ONE-STOP BORDER POST BILL: FREE MONEY/GOODS TRANSFER CLAUSE A CONCERN

ONE-STOP BORDER POST BILL: FREE MONEY/GOODS TRANSFER CLAUSE A CONCERN

• 17 September 2025
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The National Assembly’s Home Affairs Committee has asked the Department of Home Affairs and ‘other relevant parties’ to review provisions in the One-Stop Boarder Post Bill affecting the transfer of money or goods within a common control zone. This is according to a committee media statement on its most recent meeting.

The move may have been informed by input received during parliamentary hearings held in May 2025. Whatever the case, apparently ‘various concerns’ have been raised about the Bill’s ‘practicability and legality’.

Against that backdrop, as things now stand the Bill’s clause 6 provides that – subject to conditions set out in clause 3 – ‘the goods or money moved by any official, for official use, from the territory of the Republic or the territory of an adjoining state to the territory of the Republic or adjoining state, as the case may be, through the common control zone, are not subject to the import or export and entry or exit laws of the Republic or the adjoining state’.

Clause 3 empowers the Minister of Home Affairs to conclude an agreement ‘with any state’ to establish a one-stop border post and common control zone.

• Bill
• committee media statement

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