Drivers warned to avoid rain-soaked border post

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Motorists have been warned against using the recently opened Mabolwe border post that connects Botswana and Zimbabwe as the heavy rains have badly damaged the road leading to the border.

Mabolwe border post immigration officer Dennis Kaelo told Mmegi in an interview yesterday that the road to the border from Mabolwe village is currently in a bad state, adding that the crossing points where the road intersects with the rivers have also been washed away by the water.

He therefore advised motorists to desist from using the road, saying cars cannot cross the Tati River that currently has knee-deep water levels.

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