Weapons

South Africans’ history taught us the cost of inhumanity and that it was defeated by resistance, so we must not be indifferent to those building inequality in the world

In 2023, South Africa sold nearly R88 million worth of arms to the United Arab Emirates, to support a paramilitary group in Sudan

Police report that between January and October last year, there were 922 armed robberies, up from 744 during the same period in 2020

Police have caught wind of plans for a second phase of violence after last week’s riots, apparently set to kick off with the looting of arms in KwaZulu-Natal

For several years, the Republic of the Congo has been quietly buying an arsenal from Azerbaijan, with the latest cache arriving before next month’s election

Ugandan and Israeli activists have called for the licence permitting arms sales to be revoked, but expect next week’s hearing to be held in camera

Between 2015 and the end of 2017, South Africa transferred $62-million worth of major conventional weapons to the UAE

South Africa’s jails have one of the lowest percentages of women prisoners in the world – but among the highest number of men

In many ways, the two armies are miles apart but they face many similar challenges

One way to slow the death rate down is to cut the number of illegal guns in circulation.

VR Laser Asia will sell Denel technology so that it can be manufactured in India.

Police statistics in SA show a worrying trend: the increased use of illegal small arms and light weapons in the country’s problem of violent crime.

Protesters have called on commissioner Riah Phiyega and Minister Nathi Nhleko to ban the use of R5 assault rifles in public order policing.

Simply seeing a weapon – whether a sword, rifle, hand grenade, dagger, tank or gun – makes people more aggressive.

There’s something dangerously sexy about uniforms and weapons, and spyware that lets you into secret places.