Overview
- Senior leadership is visibly directing operations, with Lieutenant-General Koliswa Otola leading Northern Cape deployments and Deputy Minister Polly Boshielo assessing strategies in Upington.
- A week-long Northern Cape push stopped and searched 14,549 people and 6,606 vehicles and resulted in 383 arrests for offences ranging from drug crimes to violent assaults.
- Compliance inspections in the province shut 39 unlicensed liquor outlets and yielded seizures of illicit alcohol, drugs and dangerous weapons.
- A Garies roadblock intercepted a courier vehicle carrying a dagga parcel worth about R28,400, and an enquiry into the shipment was opened.
- Road-safety enforcement escalated in other provinces, with 451 drunk‑driving arrests reported in the Eastern Cape since December 12 and about 60 suspects due in Mpumalanga courts after a weekend sweep that netted 88 alleged offenders.