Title of video:
COVID-19: Beitbridge Border Blunder
Published:
Carte Blanche, 24 June 2020
Video (10:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoCbVJ6rQcc&t=504s
Description:
As the lockdown of national borders was meant to curb the movement of people and spread of COVID-19, the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure awarded a tender worth R37 million in emergency procurement processes to fix the notoriously porous border fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Not only has Parliament’s public accounts watchdog SCOPA cried foul and launched an investigation, it seems the revamped fence is not serving its purpose and being vandalised as fast as it was built. Carte Blanche travels to Limpopo to inspect matters up close.