Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has called for mutual respect as South African Police Service (SAPS) officers are deployed ahead of the June 30 protests.
He made the remarks at a police parade in KwaZulu-Natal province ahead of the nationwide operational deployment.
Cachalia emphasised the need to maintain law and order while protecting the rights of South Africans.
“We have our own cultures, our own experiences, and our own value systems which have taught us the values of mutual respect and the importance of human dignity; you don’t need a Constitution to remind South Africans that those are our deep values. You can say, in fact, that this Constitution is an expression of those deep values. We didn’t start to have values only when we adopted a constitution; we had those deep values that were born in a struggle for freedom against colonialism, against apartheid.”
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