Hopefully this isn’t a sign of things to come for the World Cup.  I know a few readers are involved with the private side of security for this event in South Africa, and I wish you guys all the best. -Matt
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Police escort Ivory Coast’s soccer team from Angola on Saturday. 
Togo Deaths Stir Fear Ahead […]

   Boy, I would not want to be in a military where 30% of it’s soldiers had AIDS.  These men and women could potentially infect others, both through sexual activity, but also through the gruesomeness of warfare. An IED will take one man’s fluids, and inject them into another’s body, through the means of an […]

As the movie begins, a wave of violent prawn unrest — not unlike the one that rocked South Africa’s real townships only last month — has prompted the good people of Jo’burg to crave even greater distance from their subhuman neighbors, and a forced relocation of all alien residents to a Guantánamo-style tent city known […]

   Rest in peace, and condolences to the friends and family of Duncan.  The website below didn’t have a press release yet, and is pretty thin on info.  -Matt
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SA ex-cop killed in Uganda crash
The Times 
Published:Mar 11, 2009
A former special operations policeman from Pretoria was among 11 people killed in a plane crash in Uganda this […]

   I would like to do a little promotion of a blog, of a very significant company and individual that certainly has had an impact on the industry.  Mr. Barlow and his company called Executive Outcomes was very busy in Africa back in the day.  EO’s accomplishments are legendary, and I highly recommend reading the […]

SA ‘heroes’ save Mumbai hostages
November 28, 2008
BBC
A team of South African bodyguards have been explaining how they led 120 hostages to safety from a hotel seized by gunmen in the Indian city, Mumbai.
The guards, armed only with knives and meat cleavers, helped other hotel guests to safety down a fire escape.
They carried a traumatised old […]