A SAPS Grahamstown highway patrol on the N2 this week netted illegal firearms that had been hidden in the secret comnpartments of a vehicle heading towards Peddie. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said South African Police…
The police commissioner of operational response services Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has overseen the destruction of 35,069 firearms which were either confiscated by the police, voluntary surrendered to or forfeited to the state. The…
A team of investigators has been assembled to probe the discovery of an arms cache recovered by police from the Raubenheimer Dam, outside Oudtshoorn, in the Little Karoo, over the past two days, Western Cape police said. “Members attached…
An assortment of weapons was found in one of the unoccupied doctors’ quarters at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in the early hours of Sunday. The health department said it consisted of 47 bullets, three 9mm hand guns, two pepper…
Police have urged illegal gun owners to take advantage of the new firearm amnesty which came into force on Saturday. Parliament this week approved a new six-month amnesty till the end of January next year. “The previous amnesty period…
A complaint about a man threatening staff at a motor dealership quickly spiralled into an incident involving illegal guns, stacks of money and an ocean of booze. Three members of Cape Town’s “ghost squad” of undercover traffic officers…
Police arrested a 25-year old man with an AK-47 and 18 rounds of ammunition during an intelligence raid in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. KZN SAPS spokesman Colonel Thembeka Mbele said an intelligence-driven operation conducted in the Msinga…
Bank Lane in Port Alfred, a main arterial road between the CBD and Nemato, was closed off last Thursday by police and security companies as SAPS investigated a robbery at the Gidana Arms and Sports store on the corner of Bank Lane and…
