₦airaland Forum

The South African Department of Home Affairs and the Border Management Authority have launched new border drones, tech and ‘deportation buses' to combat an expected surge in illegal border crossings over the festive period.

This marks the first time these have been used in tackling the country’s porous borders and marks the start of what DHA minister Leon Schreiber calls a “dramatic” expansion of tech-driven solutions.

“Our commitment to digital transformation and embracing technology is absolute,” Schreiber said at the launch.

The first set of drones will specifically be deployed to five ports of entry throughout the festive period, the minister said, giving the department “eyes in the sky” to track and apprehend illegal immigrants.

December and January are the peak periods in terms of movement into and out of South African ports of entry, the department noted.

“No longer will it be the case that people can move around without us having eyes on them. We want to send a very clear message to people who want to violate South Africa’s emigration laws: for the very first time, you won’t even know that we are seeing you.

“We are above you, we are around you, and we are watching for infringements along the borderline,” he said.

In addition to the drones, the Department is also implementing the use of body cameras and so-called ‘deportation buses’.

The minister said the cameras will help clamp down on corruption and ensure the safety of officials, including border guards and the defence force.

The buses, meanwhile, will be out on the roads, transporting illegal immigrants caught crossing the border back over.

“We welcome any traveller, any investor, any tourist, any skilled person who will follow our laws and help us build South Africa. But that is different from people who violate our law and don’t want to comply with our rules,” the minister said.

“You will find we have a renewed commitment to enforcing the rule of law in South Africa. That is how you create a secure country.”

The minister noted that the buses have already deported the first group of 290 illegal miners back to Mozambique.

Schreiber said this was just the start of the BMA’s use of this technology and that South Africans should expect it to expand “dramatically” in the future.

Silentgroper:
Look at their god holding the drone .

PapaNnamdi:
Lol,
Boarder patrol na white wey com claim una use una de do border patrol for una own land,

Nobody foolish like south Africans🤣,
See that one smiling.

Silentgroper:
Look at their god holding the drone .

PapaNnamdi:
Lol,
Boarder patrol na white wey com claim una use una de do border patrol for una own land,

Nobody foolish like south Africans🤣,
See that one smiling.

RandDigital:
No bigger white worshippers than Nigerians. Breaking News - "Oyinbo seen crossing the road in Enugu" 😂😂😂

DeeScan:
atleast they don't control our country

RandDigital:
No bigger white worshippers than Nigerians. Breaking News - "Oyinbo seen crossing the road in Enugu" 😂😂😂

RandDigital:
DeeSCAM, you wish they were. I've seen alot of you begging for oyinbo with some skills in Zoological Studies to come recolonize you so there can be law & order in your cow-ntry 😂😂😂

Silentgroper:
Look at their god holding the drone .

Silentgroper:
Look at their god holding the drone .

Solsix:
What can this people do without the whites?? Nothing

Silentgroper:
Look at their god holding the drone .

AfahaAbia:
I sware. The whites in South Africa are actually their god. Without them South Africa is finished

DeeScan:
atleast they don't control our country

JaceBlaze:
Yes lol

"Oyinbo seen with a bowl of jollof"

obiekunie01:
AND THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOUR!

useless xenophobic chimps!

KingCold:
'Can you coons go a day without yapping about "whites"? That should be the question, I've never seen a nation so obsessed with white people quite like Nigerians

Solsix:
I know he will reply, he's predictable. No be white man dey dey picture??

Ballzproblem2:
South Africa will do everything but educate their men not sexually assault their women is where they draw the line.

KingCold:
LOL. You see a white person in the picture, and the first thought in your head is that he's godly.. Projection.

KingCold:
"White man seen eating Garri in Lagos".. as if that's some f ***g achievement

Silentgroper:
some of us getts intrigued seeing them do something like eating garri as they don't do that everyday ..


But we atleast don't have them over running our country .. no single white man in power after centuries of enslavement, we're proud of that ..

Now let's talk about south Africa .. it turns out there's nothing to talk about cause they literally own the country now ...

Your forefathers suffered for nothing .. They should be wriggling with pain in their grave..

Silentgroper:
isn't it exactly how they're being seen as in your country...