South Africa's border security crisis at Beitbridge has reached a critical flashpoint. A R37 million fence lies in ruins, while just 500 soldiers struggle to patrol more than 1,000 kilometres of porous border, and soldiers deployed to protect the nation are living in conditions so dire, they are forced to bathe in their tents.
These are the harsh realities exposed last week when parliamentary committees visited the country's busiest land border with Zimbabwe, where illegal crossings, s...