Late on Monday night video footage circulated rapidly on social media of members of the South African Police Service’s VIP Protection Unit viciously assaulting three motorists on the N1 Highway near ...

Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has revealed that nearly R2.5 billion could be spent on VIP protection services for the president and his Cabinet ministers in the 2026/2027 financial year. In a ...

The eight members of the police VIP protection unit seen in video footage of the assault on motorists on the N1 in Johannesburg have been suspended. National police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola ...

One of the police VIP protection unit officers linked to an assault on the N1 earlier this month on Monday said the now-viral video depicting the incident was not a “true reflection” of events that ...

In 2025, the Tshwane council passed a motion to have all VIP protection officers in its metro police department paid a monthly allowance of R35,000 in lieu of overtime.

Nearly R360 million in overtime has been paid by the South African Police Service (Saps) to members of the VIP protection unit over the past two years. This was disclosed in a written parliamentary ...

In the wake of a shocking spending splurge on additional VIP protection by the City of Johannesburg (CoJ), Daily Maverick has learnt that a security risk assessment, which is a requirement for VIP ...

A report recently tabled to council shows this allowance would be paid to the officers whether they are sick or on leave. Tshwane Mayor Nasiphi Moya ahead of delivering her first State of the Capital ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa will examine the expenditure of VIP protection services, following a report by the Institute of Race Relations which calls the service "a complex and secretive machine that ...