Is it that protecting the criminals within the ranks is now more of a priority than cleaning up the SAPS? Why do you say one thing on TV yet another behind the scenes? How is it that there has been a 15% increase in deaths in detention?
When the ICD legislation is finally ratified, believe me, the Minister will never treat them with contempt again. They are there to keep the SAPS straight, as the Minister will not do it himself and, believe me, there will not be a loophole the size of a flea for any of the Minister's crooked cop members to squirm through.
The Minister failed to protect our borders, as was his mandate. Now the Defence Force has been called back to clean up his mess. I trust the SAPS members at the border posts will be vetted with the Auditor-General's report in mind - that corruption at the borders is endemic, and that false papers are produced faster than Wilber Smith books.
The Minister should take time away from the parties - another of which he'll be throwing this evening, I believe - and think a moment of the 2 000 SAPS pensioners still without their pensions for up to three years because of the Minister's staff incompetence. They won't be eating and drinking fine food and wines this evening - but their taxes will be paying for this. Give them their pensions ... [Interjections.]