Hon Chair, the proposed Border Management Authority, BMA, in its current form is unaffordable and will cost this country between R3,8 billion to R10,3 billion a year. To make matters worse, it will take 15 years to implement.
From at least the mid 2000s, various studies and reports have pointed to the failure of every single structure that was established to address the systemic and structural problems associated with the BMA. Again, why should we support this Bill? The Department of Home Affairs has run out of money, the SA Police Service and the SA National Defence Force has run out of money, every single entity who is responsible to deliver its core mandate has run out of money.
The current border management is a complete failure. The DA do not believe that the same people under the new proposed BMA act with broken border fences will perform any better. Instead, we will deal decisively with corruption at border posts, something the ANC cannot