The Department of Home Affairs said the congestion at the Beitbridge Border Post has been cleared and traffic has returned to normal.
“All lanes around the border have been cleared and the border has been easily accessible from the afternoon of 24 December 2020,” the Department said on Saturday.
“This means that all travellers through Beitbridge have been processed and cleared,” it said.
Home Affairs said it worked with the Department of Health, the SA National Defence Force, the SAPS, SARS and the Limpopo Provincial Government to resolve the impasse that had led to traffic congestion at Beitbridge.
The Department said the Musina Local Municipality provided additional holding areas which enabled vehicles going to the border to be released to travel in manageable numbers.
The backlog was blamed on Covid19 screening processes at the border with neighbouring Zimbabwe leading to queues of up to 20km long on either side of the border and reports of trucks taking up to nine days to cross the border.
