Borders Episode 1: Guns, Drugs and People
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Guns, drugs, people, vehicles and counterfeit merchandise. These are smuggled across South Africa's borders daily. But on the line, the military plays cat-and-mouse with criminal syndicates as they try and one-up the border patrols.
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That is such a dangerous job. God protect them
I blame politician every country in this continent have their own rich.
WOW this is GREAT JOB. Our soldiers are really protecting our borders
The same that the SADF did and died under worse conditions but the don't even get a thanks but to say thanks to this useless people called an army that smeerd the great name of South Africa thru the mud
@@mbongenimhlongo6807 Njomane ziphathe kahle awbazi yin ubunzima esibuthwele ngenxa yokweqwa kwemincele ngokungemthetho
South Africa cant afford to host every country is to much the poeple of Douth Africa sre also suffering Affican poeple need to fight their corrupt Leaders unlike running to South Africa no is to much for our country we take that influx of poeple running away from their countrys
What do you mean south africa is a very rich nation
If a European country did the same they'd be called racist
Great spelling
well said, don't care about spelling I felt every word.
i'm coming to SANDF to protect my country
Good job to SANDF,but I feel as though their efforts are in vain,the state must support the program,these guys need resources such as drones,quad bikes,infrared cameras,night visions,paper spray,Taser and more advanced equipment which are lighter and easy to carry etc.I am sure we can build a better border than just a standard fence.We can do better,government must come on board and fully support our security agencies and no expense must be spared.
I 100% agree, more resources are needed at the borders, I see good men are working tirelessly but lack efficiency n the consequence of that is what we see happening in the country, we keep seeing more n more of undocumented foreigners
South Africa constantly has people running across the border and the country is on it’s knees. We keep giving warnings to those people to extents that some kill them yet they still come and try to destroy what we built up.
It’s like building a huge Sandcastle and a bunch of 8 year olds come and jump on it.
it's bad 👎 😕
Well done to these guys at SANDF.. A little goes a long way
If I was one of these Officers, I'd be arrested by now🤬😡
You can't train me so hard and so much to go play tag with illegal foreigners at the boarder.
Lehlogonolo Sylvester me too will shoot the head once!
No, they must bleksem them, that's it. Don't kill
Such operations are used to give new guys exposure to the real world, they are mixed with the experienced to learn some lessons.
Lol😂😂😂😂 "play tag"
Border ops are usually given to the new soldiers, after that they get sent to jungle warfare training and then to the DRC to fight ADF terrorists, it's just some exposure. The real war awaits them.
Eish! it hurts watching women going through this with babies on their backs, you can only imagine what they are fleeing from their countries, but great work guys!
the great work part is a complete msunery
Gatvol Grabouwer
Ya they are fleeing from corrupt leaders like the ANC by fleeing straight into a ANC controlled country🤣🤣🤣
Nice one buddy
I don’t like the ANC but I believe they are gonna be more ethical and efficient in the management of the country under Cyril ramaphosa
@@solrhopalocera5704 2 idiots' caucus. white tax msoon
Nkululeko Ngwenya why can't they go to borders legally?
Nothing but to come and receive grant and back home... Go and see for urslf month end ... That's where our tax is disappearing to
These people need to be arrested and put into a sort of boarder prison or something like that because like he said 3 hours and you see them again .
A border prison where South Africa can feed and shelter them for a couple of days? Nice.
It is useless trying to add them to an offenders / border jumpers register, because they probably don't carry their documentation on them - so no way to identify them. If only there was some way to mark them? Maybe a brand or something? Then you know that if they get across next time and aren't caught - that no-one should hire/employ someone with that brand on them...? Just an idea... Then they will come to realise that they are scarred for life for doing something that is illegal.
If we're going to hold them in detention (if we manage to catch them) - then they should probably be made to work on a chain gang or something, at least that way they can pay for their accommodation and the inconvenience caused (and the soldier's salary).
Hell, after watching this... I'd also just ignore the army patrols... and just make sure I can outrun them... because I know now that they can't shoot at me. The probably can't even flick my ear or stand on my toe.... so why would I stop doing this. I haven't seen anything in this video to dissuade anyone from trying to jump the border illegally (case in point: 06:28). Even the Colonel says it's catch and release, so that they can try again the next day.
There should be a strip of no man's land, which if you enter - you're at risk of being shot. Protect the borders.
At least the army might have some success at curbing smuggling, but like other comments suggest.... if the price is right... I'm sure they look the other way.
@@Jonathan_Strange with regards to making a registry, finger print, they are portable so they can log them as they catch them
Put them in camps and farmers must collect the to work n return them to prison.
You guys need k-9 units and drones for support
like the old days neh
They have
@@ginger0208 root out corruption and establish strong institutions and accountability.
@@ginger0208 SA needs spec ops units kitted with latest gear. Aerial platforms also need to be utilized for extractions and real time monitoring movement on the border
"madala... Le etsang lere sokodisa" 😹😹😹
That part killed me yoohhh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💔💔💔
We need solutions from what I see there's no stopping people coming into south Africa. Look at the fance I can't even put that rubbish around my house to protect me from criminals. That's a waist of time .
Vektor SS-77 GPMG is my favorite one from SA Military.
Greeting from Pekanbaru, Riau State, Indonesia🇮🇩
Okay enough. I want in. Where do I sign up for this?
join the south African army go for infantry
That y u never b accepted even if there was a war
@@Andrewza1 I saw a lot of parabats here as well, but they were the older kind, probably back from DRC
Thanks for this, to see SANDF in action plus acting ethically
It's just for the cameras most of these guys take money from people crossing the border illegally
That's the issue. We need harsher punishments. These illegal migrants are putting pressure on our infrastructure
Can government put R80k into the officers bank accounts every month not R11k
R11k isn't too bad many make much less.
80k are you stupid? A soldier in the SANDF don't even get more than 12k. You are corrupt thats why you just money.
This is great, we just need to see this type of patrols more frequent and along the entirety of the South African border. Otherwise it helps nothing.
Ballator Dei these patrols are expensive and time consuming, something needs to be done. Why is it that every African is distress must come to the RSA?
Because it is run by criminals who only want their pockets fat.
They patrol everywhere, from East to West and the coastal border is patrolled by MRS
Love our brave solers my dad is a solder go Sa
06:30, lmao, he was like i need that green card tho, 07:16 my guy was just chilling in the bushes unbothered lol
🤣🤣🙆 bona nothing can bother madala
Lol
Respect!
21sai battalion I love my unit
Good report
Foreigners crossing in South Africa without proper documents should be arrested and be jailed
Gosh this is a cat and mouse game, I feel sorry for these soldiers, Malema is right....
Bongani Tshabalala Malema is stupid. Malema wants to open the borders which will just make it worse. Our country is already dying from them and he wants it to go extreme. Hopefully oneday we do grow strong in South Africa then we can unite the whole of Souther Africa.
I blame Mandela for all this..
Great work guys 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Night patrols for a rookie must be extremely nerve racking
Even if you lived in the bushz it's a lot different when you live there, and when your actively hunting humans who could be hunting you lol, these guys are tough as nails,I'd feel a very close bond with the animals if I worked there I know money talks, but idk it's my nature to love animals I don't think I'd accept a payment to turn a blind eye to poaching,I don't want a world where if god let's me have a child they ask me "Father what where rhinos?" As if they were dinosaurs ,I know when a person has a family and they are hungry your morals go to the wind so I don't judge,great piece man
God bless
Where is the old electric fence??
To expensive to maintain
They need more funding, SANDF should have a border division (wing) whose sole purpose is border protection. Similar to India
Whats the point you catch them and they return in the next few hours.Solution is for Mozambique to develop so that the people dont have to run away. We need to help that government.
They must just kill this bastard n the conflict between SA n mozambip was not a mistake thnk 2 mzmp arm dead at a shooting 😭😁
Nope bad idea they should shoot and kill
DONT WANA BE UGLY BUT THIS IS WHY LAND MINES ARE SO EFECTIVE
Sit!... Guy was like "why" lmao
A man who becomes a soldier and protect his territory he is King Solomon .
Bravo!
so well done - guys on making this illustration - but we all know what the answer should be....HELP US HELP YOU
They must build a great great wall
Yes you tock the words out if my mouth we need to help south africa out with there wall when ours is done
For who ? We all deserve better life , I don’t blame them nor the maxicans from jumping the fence.
Drones, wall, sentry guns....there are easier ways to do this.
Pay for it then.
Lol sentry guns bro! You really wanna kill em
@Kurishev Tulipov you do realize that killing these people without a reason would bring us international sanctions again and our economy literally relies on imports...we would go under very fast
Next time, try and put landmines across the border
Salute to your soldiers keeping us safe.
Military Rules of Engagement : South African law does NOT allow soldiers to shoot unarmed civilians, of course it would be a horrible thing to be a heavily armed solider and find yourself in a job where you have to shoot a poor woman WITH a child every single day and the woman/women you brutally shoot pose NO threat to you whatsoever, so it is OUT of the question to even have these soldiers so heavily-armed in the first place. Secondly, as the corporal explains, the only thing you can do with an illegal Mozambican trespasser is to take him/her back to the border gate, force her to cross the border BACK into her country/Mozambique, and in 3 to 4 hours YOU WILL see here again because she will obviously try to cross the border again because SHE WANTS to ENTER the country. So the solider patrol is NOT an effective solution because ultimately the soldier must go home or rest or knock off, so the trespassers eventually WILL WIN because they have a FAR more solid motivation to get INTO South Africa than the solider's motivation to STOP them :) I think SANDF should abandon this operation and focus their resources on other more worthwhile tasks such as solider training and development. There is REALLY no need for them to be involved in border patrol and spend the whole day/week in the heat doing such a senseless activity !
Yabheda bafo.
@@bulelanibaqwa Ushuk'thi ngi ya bheda ngis' emBhedeni baba 😊😁 ?? You mean I am in bed bafo, ne 😁😁 ??
Govment must build a big big strong wall.plz
for what are you mad do you know who even created these borders in Africa kkkkk kkkk ...shame on you ...you think you are in heaven yet you are living in hell. um disappointed in your stupidity.
the members who deployed on the border post should be well equipped and have night versions to be able to in the dark.radios should be for the reciever to hear traffic or massages.where there is no law, there is no life.
why dont they build the high walls in stead to cheap fence to solve this problem
you want to pay for it
They must stop taking bribes.. And do their jobs.....high walls who Is going pay for them
@@Andrewza1 We need to pay for it. SA should put South Africans first. Passed our borders isn't our problem.
@@user-jr2ue9nu6y you are correct i would not be opposed to a increase in the SANDF budget with the idea of better border control. Thing is most people want other stuff even more
@@Andrewza1 There is money. The ANC wastes it.
Ayi suka kudlalwa ngathi lana kungani kungakhiwa udonga olude ayi ucingo bayasigulela ngoba lant bagcwaliswa ngama bomu kanti abafake udonga
wish you did not add the music
Except reggae man from God rest his soul Lucky Dube
Those people must stay at their country
Thanks Thomas very interesting doccie and very insightful... It's so sad on how we as South African's work hard to build a brighter future for ourselves then illegal foreign nationals just come take whatever that you have worked hard for, worse now that employment is extremely rife for South African citizens. We go to school, universities and colleges then illegal foreigners with or without permits come and snatch off our job's, be it through nepotism or cheap labor which is undocumented; above all poaching our animals, killing our citizens especially when being hi-jacked, house robbed and etc. Then our leadership keeps on drinking tea, have lunches with people who kill us as South African's. People who care-less about South Africa nor its future. ANC must fall... Enough is Enough, Orania leadership style must rule South Africa.
WE NEED A PART 2 "THOMAS"
There is actually a Carte blanche episode from 1 year ago at Beytbridge where you see the actuall corruption by the SANDF
Well done keep it up
Keep up the good work police
Detainees will be free after 24 hours, and do the same thing the following day, so it's cat and mouse game
Why they not close openings on fence because military will not always there.
Pray for what it is you need.
They need a bunch of Belgian malinois
I think they already use those dogs on patrol in and around the park.
Still don't understand why they are using such poor systems to monitor the situation
Right ? The other problem should the money to actually put in a better system comes in the government will steal it . We have the most evil people in positions of power making decisions for the majority. I mean putting up a wall and measures or rules in place to allow people to come in and out and be tracked isn't exactly rocket science . ..Plus if you look around there's so much work to help some people find a better life . AFRICA has enough people to do the work of machines or services that we get abroad . But these evil folks don't want that as they look out for self. That's the theme in Africa , and sadly we have ourselves to blame because it's all about self love , and evolving and moving on as people we cannot blame our oppressors forever. But we refuse to see the bigger picture . A lot of homes dont teach this.
South Africa has a lot of unemployed young people. The only solution is to train much more of them because of the many borders SA have. Bring back electric fences and people will have respect and come the right way. Vehicles theft, drugs and other criminal activities will suffer. Our soldiers will not have to waste time on this cats and mouse chase and they can't even use rubber bullets or teargas, they are humans too .
Unfortunately the reason why Rhino deaths in the park has declined is bcos there army arnt any Rhino left to poach😑
One thing I love about this is that they arent allowed to shoot them. At least we know they are safe. One bad thing I hate about this, is that they allow the paying criminals to go through daily
The Parachute Batallion are doing this, where are the infantry batallions?
He is the commanding officer of 21 infantry battalion. He most likely served with 44 para regiment before he went to 21 sai that's probably why he still wears the para beret
All SA, all of them soldiers must be deployed to guarding the borders fences and gates, honestly what else are they doing
Great video
south africa should use drones,its very affective.More unemployed youth should be trained and used to guard our borders.These guys are doing their best but its just not enough,i feel like the anc is not paying attention to our borders,they are not even mentioning it in paliarment.
Good job not to shoot unharmed people
Interesting seeing the R1
For our soldiers its tough.But what about the other side.Mozambique forces none.Zimbabwe forces also none.
Am I right at the period apartheid so many South Africa flies to other country. I think this country treat South Africa good.
Useless police,traffic cops and various government officials drive around in expensive cars yet these guys who needs vehicles really badly dont have i😑
Looool 3-4 hours, what's the point??
They should get tazed then maybe they won't come back after 3 hours, or might aswell just open the borders
best way to stop them coming back, shoot first time
Good job bois
Things change here in it Africa one it would be South africans running to Zimbabwe all African countries they’re like this Zimbabwe was once Rich so love your neighbor as you love your Self you’ll find yourself running one day
They just have to come legally.is that too much for them
Im glad you said zimbabwe was once rich
Didnt they know what drone for?
Drone battery does not last even an hour...
At 6:57, Lieutenant Colonel Sthabataba, I know him from when he was a corporal at the SAI 21 Battalion in Lenz. Salute
This would be sorted out in weeks if the private sector was let loose, only the govt is in the way to sort crime out in south africa
Drones technology can go a long way. They are much cheaper. They can survey kilometre radii .
Turn the electric fence back on
what a hard job for the army
dump system hayi sukah.. what is the point of carrying heavy guns while those illegal immigrants could eliminate you in order to pass the border or poach?
You are stupud
Best army in SADC
I like this job serious.
Life is a journey
These guys escort the kwerekwere to cross in, taking kickbacks from all the loot smuggled out and in
Why is Mozambique not doing anything? We help them!? How do they help us?
Where is part 2?
the fence is like a garden fence, erect one like between mexico and usa and have guards patrol it, come on guys.
Costs too much
when will south African borders be renewed
LUNATHI NGANTWENI elect a man like trump he’s the only man for the job
When you stop voting anc
I don't understand y they don't use heat sensors tht can can distinguish between human and animal and use drones aswell
So y'all the fools that let em in. Pitiful
GOOD JOB SA ARMY
I heard that Even security guards are employed here on the boarder to help the soldiers is this true
Build that wall it will help you guys
Lol they'll obviously go under it
Before the Europeans arrived in Africa , there where no boder fences ,no countrys called South Africa ou Mozambique. These people (zulos and shangans) belonged to the same tribe and roamed the land at will.
There should be no borders between African country
Problem it's hunger
South Africa must just build a huge wall fence like the US and Mexico border simple! And take no bribes at all! And really jack up the technology on our borders cz really what they are doing now is a waste of time!
What gun
We lov u guys keep pushing