{"id":216575,"date":"2022-02-15T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T07:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/no-security-threat-to-sa\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T07:37:31","slug":"no-security-threat-to-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/no-security-threat-to-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"No security threat to SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202202\/bhekiatpodium.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Police Minister Bheki Cele has told a joint sitting of Parliament that there is no security threat to the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said this when he participated in a debate on the State of the Nation Address on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllow me to reiterate and reaffirm our strong position as the security cluster, without fear of contradiction, that there is no threat to the stability of this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI repeat, there is no threat to the stability of this country. Some components of the security services of this country may be limping but they are not down and they are certainly not out!\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa said that following the report of the expert panel on the July 2021 unrest, government will begin a process of putting together a response plan to address the weaknesses that the report identified.<\/p>\n<p>Participating in the debate, Cele said mopping up a mess that was deliberately created to weaken the country\u2019s security agencies and law enforcement will take some time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cBut, rest assured, the work has started and it will be done. Those criminals who were hell bent on seeing this country go under, during the July attempted insurrection, failed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey failed because the police acted and did what they could in the most difficult of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men and women in blue of this country, did all they could in the hardest of times. Our &#8220;security cluster&#8221; is functional; this is why our prisons are full as we speak. [Justice and Constitutional Development]&nbsp; Minister&nbsp;Ronald&nbsp;Lamola&nbsp;can attest to this. Those incarcerated criminals did not walk [in] there on their own free will,\u201d said Cele. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Minister Bheki Cele has told a joint sitting of Parliament that there is no security threat to the country. He said this when he participated in a debate on the State of the Nation Address on Monday. \u201cAllow me to reiterate and reaffirm our strong position as the security cluster, without fear of contradiction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-216575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/no-security-threat-to-sa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}