‘A tooth for a tooth as criminals don’t carry broomsticks’ - Cele
Police
Minister Bheki Cele continued his anti-crime campaign in Welkom in the Free
State on Friday.
The minister, who was addressing the men and women in blue who will be out in full force to safeguard the holiday season, said the Old Testament speaks of “a tooth for a tooth”.
“MEC, I agree with you, I don’t know where you got your verse, as I don’t read the bible in the New Testament I read the Old Testament, it tells me that if you take my tooth I take your tooth, If you take my eye, I take your eye.”
Cele told the officers that they must always protect protestors who are exercising their right to protest peacefully.
“As you attend to ordinary South Africans protesting for legitimate reasons using their constitutional right to protest, protesting without violence, or destruction of property, without hurting other people, you go there and work closely with those people, you protect them and you assist them.”
However, he warned the kindness shown to protestors should not be shown to criminals.
“When criminals who go for cash heists, bank and house robbers, you don’t smile around those people. They don't carry broomsticks or yellow dust, they carry something more serious than that, that’s why we give something serious as well.
“When criminals engage you as a member of SAPS as a member of the law enforce, when they decide to engage you, please make sure when the dust settles and when we supposed to pick up the dead bodies, we are not pick up the body of a dead officers, we are not Avbob”
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