Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has thanked police officers for the sacrifices they make to safeguard the country.
The country on Monday marked National Police Day.
“You leave your families to serve the greater family that is our beloved country. Your sacrifices do not go unnoticed. On behalf of the government of the Republic of South Africa and the people you so diligently protect, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you.
“The parade today is a symbol of the discipline, strength, and capabilities of the SAPS [South African Police Service]. It is a reminder to the people of South Africa that their police service is committed to excellence,” the Minister said when delivering his keynote address at the National Police Day celebrations at Kings Park Athletics Stadium in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday.
The day brought together men and women in blue to recognise and celebrate the critical role played by law enforcement in upholding justice and maintaining public order.
Approved in 2005 by Cabinet, National Police Day also serves as a platform to strengthen the bond between police officers and the communities they serve.
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National Commissioner of the Police, General Fannie Masemola, also paid tribute to police officers.
“When we reflect, as the SAPS management, we see a trail of momentous sacrifices made. We see you deprive yourselves of sleep, family time and social life patrolling the streets of South Africa day and night.
“We see you maintaining public order, we see you protecting the residents of South Africa and their property, and we see you putting an effort to prevent, combat and investigate crime in service of our country,” said General Masemola.
This year’s National Police Day programme included a ceremonial parade, displays and exhibitions to showcase the capabilities and expertise within the SAPS.
National Police Day underscores SAPS’s commitment to professionalising the service, promoting accountability, and ensuring a safer South Africa for all.
The event was preceded by a series of activities, which included the National Golf Day, where more than R11 million was raised on Friday towards the South African Police Service Education Trust (SAPSET).
Also, the SAPS hosted its 10th edition National Excellence Awards on Sunday, where police officers and support personnel were awarded for going above and beyond the call of duty in the last year.
SAPS also extended its gratitude to all police officers for their unwavering dedication and to the community for its continued support. – SAnews.gov.za
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Botswana: You have two cows. But that\’s not surprising because you have pretty much every type of non-extinct mammal in your country.
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The Man who could only Drink Milk
I know an old man who had lived a life full of adventure, but his health started to catch up with him. He\’d run the Boston Marathon, was an avid surfer, and climbed Everest, but he\’d started to have abdominal pains around his 85th birthday and went to see a doctor. Sadly, he ultimately was diagnosed with a rare degenerative liver disease that slowly made him allergic to everything he ate.
He kept copious notes, and as an avid gastronomist slowly grew to despair as everything he\’d spent his life enjoying became something he could no longer eat. Alcohol went first, then mushrooms, then bread, then root vegetables, then coffee, one at a time he had to remove them from his diet. The doctor was clear: if he kept eating something his liver rejected the autoimmune response would be quick and severe, and would lead to a painful death. Little by little, everything was taken away as an option, until the only thing that remained was milk.
In some ways, this actually made life easier, because the mental strain of remembering what he could and couldn\’t eat was gone, but then so was the joy in variety. But he took it in stride, and got his own cow and took classes from a farmer to learn everything he could about the only thing that could give him sustenance. And even within milk, he could still have yogurt, butter, cream, some cheeses, and other milk-derived products he hadn\’t fully rejected yet, so it wasn\’t all bad. But then one day a few months later he felt the pain again, and he knew cow\’s milk was no longer an option.
Lacking other options, he tried goat\’s milk, and he was delighted that it worked! The protein structure is just different enough that his body still tolerated it. That bought him another month. And that\’s when we came up with a wonderful plan to go on one last grand adventure around the world. If he could get one month of life out of the milk of every mammal, he\’d actually have a few more years to enjoy life to the fullest and see the world in all its beauty. Each month, we\’d pick a place with a new mammal, and he would immerse himself fully with the locals, learn all the ways to prepare the milk, and just enjoy the hand he had been dealt as much as he could.
We milked sheep in New Zealand. Camels in Egypt. Zebras in South Africa. Giant bats in Indonesia. Do you know how many Peruvian cuy you need to milk to get a single glass? I do. Even as his health slowly faded, he stayed cheerful, and I felt lucky to join him on the adventure of a lifetime. That brings us to today when he got to the very end of his spreadsheet, and declared that he was now allergic to every mammal. He\’d enjoyed his journey, but his time had come to an end, for there was nothing left to milk.
To which I said nonsense, I bet we can milk a few thousand karma out of this post.