{"id":34906,"date":"2021-02-15T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=34906"},"modified":"2021-02-15T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:58:26","slug":"low-activity-at-beitbridge-border-post-as-sa-opens-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/low-activity-at-beitbridge-border-post-as-sa-opens-borders","title":{"rendered":"Low Activity At Beitbridge Border Post As SA Opens Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>There has been low activity at the country\u2019s busiest land border the Beitbridge border post after South Africa opened their borders, the Chronicle reports.<\/p>\n<p>Border officials said less than 100 people used the border between 6 AM and 10 AM today. This comes after South Africa opened 20 land borders after easing its lockdown restrictions that were imposed just after the festive season to curb spreading the virus during the COVID-19 second wave.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe will according to the home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe open the borders after consulting the national COVID-19 taskforce:<\/p>\n<p>Our decisions pertaining to opening of borders are informed by the situation obtaining in our country. The national Covid-19 taskforce monitors the situation on the ground and makes recommendations to Cabinet. The Ministry of Health and Child Care also monitors and assesses the situation and makes decisions on that basis.<\/p>\n<p>More: Chronicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. There has been low activity at the country\u2019s busiest land border the Beitbridge border post after South Africa opened their borders, the Chronicle reports. Border officials said less than 100 people used the border between 6 AM and 10 AM today. This comes after South Africa opened 20 land borders after easing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2126,841,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-34906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-beitbridge-border","14":"tag-kazembe-kazembe","15":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Low Activity At Beitbridge Border Post As SA Opens Borders - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There has been low activity at the country\u2019s busiest land border the Beitbridge border post after South Africa opened th ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/low-activity-at-beitbridge-border-post-as-sa-opens-borders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Low Activity At Beitbridge Border Post As SA Opens Borders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There has been low activity at the country\u2019s busiest land border the Beitbridge border post after South Africa opened th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/low-activity-at-beitbridge-border-post-as-sa-opens-borders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-15T20:25:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-15T15:58:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-602a9a06a02b3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"592\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/low-activity-at-beitbridge-border-post-as-sa-opens-borders\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/low-activity-at-beitbridge-border-post-as-sa-opens-borders\",\"name\":\"Low Activity At Beitbridge Border Post As SA Opens Borders - 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