In a perfect world, the Limpopo River crossing on the N11 between South Africa and Botswana would work like clockwork, 24/7, 52 weeks straight, year in year out, as long as trade revenue could be made from demand in the Copperbelt.
The tax authorities on either side of the border, the SA Revenue Service Sars and the Botswana Unified Revenue Service Burs, would harmonise systems, since theyre already part of the Southern African Customs Union, the oldest such arrangement in the world.
In South Africa, the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency C-BRTA would ensure that transporters, many of whom carry hazardous chemicals used by mines in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC, received the trade-facilitative assistance that the agency is mandated to provide.