In 2016, Vereeniging-based cop Colonel Chris Lodewyk Prinsloo pleaded guilty to selling firearms to Cape Flats gangs and other criminal networks. Prinsloo, a custodian of a SAPS armoury, confessed to selling 2,400 firearms, but Irish-Qhobosheane believes the figure was much higher – about 9,000.
The SANDF did not report ammunition theft and loss but at least 330 rounds of R4 ammunition were lost in 2018/19. Meanwhile, the police, she said, lost nine-million rounds between 2014 and 2019.
https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/796203/goverment-losing-thousands-of-guns-to-criminals-in-south-africa-1/