Five suspects arrested for drug trafficking, including ACSA employees
Five suspects have been arrested for drug trafficking, contravention of the Civil Aviation Act and contravention of the Customs and Excise Act in a...
BMA border guards apprehend men smuggling state property into Mozambique
Border guards from the newly established Border Management Authority (BMA) have arrested two people and charged them with the possession of stolen goods, including...
Lesotho/SA migration “model” to be researched amid high levels of illegal migration
Basotho without the necessary travel documentation regularly feature in the top three of people from countries neighbouring South Africa who are stopped by soldiers...
Other government departments provide bulk of BMA funding and personnel
Commissioner and Chief Executive Michael Masiapato’s Border Management Authority (BMA) is being primarily funded not directly from National Treasury but four national government departments.
Between...
Banditry on the border needs joint Nigeria-Niger efforts
Bandits have terrorised north-west Nigerians for about a decade, and attacks are rising. Rape and other sexual violence, abductions and killings are just some...
SANDF recovers millions of Rands worth of stolen vehicles, drugs and cigarettes
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers on Operation Corona border patrol have in one week recovered millions of Rands worth of stolen vehicles...
Funding shortfall hampers border protection and safeguarding
In auditing the Department of Defence (DoD) annual report for 2022/23, Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke’s budgetary review and recommendations report (BRRR) specifies funding as the...
SAPS records another massive cocaine bust in Durban
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has seized cocaine with a street value of R80 million following another intelligence-driven operation at the Dube Trade...
SAPS makes massive R70 million drug bust at Durban Harbour
An intelligence driven operation led by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) Durban Harbour and members of the Directorate for Priority Crime...
BMA guard personnel numbers set to increase
The Border Management Authority (BMA) is expanding its border guard numbers, adding 400 to the 200 put into service 15 months ago.
BMA Chief Executive...
Troop rotation at two Op Corona border protection sites
There have been personnel changes on at least two of South Africa’s landward borders with new deployments of regular and reserve force soldiers replacing...
BMA will be part of stopping illegal mining
South Africa’s Border Management Authority (BMA), dubbed the country’s third armed service by President Cyril Ramaphosa, will be part of countering illegal mining in...
Thirty years jail for Kruger rhino poacher
A convicted poacher will spend the next 30 years behind bars, the regional court in Skukuza has ruled.
Sidney Sibuyi was, according to a SANParks...
SA’s new Border Management Authority to boost security, development – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the establishment of the Border Management Authority (BMA) – officially launched last week - is a significant step...
SA President launches country’s newest armed service in Musina
The newest component of the South African government’s security sector – the Border Management Authority (BMA) - was launched in Musina yesterday (Thursday, 5...
Mpumalanga/Moz border busiest for Op Corona in September
While not South Africa’s longest with a neighbouring country, the 491 km land border with Mozambique is the leakiest, if the latest border protection...
Twelve months before BMA makes “a difference” to border security
The man at the helm of the newest addition to South Africa’s security architecture – Border Management Authority (BMA) Chief Executive Michael Masiapato –...
SANDF assists SAPS with borderline hostage rescue
Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), working with the South African Police Service (SAPS), have rescued seven kidnapped family members before...
SANDF soldiers recover hijacked vehicle, illicit cigarettes
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers on border protection duty in Limpopo have recovered a hijacked vehicle and seized two cars smuggling illicit...
Environmental disaster and climate change refugees should be recognised as such
As our planet warms, we’re experiencing more frequent and severe weather events, rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and altered ecosystems. These environmental shifts directly...
ISS: Fortress South Africa – open to the highest bidder
Securing borders against irregular migration has come to dominate global immigration policymaking and spending – driven largely by inaccurate politicised narratives that economic migration...
SA ports of entry upgrade on the way
South Africa’s six busiest ports of entry – all land-based – are in line for an upgrade to make them more people and trade...
SA Army soldiers seize contraband, recover vehicles and detain illegal immigrants
The best efforts of a thinly spread deployment of soldiers, while making some headway, does not appear to have significantly slowed the flow of...
Bambatha Rifles “save” a bakkie, net illicit cigarettes
Bringing in donkeys to help move a stolen high-end bakkie across the Limpopo River did not help smugglers as South African infantry soldiers swooped...
Durban Light Infantry making its mark in Corona operations
South Africa’s land border with Botswana is nowhere near as busy as those of Mozambique and Zimbabwe when it comes to stopping illegal immigration...
Another big cigarette bust for SANDF soldiers
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers on border patrol have seized over R1 million worth of illicit cigarettes from smugglers in Limpopo, days...
Cross-border crime in northern KZN a problem for locals
The far northern reaches of KwaZulu-Natal, bordering Mozambique, are administered by the largely rural uMkhanyakude district municipality where cross-border crime has locals “living in...
SANDF soldiers confiscate R6 million worth of illicit cigarettes
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers on border protection duty have in one weekend recovered over R6 million worth of illicit cigarettes and...
Op Corona patrols net contraband worth millions in July
SA Army soldiers tasked with ensuring South Africa’s land borders are as user-unfriendly as possible to illegal immigrants, smugglers and vehicle thieves had a...
Rhino poachers target KZN as Kruger killings decline
KwaZulu-Natal is seemingly now the venue of choice for rhino poachers in South Africa, with the province losing 143 of the Big Five species...
Reserve Force soldier turns down bribe
A Reserve Force soldier showed true mettle and honesty when initiating a takedown from an apparently unscrupulous supplier.
Bambatha Regiment Warrant Officer Class 2 Happy...
R85 million worth of technology didn’t reach SANDF soldiers on the border
The Joint Operations Division of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) had the wool well and truly pulled over its eyes by the officer...
Kruger rhino poacher jailed three months after arrest
Proof the South African criminal justice system can work speedily comes from Skukuza in the Kruger National Park (KNP) where a poacher was jailed...
Op Corona patrol nets detonators
Reserve Force soldiers on a routine border protection patrol put a spanner in the works of the criminal fraternity who use explosives in the...
SANDF soldiers recover water tanker on Lesotho border
By far the most intriguing “item” recovered by South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers on the border protection tasking Operation Corona last month...
Parabats prove themselves as smuggler stoppers
On the face of it, deploying specialist airborne soldiers for border protection might seem over the top. It is definitely not and is part...
SADC needs more inter-agency co-operation to effectively fight TOC
Southern African regional police chiefs heard transnational crime poses “a serious menace” to democracy and peace in the region as well as the “loss...
Rhino horn stolen from NW Parks head office
Would-be poachers in the North West appear to have changed track into wildlife product thieves, evidenced by the illegal removal of over 50 rhino...
Addo to boost anti-poaching unit as E Cape poachers handed jail time
Eastern Cape is home to Addo Elephant National Park which, while not in the same league as Kruger when it comes to poaching, has...
SANDF attends border security symposium
A senior South African National Defence Force (SANDF) delegation was among 200 attendees at last week’s Border Security Week event in Cape Town.
The border...
R43 million up in smoke
The sky in the immediate vicinity of the Beitbridge port of entry in Limpopo is this week a haze of tobacco smoke as R43...
Specialist bush first aid gear for Kruger rangers
Rangers in South Africa’s premier game reserve – the Kruger National Park – are now better equipped to handle injuries while on anti-poaching duty.
In...
Soldiers confiscate R3 million plus worth of drugs in May border ops
Drug smuggling and livestock theft were major focus points for South African soldiers posted on the country’s land borders in May with over R4...
R2 million plus dagga crop won’t make it to market
The border protection tasking assigned to the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) often sees soldiers working with police to put the brakes on criminal...
BMA effectivity questioned
The newest addition to South Africa’ security architecture – the Border Management Authority (BMA) – came under fire for not putting the brakes on...
Part-time soldiers recover earthmover in Limpopo
Johannesburg Reserve Force regiment Bambatha Rifles notched a notable first during its current Operation Corona border protection deployment recovering a single earthmoving machine worth...
Work underway to fight wildlife crime – Creecy
Government is working around the clock to fight wildlife crime and corruption, especially in the Kruger National Park, said Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment...
Cameroon sends troops to CAR and Nigeria borders to stop attacks
Cameroon is deploying troops to its borders in response to a resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in the country’s Far North region.
In April, the...
Multiple big drug seizures recorded in the Arabian Sea
A Royal Navy frigate in the Arabian Sea has seized $6 million worth of hashish while a US Coast Guard cutter has seized $80...
SANDF soldiers help nab vehicle smugglers
Several suspected vehicle smugglers have been apprehended by the South African Police Service (SAPS) with assistance from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)...
