Soldiers deployed on the Eastern Cape border with Lesotho intercepted 233 illegal immigrants with their colleagues in camouflage on the Free State/Lesotho border stopping 64 Basotho from continuing illegal journeys into South Africa. The 491 km Mpumalanga border ranges from south of the Lebombo port of entry and up along the eastern border of the Kruger National Park with soldiers stopping 33 illegals. All told soldiers deployed on five South African land borders with Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in November confiscated contraband worth in excess of R4.7 million from smugglers.