If you make promises, you have to deliver, Thabo. If you make threats, you have to deliver, Jacob. If you try to make friends all around, you end up being surrounded by enemies, Cyril.
The fact that the Presidential Protection Unit of the SAPS consists out of 1382 staff members providing protection for only 17 people, is proof of the fact that the leaders of South Africa are scared of their own people.
The PPU provides security for the President, Deputy President, former presidents and deputies and their immediate family. According to figures confirmed by Bheki Cele, this in effect means that there are 81 police officers providing security for EVERY ONE of the 17 people qualifying for protection. 81 to 1.
Compared to the ration of 1 police officer for every 369 ordinary South Africans, this is unjustifiable beyond reasoning. It becomes even more outrageous when you realise that the PPU has cost the taxpayer R2 BILLION over the last 36 months!
The makings of a dictatorship just shows everywhere these days, doesn’t it?
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