Environmentally hazardous truck-driver behaviour in the sensitive border area of Komatipoort is the responsibility of the Border Management Authority BMA to police, assistant commissioner Mmemme Mogotsi has confirmed.
This, she said, after Kevin van der Merwe, acting CEO of the Road Freight Association RFA, assisted in clearing up uncertainty over whose responsibility it was to combat an old problem on the banks of the Komati River mine-soot pollution from the buckets of ore trucks.
He said as far as the RFA was aware, South Africas land borders had a 10-kilometre radius that became the jurisdiction of the BMA when it was officially launched in October 2023.