{"id":50623,"date":"2026-11-11T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50623"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:41:51","slug":"sas-bma-vehicle-targeting-system-intercepts-18-vehicles-at-beitbridge-border-post","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-bma-vehicle-targeting-system-intercepts-18-vehicles-at-beitbridge-border-post\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s BMA Vehicle Targeting System intercepts 18 vehicles at Beitbridge Border Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Border Management Authority&#8217;s (BMA) new Vehicle Targeting System (VTS) has already intercepted 18 vehicles at the Beitbridge border post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The system was launched on October 18. Law enforcement officials say the technology-based system assists them in identifying stolen vehicles that criminals want to smuggle across the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Some vehicles that get flagged are still under financing and have not been authorised for cross-border travel.<\/p>\n<p>The VTS\u00a0uses advanced software and technology to trace suspected stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The system also tracks vehicles under finance by different banks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The vehicles are intercepted at the border before they can be smuggled into neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23118,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-50623","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"BMA new Vehicle Targeting System","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50623","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\/50623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50625,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50623\/revisions\/50625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}