The Border Management Authority (BMA) intends to construct a barrier on the country's borders using millions recouped by the SIU from the Beitbridge border fence contract that failed. The fence, which was meant to be a 2.2-metre high, was erected by a contractor within three weeks in March 2020 at the border between SA and neighbouring Zimbabwe. The fence which was meant to stop illegal crossing during Covid-19 started falling apart soon after it was erected and it was found to have had over 100 breaches.

In July 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised the Special Investigating Unit to investigate the contracts and the investigations revealed irregularities in the awarding of the contracts. SIU approached the Special Tribunal to declare the contracts invalid and that the companies pay back profits earned from the R40.4 million the fence construction. Last week, the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed with costs a special leave to appeal an application brought by the companies to appeal a decision of the High Court and Special Tribunal to strip them of profits earned from the contract. The court ruled that the companies, Caledon River Properties Pty Ltd and Profteam CC, must, within 30 days, file audited statements and debatement of accounts reflecting their incomes and expenditure in the contracts. SIU and the Department of Public Works were ordered to appoint, within 30 days thereafter, qualified experts to compile a report on the service providers' expenses and file papers. The service providers were also ordered by the court to pay the Department of Public Works profit earned from the contracts as agreed by the experts and made the order of the Tribunal within 30 days.

BMA Commissioner, Dr. Michael Masiapato, said they whenever they try to deploy guards to a vulnerable area, illegal immigrants move to another one so "we keep on moving as we intercept them. It is not an easy task especially without any physical barring, that is why we are confident with the SIU having won back the R40 million that was used to construct the Beitbridge fence. The money is going to be brought back to the public works department and the construction of barriers at different border posts, including Lebombo, Maseru Bridge, Kopfontein, Botswana amongst others, will commence. That will help us to do the work better." He said the bridge is not the only issue because there are a lot of areas of ports that are used by immigrants to infiltrate the country. "We are doing our best despite these issues. However, once we have deployed our drone technology, we will be able to tell you the number of people that we were not able to intercept, currently we can't because we don't have eyes on some of the ports.