# Die Gautengse LUR vir Onderwys, Lebogang Maile, sê die departement het ‘n reeks ingrypings ingestel wat daarop gemik is om skoolveiligheid te verbeter en veilige leeromgewings te skep. Dit volg op die identifisering van 245 hoërisiko-skole, wat gelei het tot geteikende ingrypings om skole te ondersteun wat verhoogde veiligheidsrisiko’s in die gesig staar. Maile […]
# The Department of Home Affairs says the first one-thousand-140 Malawian nationals processed at a repatriation site in Durban were found to be in South Africa illegally. Two-thousand-745 repatriations have been carried out by various countries since president Cyril Ramaphosa’s address on migration and illegal immigration earlier this month. The department’s deputy minister, Njabulo Nzuza, says those who […]
# Vuurwapengeweld behoort nie meer hoofsaaklik hanteer te word as ‘n strafregtelike kwessie in Suid-Afrika nie, maar ‘n volgehoue openbare gesondheidsprobleem. ‘n Studie deur navorsers aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad en Gun Free South Africa toon vuurwapen-verwante moorde het tussen 2020 en verlede jaar van 31- tot 44-persent van alle moorde toegeneem. Dean Peacock van […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says young South Africans today face a different challenge than the youth of 1976, finding their place in an economy that has for too long kept its doors closed to them. Tomorrow will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Youth Uprising. In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa says inclusive economic growth […]
# Gauteng Education MEC, Lebogang Maile, says the department has implemented a range of interventions aimed at improving school safety and creating secure learning environments. This follows the identification of 245 high-risk schools, resulting in targeted interventions to support schools facing elevated safety risks. Maile says private security services were initially deployed to 75 schools […]
# Gun violence should no longer be viewed primarily as a criminal justice issue, but as a sustained public health problem in South Africa. This is according to a new study by University of Cape Town researchers and Gun Free South Africa. Firearm-related murders increased from 31 to 44-percent of all murders between 2020 and […]
# Cape Town’s Traffic Services’ Road Safety Education section has had a busy year of conducting road safety campaigns to thousands of learners. According to the Road Traffic Management Corporation, children account for approximately 10-percent of road deaths in the country every year. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says so far, […]
# Die adjunkminister van Polisie, Polly Boshielo, verwerp bewerings dat ongedokumenteerde buitelanders geteiken word. Meer as 40-duisend onwettige buitelanders is sedert begin vanjaar aangekeer, meer as sewe-duisend net die afgelope maand, terwyl die regering onwettige immigrasie teenwerk en grensveiligheid versterk. Boshielo sê die migrasie-bestuurstrategie in verskeie staatsdepartemente fokus op alle rasse en nasionaliteite:
# Die polisie in Tshwane het die naweek 343 verdagtes vir verskeie misdade aangekeer tydens ‘n multi-dissiplinêre misdaad-voorkomingsoptrede in Brooklyn en Sunnyside. Die misdade wissel van poging tot moord en gewapende roof tot besit van en handel in dwelms. Polisiewoordvoerder Johan van Dyk sê inspeksies het ook gefokus op immigrasie-verwante kwessies en sake-voldoening:
