{"id":38267,"date":"2026-06-28T17:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38267"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:17:28","slug":"sas-cachalia-calls-for-mutual-respect-as-officers-deploy-ahead-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-cachalia-calls-for-mutual-respect-as-officers-deploy-ahead-of-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Cachalia calls for mutual respect as officers deploy ahead of protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks at a police parade in KwaZulu-Natal province ahead of the nationwide operational deployment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cachalia emphasised the need to maintain law and order while protecting the rights of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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\u2019t 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&#8217;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34922,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26,305],"class_list":["post-38267","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","news-type-special-projects","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"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","published_date":"2026-06-28 16:09:53","news_description":"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","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38268,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38267\/revisions\/38268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}