Strengthened oversight of South Africa’s uncontrolled private security industry will be welcome.
The proliferation of illegal weapons and failure to keep violent criminals locked up will draw more tragic massacres
Criminals have capitalised on the strong visual resemblance that imitation weapons bear to firearms
Differing interpretation of the Firearms Control Act resulted in the seizure of a shipment of billets bound for the DRC from Durban harbour last week
Improving firearms control legislation is clearly one such needed intervention to prevent the further diversion of legal guns into the hands of criminals
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change