Ministers from South Africa and Zimbabwe have discussed mutual issues of defence and security.<\/p>\n
They’ve pledged to strengthen the fight against cross-border crime, using intelligence agencies from both countries.<\/p>\n
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been quick to dismiss claims that migrants are responsible for most crimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not just foreign nationals who are involved in soft criminality,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Our correctional facilities are overflowing and 99% of people who are in our correctional facilities are in fact South Africans.\u201d<\/p>\n
They’ve also discussed the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe has praised its neighbour for how it dealt with the violence.<\/p>\n
With 27 signed memorandums of understanding and agreements between them, South Africa and Zimbabwe continue to build their relationship.<\/p>\n
The two countries have further committed to strengthening their security relations while helping to maintain peace and stability in the SADC region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ministers from South Africa and Zimbabwe have discussed mutual issues of defence and security. They’ve pledged to strengthen the fight against cross-border crime, using intelligence agencies from both countries. Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been quick to dismiss claims that migrants are responsible for most crimes. \u201cIt is not just foreign nationals who are involved … Continue reading “SA, Zim cement defence and security”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3269,7278,1043,1905,180],"class_list":["post-18878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-defence","tag-peace","tag-sadc","tag-security","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18879,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions\/18879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}