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) Border Management Authority (BMA) Commissioner, Dr. Mike Masiapato, says not all trucks are screened at border posts.<\/p>\n<p>Masiapato was explaining how a truck from Malawi with a drug consignment worth R1 billion ($61 million) passed undetected on the Zimbabwean side of the Beitbridge border post in Musina. The truck was intercepted once it reached the SA side of the border. He was speaking during a press briefing at Beitbridge on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe missing aspect, also from their side, is the same reality that we do not necessarily do a hundred percent screen for all trucks. It is not only a SA issue but also an African and global issue. So, on that basis, it is very much possible to miss something of that magnitude and of that nature. So I suppose that is what happened in this particular instance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21873,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35763","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The truck was intercepted once it reached the SA side of the border. He was speaking during a press briefing at Beitbridge on Thursday.","published_date":"","news_description":"The truck was intercepted once it reached the SA side of the border. He was speaking during a press briefing at Beitbridge on Thursday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35763","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\/35763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35764,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35763\/revisions\/35764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}