JOHANNESBURG - The Border Management Authority is on high alert.
This after a taxi driver was arrested for trying to smuggle 25 undocumented foreigners from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
The passengers in the taxi included 20 children, who have since been taken to a place of safety.
Jane Thupana, Deputy Commissioner of Corporate Affairs at the BMA, says there's been a spike in the smuggling of illegal persons into the country.
Taxi driver arrested for smuggling children
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