{"id":55913,"date":"2026-08-23T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/saps-seized-100-firearms-and-ammunition-from-a-security-company-based-in-soweto-johannesburg\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:48:39","slug":"saps-seized-100-firearms-and-ammunition-from-a-security-company-based-in-soweto-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/saps-seized-100-firearms-and-ammunition-from-a-security-company-based-in-soweto-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPS seized 100 firearms and ammunition from a security company based in Soweto, Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Service (SAPS) continues to intensify its efforts to combat the proliferation and misuse of firearms through targeted operations aimed at removing illegal firearms from circulation and ensuring strict compliance with the Firearms Control Act, 60 of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Following a compliance inspection operation, members deployed under OPERATION BUYISA seized 100 firearms and ammunition from a security company based in Soweto, Johannesburg, on Saturday, 22 August 2026, for contraventions of the Firearms Control Act, 60 of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary report, the security company&#039;s Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) accreditation was recently suspended, whereafter the responsible person failed to dispose of the firearms as required.<\/p>\n<p>The compliance inspection further revealed that the company&#039;s firearm storage facility does not meet the requirements stipulated in the Act.<\/p>\n<p>The seized firearms will be subjected to ballistic testing to determine&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78369&#038;page=saps-seized-100-firearms-and-ammunition-from-a-security-company-based-in-soweto-johannesburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Service (SAPS) continues to intensify its efforts to combat the proliferation and misuse of firearms through targeted operations aimed at removing illegal firearms from circulation and ensuring strict compliance with the Firearms Control Act, 60 of 2000. Following a compliance inspection operation, members deployed under OPERATION BUYISA seized 100 firearms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/784782481_4354471628156980_7655572975507821580_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/784782481_4354471628156980_7655572975507821580_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}