Sunday Times Daily visited Beitbridge last April to report on the hastily constructed R37m border fence between SA and Zimbabwe. The trip all but confirmed our suspicions. “We make big holes so we can get suitcases with cigarettes through, and small ones so we can get people and groceries through,” a smuggler remarked casually. A month later, an exasperated minister of public works and infrastructure Patricia de Lille told MPs the fence “was hardly up for one day and the crooks came through with cases of cigarettes and smuggling food”...