Batswana in panic dive for 'working' passport

South Africa threw Botswana into confusion last week when no Botswana residents using the old passports - non-machine readable passports - were allowed into that country on Thursday and Friday, immigration sources in South Africa confirmed to Mmegi.

Immigration officials at Kopfontein border posts have admitted denying Botswana old passport holders entry for two days until the immigration officials from Botswana intervened, but Botswana's Ministry of Labour and Home affairs, under which the Department of Immigration falls, denies ever intervening in the problem which, they say, never existed at all.