ONE-STOP BORDER POST BILL: GOODS/MONEY MOVEMENT CLAUSE REVISED

ONE-STOP BORDER POST BILL: GOODS/MONEY MOVEMENT CLAUSE REVISED

• 05 November 2025
• Home Affairs
• SA Legal Academy

A ‘B’ version of the One-Stop Border Post Bill passed by the National Assembly on 4 November 2025 and now before the NCOP reflects amendments to clause 6, dealing with the movement of goods or money within a common control zone for official purposes. Inserted at the request of the National Assembly’s Home Affairs Committee, sub-clauses 6(2) and (3) respectively:

• provide that ‘subject to proper declarations being made and appropriate inventories … kept, all equipment … necessary to enable an official of … (South Africa) or (an) adjoining state to carry out … (their) official functions in the control zone must be freely transferable within … (that) zone’, and
• define the term ‘official purposes’ as ‘an act done in the execution or performance of a function, power or duty conferred by any law of … (South Africa) or an adjoining state’.

According to remarks made by Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber during the Bill’s second reading in the House, it

• creates ‘the framework for South Africa to massively boost regional trade and growth’
• by establishing ‘common control zones’, enables the Border Management Authority and ‘other stakeholders in the port environment’ to ‘integrate and coordinate … operations with neighbouring countries’
• is expected to ‘speed up turnaround times at ports of entry by eliminating the need for cargo to be processed twice when crossing an international border’, and
• by enabling ‘faster, more efficient, more modern and more secure cross-border trade’, will take South Africa ‘one step closer to realising the vision of the African continental free trade area’.

The Minister also referred to a public-private partnership in terms of which work is already under way to reconstruct the country’s six busiest land ports, including Beitbridge, Oshoek and Kopfontein)

• Bill’s ‘B’ version
• Minister’s speech
• parliamentary media statement on Bill

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