{"id":44876,"date":"2026-03-18T04:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/successes-recorded-during-joint-cross-border-operation-between-south-africa-and-botswana\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:54:30","slug":"successes-recorded-during-joint-cross-border-operation-between-south-africa-and-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/successes-recorded-during-joint-cross-border-operation-between-south-africa-and-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Successes recorded during joint cross border operation between South Africa and Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KIMBERLEY &#8211; In a joint cross border operation between South Africa and Botswana, authorities from the two countries conducted enhanced and coordinated high density patrols along the border lines and routes in the Kalahari addressing transnational crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-disciplinary team consisting of members from the South African Police Service, the Botswana Police,  Border Management Authority (BMA), South African National Defence Force ( SANDF), South African National Parks ( SANPARKS) and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) executed the operation from Thursday, 12 March 2026 to Sunday, 15 March 2026 in the Kalahari region.<\/p>\n<p>Actions and police activities during the operation included compliance inspections, farm visits and vehicle check points where 291 vehicles and 1117 individuals were stopped and searched.<\/p>\n<p>These actions resulted in the issuing of fines amounting to R7 500-00 to motorists who failed to comply with the Road Traffic Act and the arrest&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76792&#038;page=successes-recorded-during-joint-cross-border-operation-between-south-africa-and-botswana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIMBERLEY &#8211; In a joint cross border operation between South Africa and Botswana, authorities from the two countries conducted enhanced and coordinated high density patrols along the border lines and routes in the Kalahari addressing transnational crimes. The multi-disciplinary team consisting of members from the South African Police Service, the Botswana Police, Border Management Authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/653554429_1359751672843136_1619707167159338051_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/653554429_1359751672843136_1619707167159338051_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}