{"id":49088,"date":"2026-10-26T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49088"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:09:33","slug":"sa-border-authority-seizes-drugs-worth-over-60-million","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-border-authority-seizes-drugs-worth-over-60-million\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Border Authority seizes drugs worth over $60 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) <span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">Border Management Authority (BMA)<\/span> says it has intercepted drugs worth over $60 million at the country&#8217;s ports of entry over the past eight months.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BMA Commissioner Dr. Michael Masiapato says the successful busts demonstrate the authority&#8217;s efforts to strengthen border security.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was speaking at the inaugural Dynamics of Migration Seminar hosted by the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs at the University of SA in Pretoria, Gauteng province.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The seminar brought together delegates to discuss the push and pull factors contributing to unregulated migration across the African continent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Even if one can just digress a bit and talk about something outside migration, you will see the number of drug interceptions that are actually being done at our town. Just on Sunday, there was an interception of a very serious consignment of over 200 million. In the same way that we have done that just in the past, just in the past eight months, we talk about the interception of drugs over about a billion rands out of that particular ecosystem. And all of those drugs were meant to come into the Republic ultimately to go and create chaos in our townships,&#8221; says Masiapato.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45361,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49088","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"BMA Commissioner Dr. Michael Masiapato says the successful busts demonstrate the authority's efforts to strengthen border security.","published_date":"","news_description":"BMA Commissioner Dr. Michael Masiapato says the successful busts demonstrate the authority's efforts to strengthen border security.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49088","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49090,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49088\/revisions\/49090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}