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Joint cooperative governance best plan for SAPS: analyst
According to Helen Zille, Federal Council Chair, national government is increasingly unable to fulfill its constitutional duties in the Western Cape.
CAPE TOWN - We are better served through joint and cooperative government according to policing expert Eldred de Klerk in response to the DA’s push to take over policing in the Western Cape.
According to Helen Zille, Federal Council Chair, national government is increasingly unable to fulfill its constitutional duties in the Western Cape.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has also pointed out that Section 199(1) of the Constitution states that the security services of South Africa consist of a single national police service.
De Klerk said, “everything that the SAPS needs in terms of strengthening its capabilities, strengthening its structured leadership can and should be achieve on behalf of all of us through joint and cooperative government."
"That better serves South Africans as a direction going forward. This idea of withstanding opposition or the claim that we can do it better and that is a completely untested claim that it can be and will be done better if necessary devolved onto a provincial level, that’s not a claim that hold water at a moment."
"We are better served through joint and cooperative government and through all this people coming to the table and squarely looking the challenges of transformation of saps squarely in the eye, putting it in on table and us coming with shared and common ideas.”