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The joint task force comprising the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to tackle crime will not see soldiers performing ordinary policing functions. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SANDF deployment to back police set to start on 31 March

National police commissioner Fannie Masemola said the army would play a supporting role to the South African Police Service

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Man implicated by slain Witness D survives Boksburg shooting

Wiandre Pretorius was shot at 16 times and walked away unharmed by what police believe was a targeted hit after he was implicated at the Madlanga Commission

National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. (SAPS/X)

Three suspects identified in killing of Madlanga commission’s Witness D

Police have detained one of the suspects, who is currently being questioned, national police commissioner Fannie Masemola told journalists

South African National Defence Force soldiers and South Africa Police Services (SAPS) members line up in front of the Phoenix Police Station in Durban, on July 21, 2021. File photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Hearings into July unrest expose dismal state of security cluster

As the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) concludes its first leg of the inquiry into the July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the testimonies have laid bare the…

Police Minister Bheki Cele. Photo: Supplied

Police identify 300 high risk areas during local government elections

Police minister Bheki Cele said they have identified the KZN, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces as high risk areas deploying a high contingent of police and SANDF

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Editorial: Speaking truth to power

Whistleblowers risk their happiness — and sometimes their lives — to stop the rot in government, but the laws and leaders fail to protect them.

Speak up: Former Defence and Military Veterans Minister; Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula during a media briefing. (Photo by Gallo Images / Beeld / Theana Breugem)

Top six chooses Mapisa-Nqakula as preferred parliamentary speaker candidate

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, previously the defence minister, replaces Thandi Modise, who was deployed as the minister of defence in last week’s cabinet reshuffle.

Former health minister Zweli Mkhize. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

Reshuffle: Mkhize tenders resignation as Ramaphosa calls top six meeting

Mkhize’s resignation and the top six meeting are the clearest indicators yet that Ramaphosa is intending to make a much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle

Implicated: Security companies said to have given weapons to civilians in Phoenix include Royal Security, run by Roy Moodley (in red shirt), who is close to Jacob Zuma (centre), (Photo by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Thuli Dlamini)

Zuma funder link in Phoenix killings

Weapons have been seized from a number of security companies owned by ANC-linked individuals who are loyal to the former president

Blame game: Clashes between ministers in the security cluster involve, from left, Ayanda Dlodlo, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Bheki Cele. (David Harrison/M&G)

Cabinet reshuffle not on cards yet

There are calls for the president to act against ministers said to be responsible for the state’s slow response to the unrest, but his hands are tied

Rooikat vehicles formed part of the army’s response to the July 2021 riots. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/ AFP/Getty

Security cluster disagrees over describing recent unrest as an ‘insurrection’

State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo and Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula are two leaders who disagreed with the ‘insurrection’ label, sources say

Street vendors around the mall said they were “doomed” after witnessing the damage at the mall.. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Looting, vandalism: ‘I don’t know how I am going to survive,’ says Diepkloof street vendor

People plundering shops and malls has spread, leaving a trail of devastation and loss of income and jobs

Security cluster probing messages inciting xenophobic violence

Home Affairs has issued a stern warning that those perpetuating xenophobic violence will be found and dealt with to the full might of the law.

Nkandla: Numsa calls for resignation of security cluster ministers

While criticising Jacob Zuma for allowing the spending of millions on upgrades at Nkandla, Numsa says the security cluster ministers should resign.

amaBhungane’s Lionel Faull talks us through the Nkandla report and what it means for Jacob Zuma

Court challenge to Nkandla report gets ‘president off the hook’

Security cluster ministers intend to challenge the Nkandla report in court, even though it would take something of a miracle for them to win.

Security cluster to take Madonsela’s Nkandla report to court

Cabinet’s security cluster has said it will be ordering a legal review of the Nkandla report as it is contradictory and contains "errors of law".

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Ministers seek clarity over Madonsela’s ‘confusing’ Nkandla report

Aspects of Thuli Madonsela’s report on upgrades to Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home are confusing and need clarity, say security cluster ministers.

Report on Nkandla a large scale cover-up, says Mazibuko

The DA’s Lindiwe Mazibuko has called a task team report on the security upgrades at Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead a "whitewash" and "cover-up".

Stefaans Brümmer answers questions about the legality of publishing details from the public protector provisional report into Nkandla.

Nkandla: Ministers and Madonsela agree – mostly

A Nkandla report cited by security ministers "clears" President Jacob Zuma. The public protector "damns" him. Yet they agree on much else.

Security cluster meet Mandosela over provisional Nkandla report

Security cluster ministers have met Thuli Madonsela following the M&G’s reporting on the provisional Nkandla report, says an official.