Civil Security

Globally, over 1 000 park rangers have been killed over the last decade. According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than 100 died on...

The loss of human life in farm attacks while a tragedy has another side to it – that of food security – with two...

Three parliamentary committees are in Gauteng and Mpumalanga to assess illegal mining. The portfolio committees on mineral resources and energy, along with the Portfolio Committee...

The Hawks in Gauteng have pounced on seven suspects believed to be involved in illegal mining in the West Rand area. Colonel Katlego Mogale, Hawks...

With murder and other crimes on the rise in South Africa, better responses to violence and crime are urgently needed. Cape Town Mayor Geordin...

Recent incidents of violence, reportedly including murder and rape, have again put the actions of illegal miners in the national spotlight, so much so...

Police Minister Bheki Cele has decried the harrowing levels of crime plaguing the Western Cape. The Minister expressed his concerns during a media briefing on...

A total of 24 police officers have been arrested in the Western Cape for breaking the law in the past six months. This was revealed...

Dr Mark Duerksen, a research associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, discusses the 'soup' of security responses in Nigeria of different groups...

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has warned that if not abated, illegal mining “will reach crisis proportions” and poses a “threat to...

Illegal logging is a growing feature of transnational organized crime in Africa, often facilitated by the collusion of senior officials, with far-reaching security and...

Militant Islamist group violence is accelerating in Mali, advancing a complex insurgency in north, central, and increasingly southern Mali that further threatens the country’s...

The Police Ministry says it is encouraged by the strides made in improving the safety and security of residents in Krugersdorp, West of Gauteng,...

Four of South Africa’s State Owned Companies (SOCs) – Transnet, Telkom, Eskom and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), together with the...

President Cyril Ramaphosa used Sunday’s SA Police Service (SAPS) national commemoration day to inform Bheki Cele, his police minister, to ensure police are adequately...

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) rail infrastructure projects on the Central Line in the Western Cape have been temporarily suspended after...

Fifteen Rwandan military medics were integral to an EAC (East African Community) armed forces civil military co-operation (CIMIC) week in Tanzania. They worked alongside soldiers...

An additional eight suspects have been arrested for inciting the 2021 July unrest that claimed over 300 lives and left a trail of destruction...

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI/Hawks) is currently probing at least 22 477 cases with a combined monetary value of about R1.5 trillion. The...

Insecurity in Nigeria has worsened. In the north-east region, despite gains recorded by the military, the activities of jihadist terrorist groups such as Boko...

Police Minister Bheki Cele has expressed concern at the country’s alarmingly high murder rates. Releasing the quarter one (Q1) crime statistics for the 2022/23 financial...

Liquor remains one of the biggest contributors of crime, says Police Minister Bheki Cele. The Minister made the observation while conducting police stations visits across...

One act was central to converting what had already been a week of killing and confrontation at Marikana in 2012 into a massacre. That...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is working to provide the South African Police Service (SAPS) with the resources it needs to carry out its...

In early June 2022, 40 people died, including children, in a mass shooting and bomb attack on a Catholic church in the city of...

Police in Gauteng have arrested 53 suspects for illegal mining while also seizing equipment during an operation in Kagiso. The weekend arrests were made by...

Transnet says the granting of peace officer status to its security officers is an important step in ramping up the fight against cable and...

The Hawks in KZN have over the weekend arrested a further three suspects for the instigation of last year’s July civil unrest that caused...

A month ago, 16 people died when more than 130 bullets were fired at the Mdlalose Tavern in Nomzamo Park informal settlement in Soweto,...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has deployed specialised units to the West Rand to flush out illegal miners said to be terrorising communities...

Escalating violence across South Africa, ranging from tavern shootings to alleged gang rapes as well as apparent extortion and torture and illegal road blockades...

Employment appears to be a point of commonality between SA Police Service (SAPS) Reservists and the Reserve Force of the SA National Defence Force...

Illegal and unregulated artisanal gold mining on the Witwatersrand Basin in Gauteng is an increasing threat to community, industrial and state security. Reports on...

At least 30 undocumented persons have been arrested in Krugersdorp during an operation led by Gauteng Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Elias Mawela. According to Gauteng...

Following a spate of mass shootings around the country, South Africa’s provincial commissioners are mobilising maximum resources towards preventing more such incidents and apprehending...

The death toll in the latest KwaZulu-Natal mass shooting has risen to seven, as police are on the manhunt for the suspects responsible for...

The South African government says that the mass arrest of over 80 illegal miners in connection with the rape of eight women in Krugersdorp...

Violent protests erupted in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in late July 2022, resulting in the deaths of at least three peacekeepers and several...

Minister of Police Bheki Cele has stated that in light of the theft of the theft of cables and other infrastructure, there is an...

On the night of 5 July 2022, 879 inmates escaped from the Kuje correctional facility in Abuja, Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko...

Police in Limpopo have arrested an additional two suspects for the brazen robbery of the Malamulele Police Station on 21 November 2021. The suspects, both...

South Africa stands on the precipice of “explosive violence” senior independent human rights experts warned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government as xenophobia, racism and hate...

In just two days in early July, 25 people were shot dead in four separate incidents at taverns across South Africa. In one of...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has set up a multi-disciplinary task team to probe and curb ongoing taxi industry-related violence in KwaZulu-Natal’s Ugu...

Police in Gauteng have launched a manhunt for unknown armed suspects after five people were fatally shot and another five injured at different locations...

Last July South Africa was hit by a wave of devastating violence that left over 350 people dead and caused massive economic damage. Different...

As South Africa last week marked the first anniversary of the July unrest that swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, the use of social...

The Sahel – a 5,000km long strip of the African continent stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea – has become the...

Four suspects were expected to appear in the Lenasia Magistrate’s Court on Monday for being in possession of allegedly stolen copper cables valued at...

Police Minister Bheki Cele says police are hot on the heels of the suspects that mowed down 15 people at a tavern in Soweto...