Magma Security News Today

Two KwaZulu-Natal suspects aged 33 and 41 have been arrested by the Hawks after they allegedly kidnapped six people and demanded a ransom.

South Africa’s elite Special Task Force (STF) members are leaving in droves to join private security companies where they can earn up to three times their salaries, often as protectors for high-risk businessmen and taxi bosses.

Two men allegedly linked to a cash-in-transit robbery in KwaMashu in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this month were arrested on Sunday.

An Eastern Cape court has identified and charged two men: Aviwe Jacob, 33, and Mzimkhulu Moses Rayibo, for corruption and extortion.

An Eastern Cape court has identified and charged two men: Aviwe Jacob, 33, and Mzimkhulu Moses Rayibo, for corruption and extortion.

The Hawks Eastern Cape provincial kidnapping task team made two arrests for alleged extortion, attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition on Saturday this past weekend and a third suspect died after a shoot-out with police .

Just after a week following a jewellery store robbery at a mall in Polokwane members from a multi-disciplinary operation tracked the five suspects down in KZN and arrested them.

Just after a week following a jewellery store robbery at a mall in Polokwane members from a multi-disciplinary operation tracked the five suspects down in KZN and arrested them.

Six suspects pretended to be police officers and robbed a family. Police caught them in the second alleged farm attack.

Private security experts and investigators say it took them hours to successfully negotiate the release of four people who were kidnapped in Kranskop in KZN Midlands last week.