Tag: border protection
Soldiers stopped drugs worth R10 million entering SA in August
Mozambique and Eswatini were the largest unofficial drug exporters to South Africa in August, according to statistics supplied by the Joint Operations Division of...
Armscor issues eagerly awaited border patrol APC bid
The South African Army’s long search for armoured personnel carriers (APCs) for border patrol duty is moving forward, with an invitation to bid from...
SANDF soldiers curb contraband pipelines
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers deployed along South Africa’s land borders with Lesotho and Zimbabwe had their hands full preventing over R10...
AU sees borders as “bridges of solidarity”
The African Union (AU) border programme (AUBP), started 14 years ago, is an endeavour by the continental body to transform borders into “bridges of...
Soldiers confiscate R6 million plus worth of contraband from Zimbabwean smugglers
Zimbabweans seemingly rule the roost when it comes to moving illegal goods, be it drugs or contraband, into South Africa.
Evidence of this comes from...
Drugs worth over R6 million seized during April Operation Corona patrols
SA Army soldiers posted on KwaZulu-Natal’s borders with Eswatini and Mozambique prevented over R5.5 million worth of illegal drugs from reaching South African users...
Border protection tasking sees soldiers confiscate contraband, return livestock and nab...
Border patrols by South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers are yielding significant results, with recent reports highlighting the persistence of the illegal cigarette...
Op Corona patrols net 600 plus illegals in November
A month’s work of patrolling mostly inhospitable terrain along South Africa’s land borders saw thinly spread SA Army regular and reserve soldiers net 607...
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...
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...
R85 million worth of technology didn’t reach SANDF soldiers on the...
The Joint Operations Division of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) had the wool well and truly pulled over its eyes by the officer...
Soldiers stop six thousand plus illegal immigrants in December
The presence of soldiers to, amongst others, deter and prevent illegal immigration on South Africa’s landward borders, appears to be working when taking latest...
Another busy month for SANDF soldiers on border protection duty
Regular and Reserve Force soldiers by and large continue working to the best of their ability with limited support to stop the continued inflow...
Cross-border vehicle theft syndicates a headache for soldiers
One of the multiple tasks soldiers deployed on border protection have is preventing stolen vehicles leaving the country – a multi-million Rand criminal industry...
Dagga, drugs, counterfeit goods and a firearm in Op Corona December...
Dagga is not, according to soldiers posted on the South Africa/Zimbabwe border, an often transported illegal commodity. This was shown up by a R1,5...
Additional border safeguarding initiatives detailed by Joint Operations
The Joint Operations Division of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has been allocated additional funding for border safeguarding initiatives, and this includes...
Soldiers intercept two thousand plus illegal immigrants in October
Contraband and drugs with a value in excess of R8 million were confiscated by soldiers protecting South Africa’s territorial integrity as per the Operation...
Soldiers stop illegal immigrants; confiscate contraband, dagga and stolen vehicles
In the 2020/21 financial year soldiers on border protection duty apprehended more than 21 000 illegal immigrants averaging out at 1 775 a month – around...
Most used illegal border crossings to SA are with three countries
The “most popular” countries when it comes to illegal entry or smuggling contraband into South Africa are Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Residents from these countries...
Illegal immigrants, livestock, narcotics, stolen vehicles – all in an Op...
“Ops normal” is probably the best way to sum up the national defence force’s ongoing border protection tasking which in the three months ending...
Border protection prevents drugs worth millions reaching South Africa
People seeking a better life than what is on offer in their own countries continue illegal pilgrimages to South Africa as evidenced by the...
Op Corona stops contraband, recovers stolen vehicles and nabs illegals
Recovery of stolen livestock and vehicles, confiscation of contraband and apprehension of “undocumented persons” remain the major components of the work done by soldiers...
Soldiers recover three vehicles worth R900 000
Two incidents of soldiers preventing stolen high-end off-road vehicles leaving South Africa give insight into another area of work apart from apprehending undocumented persons...
Stolen copper recovered during border ops
Copper is the latest addition to the growing list of goods confiscated by soldiers protecting “South Africa’s territorial integrity” as part of the Operation...
eSwatini, Mozambique border ops net narcotics and vehicles
Stolen vehicle recovery and confiscating narcotics top the list of recent successes for an SA Army infantry unit doing duty as part of Operation...
Soldiers on border protection recover livestock worth R800 000
Official border protection statistics collected, collated and released by the Joint Operations Division of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) show cross-border livestock theft...
Parliamentarians see border protection ops “in the flesh”
In what one called “an eye opener” a contingent of Parliamentarians saw for themselves what is – and isn’t - happening on South Africa’s...
Op Corona confiscations continue
Cigarettes, vehicles and wool are included in the latest contraband seizures by soldiers deployed on the border protection tasking Operation Corona.
Fifty-two bags of wool...
R50 million set aside for Jersey barrier border protection in KZN
Patrol and intelligence gathering work on at least one section of South Africa’s land border is being made easier by installation of concrete Jersey...
“Undocumented persons” entering South Africa on the rise
As South Africa moved into a “lighter” lockdown level in September, soldiers on border protection had to contend with increased levels of smuggling and...
Border protection remains thin due lack of funds
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, trotted out the by-now hackneyed excuse of “budgetary constraints” when answering a Parliamentary question about...
Cigarettes, dagga confiscated, vehicles recovered by border protection patrols
Cigarettes make up the majority of recent confiscations by soldiers on border protection duty, with dagga and illegal immigrants adding to the recent success...
Soldiers confiscate R1.4 million worth of cigarettes on SA borders
Two separate cigarette “interceptions” by soldiers in the last week again show the ease with which smugglers breach thinly protected borders and just how...
Op Corona border patrols net contraband worth R13 million
Further proof of the porosity of South Africa’s borders, particularly those on land, comes from the Joint Operations Division of the national defence force...
Border safeguarding is a Department of Defence priority
In its strategic plan for the five year period ending 2025, the Department of Defence (DoD) focuses on a number of issues it sees...
Border safeguarding is a Department of Defence priority
In its strategic plan for the five year period ending 2025, the Department of Defence (DoD) focuses on a number of issues it sees...
Call for heightened land border protection in the face of COVID-19
South Africa’s ports of entry are covered by Department of Health representatives supported by military medics checking for coronavirus but what about the thousands...
Border protection needs high tech equipment to up performance
The national border protection tasking Operation Corona is widely acknowledged as one powered more by people than any high-tech equipment and questions...
Contraband netted, livestock recovered – all in a day’s work for...
In line with current defence planning, Operation Corona is as of June staffed by 15 newly deployed companies from both the full-time...
The SA Army specialist infantry capability – an integral part of...
The SA Army Specialist Infantry Capability, better known by its acronym SAASIC, provides the Infantry Formation with more mobility via the use...
Soldiers do their best to plug South Africa’s porous borders
While not soldiering in the true sense of the word, the deployment of more than 2 700 soldiers on "border duty" has...
All change for Op Corona deployment
The thinly stretched camouflage line ensuring at least some territorial integrity along South Africa's land borders is rotating with 15 new companies...
South Africa’s border protection is in the hands of 2 700...
The border protection tasking assigned to the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) by Cabinet currently sees just over two thousand seven hundred...
Op Corona nets contraband and dagga worth just on R7 million...
South African soldiers confiscated dagga worth more than R5 million during border protection patrols in June and July and seized contraband valued...
Op Corona nets contraband and dagga worth just on R7 million...
South African soldiers confiscated dagga worth more than R5 million during border protection patrols in June and July and seized contraband valued...
Feature: Protecting South Africa’s borders
Protecting a nation's borders was among the first tasks to fall to armies. Similarly, protecting a nation's waters and its seaborne trade...
Contraband, dagga and illegals all grabbed in Op Corona net
It's been business as usual in the first seven weeks of the year for soldiers deployed on border protection, with contraband valued...
Op Corona sees dagga and other contraband worth more than R77...
The porosity of South Africa's land borders along with a lack of resources to properly patrol them continues to make the country...
Large quantities of T-shirts and running shoes confiscated in Op Corona...
SA Army soldiers seized contraband valued at over R1.4 million in a busy weekend for the SA National Defence Force's (SANDF) border...
New “mobility packages” will up the Army’s border protection capability
What SA National Defence Force chief, General Solly Shoke, calls "mobility packages" are replacements for the modified 4x4 bakkies used as the...
