The joint committees fact-finding visit ended with presentations by officials manning the border. There is a high rate of illegal border jumping and smuggling of illicit goods and hijacked vehicles along the border.
The SANDF says continued cuts in its budget allocation negatively affect its ability to sufficiently guard Beitbridge and other borders.
"We have been presenting to structures of government indicating our challenges and requesting the necessary resources but the defunding of the SANDF for the past 15 years now on going and that does affect our work and when the joint standing committee decided to come on the ground I was very excited and what happened yesterday because now they know what happens in person," says SANDF Joint Operations Chief Lt. General Siphiwe Sangweni.