Guardian Angels South Africa

Are you a religious cult?

We are not affiliated with any religion. Members are free to believe in whatever they want. We do not all share the same religion or beliefs; however, we do all share the same ideals of community service and sacrifice. We are not affiliated with any political party. Our members are free to support whatever political ideology or platform they want so long as it does not involve the persecution and hatred of any group of people.  We do not use coercive, deceptive means to indoctrinate members. We protect the rights of all members. We do not attempt to isolate members from their communities, family, friends, and co-workers. We believe it is more important for members to choose to enhance their attitudes and beliefs than be forced.

Are you a security company?

No.  security guards are paid employees. They answer to their employers not the public. Their priorities are the employer, his property, and his customers not the public. Their authority only covers their private property. They are not allowed to assist the public across the street.  Their training is minimal. Their public relations and conflict resolution skills are minimal. They are usually armed at least with large flashlights and pepper spray. For many of them, their job is limited to calling a supervisor if anything unusual happens on property.

Are you a neighbourhood watch?

Neighbourhood Watches are only concerned with their own neighbourhood. They usually do not patrol on foot. There is no worldwide network or association. They are usually short lived or until their problems go away.  They do not have a national or worldwide name and reputation. They are mostly home owners and rarely involve youth or young adults. Their focus is purely on protecting their private property or rentals. Their training is minimal. Their public relations and conflict resolution skills are minimal. They may be armed.

Are you Vigilantes?

Vigilantes take the law into their own hands. They are the judge, jury, and executioners. They do not call the police. They inflict unnecessary pain, injury, and even death upon their victims. They do not consider themselves accountable to the public. They neither respect the law nor authority. They usually act out on some vendetta against an individual, family, or group.  Their focus is not the betterment of the community but the persecution and destruction of their enemies.

Are those Pagan symbols on your shirt?

The Guardian Angels are not into secret symbols and hidden meanings.  We have no hidden or secret agendas, meetings, manuals, members, or hand shakes. The eye does not represent the Egyptian Osiris eye, Satan, Cyclops, the sun, God, a spying eye; Freemasonry’s all seeing eye, or the US dollar bill eye. It simply represents a watchful eye above us all, watching out for us like guardian angels

The shield represents protection and being a guardian. The wings are there to enfold our communities in caring. The triangle represents strength.

Our choice of the colour red also holds no secret or hidden meaning. Red is simply a bright colour that stands out, and bright red berets were more available when the Angels were founded in 1979 than blue, purple, yellow, or pink ones.

What about secret meetings and rules

We feel no need to hide anything from the public. In open societies, secret and hidden groups only tend to attract criminals and deceptive people who are more fearful of public opinion and scrutiny than they are interested in freedom and liberty.  For reasons of safety our training is not found in any book in any store as they can be used against vulnerable people, but is freely given to any individual who joins us.  This training is also given freely to community groups and police officials who enquire.

Our brethren-of-the-wing in Canada (aka Canadian Guardian Angels) have an excellent page with further questions on their website.  You can access it here.