Delivering the State of the Province Address (SOPA) at Nasrec in Johannesburg on Monday, Lesufi confirmed that soldiers have ...

The deployment comes after more than 600 people from the Sporong informal settlement in the West Rand were chased away from their homes by the illegal miners.

The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans said while South Africa’s high murder rate demands ...

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has welcomed the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers to ...

Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that the South African National Defence Fore (SANDF) would be deployed domestically to fight crime, ...

The intervention is expected to support SAPS operations in high-risk areas, while ensuring that constitutional mandates and ...

Ramaphosa said the deployment has been necessitated by the surge in violent organised crime that was threatening both ...

Premier Panyaza Lesufi backed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to deploy soldiers to support police in combating illegal mining and gang violence.

The cost of deploying the SANDF in tackling gang violence and illegal mining in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape has not yet been established.

President Ramaphosa’s deployment of the SANDF against gangsterism overlooks critical issues, revealing the military's struggle against neglect and underfunding while failing to tackle the root causes ...

In the State of the Nation Address on 12 February 2026, I announced that we would be deploying the SANDF to support the South African Police Service (SAPS) in tackling gang violence and illegal mining ...

Panyaza Lesufi has described the move to deploy SANDF soldiers in the battle against illegal mining in the province as a ...