Private Security in South Africa Comes at a Cost

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Private Security in South Africa Comes at a Cost


There are more than double the number of private security officers than police officers and national military combined in South Africa. This can be helpful to communities who feel underserved by their own countries. But like with any privatization efforts, there are major drawbacks. VICE News looks at the impact in Durban, the starting point of…

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  1. Saar Endea is world toilet 🇳🇪🇳🇪🇳🇪 Saar Endea beats everything in crime poverty and inflation saar Endea is best country in the world 🇳🇪🇳🇪🔥

  2. Saar Endea is world toilet 🇳🇪🇳🇪🇳🇪 Saar Endea beats everything in crime poverty and inflation saar Endea is best country in the world 🇳🇪🇳🇪🔥

  3. Could have been a good video. It was chaos and violence. The Security companies are our superheros. To paint them as these racist power driven people is pathetic. Majority of South Africans are black. You didn't see any whites, coloureds or indians looting. SO if they were focusing of the majority of people doing it, they are doing their job.

  4. i've watched 100ds of vice news videos and now that i've seen this one from my country i've realised how incompetent and unprepeared they are an how easily they can shift a narative for them to get the most clicks honestly its a joke

  5. Domestic calls are fraught and I would advise against responding officers becoming emotionally reactive. A lot of these local women are every bit as dramatic as their western counterparts. I remember one incident among many when reacting to a commotion where a woman in an apartment was literally screaming as if she were in the process of being murdered. I had seldom heard screaming like that that made my blood run cold. When I and several residents arrived literally ready to apply deadly force and fearing the scene which no doubt we were going to be witness too, all that was happenning was the male had had enough and was packing his bags to take off. In the chaos and confusion, she was sitting back in her chair sounding off, after questioning her it became evident that she was performing in the hopes that somone would assault the guy who was leaving (simply because he was leaving) knowing full well that people would automatically assume she was the victim of some kind of so-called GBV.

  6. Let me get this right. You go to someone else’s land and complain how they are conducting themselves on their own indigenous lands. You cannot make this up… if they don’t like the people or they believe the crime is too much and the politics is corrupt then just go home to your own land. Problem solved.

  7. Whats weird is that the private security think their police so they think they can do whatever the police can but thats not true and should never be leave it for the police i understand they want to help but it goes to their head if a private security member ever tries to arrest you just remember the duties of private security personnel are only valid when there is an imminent offence, and the suspect is fleeing from arrest. Any arrest made without meeting these criteria ventures into the territory of kidnapping, particularly if the offence does not fall under Schedule 1 meaning he/she can only civilian arrest just like you

  8. Ah VICE, you always have your angle, tell me, if the private security company was so racist, why do they hire black south africans (8:32 in your video)? Foreign media thinking they know what goes on in our country, they pass judgement from their ivory towers, and send an uneducated (in terms of south africa) journalist to get the clef notes and paint their own picture.