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The DA wants both the March 2025 PSiRA firearm regulation amendments and the Firearms Control Amendment Bill withdrawn, arguing they duplicate controls and weaken armed response capacity.
SAPS statistics put truck hijackings at 30-35 a week, and freight security spend has climbed from 0.3% to 2.3% of operating costs in a decade - up to 4.1% for high-value cargo.
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia met the private security industry ahead of the 30 June demonstrations, agreeing information sharing and joint planning with SAPS as key risk measures.
Ahead of the 30 June protests, Fidelity activated its National Joint Operations Centre and put helicopters, drones and armoured vehicles on standby, naming Durban and Gauteng hotspots.
A BOLO loaded onto Vumacam's SafeCity LPR network let Gauteng e-Government operators track a hijacked vehicle and feed real-time intelligence to officers, who recovered it on the M1.
The Cape Town smart-security firm behind 500,000+ app users is launching its own wireless alarm ecosystem with long-range HALO radio, dual-SIM 4G and Optex-partnered sensors.
Industry updates, regulations & technology
AfriForum counted 184 farm attacks and 29 murders in 2025 - attacks up on 2024 - with Gauteng worst hit and over half of victims aged 61 or older.
Grade A officers in metro areas now earn a minimum R8,184/month (R39.35/hr); Area 3 Grade A is R7,142. Allowances: R10.50/shift armed, R8 night shift. Employers must apply the rates from 1 March 2026.
Facial recognition and fingerprint checks linked to Home Affairs verified 997,379 grant recipients and suspended 68,000 grants - with claimed fraud savings above R1 billion.
Category 1 employees now attract a R9.40 monthly council levy (Category 2: R2.50), effective 1 March 2026. Schedules and payments remain due by the 7th of each month via the Umhlaba portal.
A private security special-ops team and SAPS stopped a fleeing Hyundai i20 fitted with false plates, recovering a remote signal jammer, break-in tools and stolen goods.
Forty years in, the FAAC-owned Joburg manufacturer has brought outsourced production home from China and the Philippines, doubled night shifts and now exports to 72 countries.
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