04/02/2026
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A High Court judgment delivered on 2 February 2026 has now confirmed, in black and white, that the Central Fi****ms Registry has been acting unlawfully.
This is no longer a complaint from gun owners or dealers. It is a court finding.
The Marksman Arms judgment is critical because it exposes systemic abuse of power inside the CFR, not minor administrative error. The court found that firearm and dealer licence applications were unlawfully delayed, obstructed and effectively refused without any authority in the Fi****ms Control Act.
At the centre of this failure sits Brigadier Sikhakhane, the head of the Central Fi****ms Registry. The judgment makes it clear that the unlawful conduct complained of occurred under her leadership and authority. This includes shifting requirements, invented criteria, endless delays and decisions taken without procedural fairness. That is not lawful administration. It is institutional incompetence.
The court explicitly rejected CFR’s standard defence of “capacity constraints” and backlogs. The law does not bend because CFR cannot manage itself. Administrative incapacity is not a lawful excuse for violating citizens’ rights. If the CFR is dysfunctional, that failure rests squarely with its leadership.
When a High Court has to remind the head of a national registry that public officials may only exercise powers granted by Parliament, it is an indictment of both competence and attitude. This is not caution or public safety. It is useless governance.
The real-world consequence is dangerous. Law-abiding South Africans who comply with training, background checks, renewals and safe storage are systematically disadvantaged. Criminals, meanwhile, face no CFR forms, no refusals and no delays. They continue to acquire and use illicit fi****ms freely, through gangs, corruption and organised crime networks that CFR has shown no ability to disrupt.
The result is a system that punishes compliance while criminals do as they please.
This judgment draws a clear line. Under Brigadier Sikhakhane’s leadership, the CFR has drifted into policy-making by obstruction, something it has no constitutional mandate to do. Public safety cannot be achieved by quietly sabotaging legislation through unlawful administration.
We will soon officially have to zoom in on the Central Fi****ms Registry, its leadership, its decision-making processes and its compliance with the Fi****ms Control Act and PAJA. Court findings of this seriousness demand oversight, consequences and reform.
You do not build safety by disarming the compliant while criminals remain armed. That is not gun control. That is governance failure. IC
