Jane Mlambo| At least 1350 people are arrested every month trying to skip the border into South Africa, the parliamentary committee on defence, home affairs and security services has said.

Reporting before parliament yesterday, the committee said 16187 people were arrested trying to skip the border into South Africa between January to June last year.

“Statistics submitted to the Committee showed that a total of 16 187 have been arrested for illegal crossing from January to June 2019. This is a significant number and it can be quantified that on average 1 350 people are being arrested on monthly basis,” the committee reported.

Zimbabwe is currently experience an economic haemorhage that has caused untold suffering to citizens.

In such cases, citizens end up leaving the country for greener pastures and South Africa is usually an easy route out due to the porous nature of the border.