{"id":36134,"date":"2026-06-03T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36134"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:44:50","slug":"delays-continue-despite-improved-maseru-bridge-traffic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/delays-continue-despite-improved-maseru-bridge-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays continue despite improved Maseru Bridge traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Traffic congestion at the Maseru Bridge border crossing between South Africa (SA) and Lesotho has eased slightly, but delays remain.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SA&#8217;s Revenue Service, (SARS), says new measures are being implemented to improve the flow of people and vehicles across the border.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They include a requirement for all foreign-registered vehicles to be declared on the Traveller Management System before entering or leaving SA.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SARS says nearly 39 000 Temporary Import Permits have been issued across the region, including around 18 000 in Lesotho.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14242,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-36134","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Traffic congestion at the Maseru Bridge border","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36134","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\/36134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36135,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36134\/revisions\/36135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}