Update: Since the story below went to press last night, the SA Border Management Authority has announced that it will close the Lebombo (Komatipoort) Border due to a flare-up of violence in Ressano-Garcia, just inside the Mozambique border, where buildings were set alight last night.
Calm has returned to South Africa’s Komatipoort border with Mozambique on the N4.
According to a Freight News report, transporters using the border facilities say that this morning a sense of calm had returned to the Mozambican side of the border at Komatipoort.
This followed unrest in the country since the October 9 election results were issued. Disputing the official result, which left the ruling party for the past 49 years in power, independent candidate Venâncio Mondlane called for public protests.
WhatsApp posts on a transporters’ channel indicated that it was safe to travel from the Komatipoort border post to the Port of Maputo after election protestors yesterday forced trucks to park across the road, blocking access to the border control area.
During the protests, tyres were set alight on the road near a toll plaza outside Maputo.
