# Police and the South African National Defence Force continue to intensify efforts aimed at disrupting and dismantling organised criminal networks involved in illicit mining, gang-related violence and other serious and violent crimes. Police spokesperson, Mpho Mathebula says during last month, coordinated multidisciplinary operations conducted across the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, North West and Western Cape provinces resulted in the arrest of one-thousand-287 suspects for a range of serious offences:
Police and SANDF continue to intensify efforts in five provinces [SOUND]
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