City Press has learnt that the SAPS and two unions representing millions of police officers are at loggerheads over the payment of overtime and travel allowances for more than 1 100 VIP protection personnel in
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There should be a VIPPU (Vip Protection Unit) under the Police Service or Army not hiring private security officers. Thats wasting resources..
Half of them are foreign nationals. But let them strike, we wanna see something
SAPS need to Protect the South African not MEC and MINISTER'S. But i do understand that this People they always want everything for FREE
We all know that ANC doesn't like other People to have money. Because they believe Money is for them. Without Bodyguard it's fine. Money will protect them
It's OK. Their new BMW's can protect them. 🤬
Why do they need protection? If they ensured that law and order is proper then there will be no need to have protection. The taxpayers who are the ones bankrolled this ego-boosting exercise do not have protection or are they regarded as VUP, very unimportant people?
Those Crooks,they can live without protection. They stole enough that they could buy SAPS or any other protection services for themselves🤮🤮
VIP Protection for what wasteful expenditure
I don't blame SAPS for not paying overtime cos that means they are working beyond official timetable. Eg VIP unit driving Zuma to go chow Irvin Khozas daughter. That's not official duty.
MbuyiseniNdlozi Fire them all
Yifilim le 🤣🤣🙉
Why do they have protectors in the first place 🤷🏿♂️was government not saying they are cutting expenditure to help government save instead of wasting money as they always do 🤔..
Who cares, they can go on strike
Glorious!!
If Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was our President we would not even need the VIP because everyone loved her.
One big FOKKEN CIRCUS! 😂
What/Who are the MECs and Ministers being protected from to begin with?🤔
Easy, never replace them. Bar the from the service. Striking is not for everyone.
Good, a waste of tax payers money. These MYANC fat cats must catch the bus
Such a waste of our tax money
Imagine hijacking a beemer driven by a minister? 🤔 You'll be the most respected mf in every hood in SA. 😅
These thugs don't deserve any protection
Weekly orro Monthly🕯🕯
Hopefully they go on a ‘driving go slow’ and stop abusing SA motorists !
K_CyberSecWrld They must strike, and these guys must finish what they started
K_CyberSecWrld And those Afrikaners must do what they failed to do in ANCPolokwaneConference
Yes they don't need them
If I may ask, overtime doing what exactly?
Azikhale!
Things that one wished they shouldn't have happened!
LangaDlamini7 They must leave them unprotected just for one week🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Everything is just a mesa under Ankole
So...they are then normal citizens like us..
That's good, never understood why public servants need to be protected from the people who voted them into power.
Walk baby walk!!
which faction of the ANC will be without protection?
LucidualLady Let it happen. The ministers must feel the reality of SA.
I think a prolonged strike of the VIP units is a long overdue idea.
Are they scared of their voters now ?
I always ask myself why do you campaign among ordinary people to vote for you but, as soon as you're voted to power, you must be protected from the very same people you love so much that they returned the favour by voting u into power? This is what keeps politicians from reality.
They are protected by the masses because they serve us well
Let them do that SAPoliceService will take over theirs many of them that have no job in SA.. even SANDF_ZA can take over
Just disband the unit
MbuyiseniNdlozi They should just use regular SAPS officers since they already have 24/7 shifts. Maybe that will force them to take the quality of police more seriously
I can't wait? I definitely don't understand why should criminals be protected by our tax money in the first place 🙄
MbuyiseniNdlozi Actually why do we have to foot the bill for bodyguards why do public representatives need bodyguard
I'll support them. Thosr politicians are full of themselves!
Let them go alone y waist all the money on security mx .send them to sgandaf alone one time
Yey nina‼The policemen and women are tired of sitting in cars at the parking lots of concubines' complexes till the wee hours for no reward‼
🕯️🕯️🕯️ please...let them feel how it's like to be without protection
I luv South Africa...😆😆😆😆
DesireTablai It's about time. Normal citizens have to risk their lives everyday while walking to work or going to the shop
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Let them inform us when they do strike so that we can straight those minister's ngenduku...
Zyakhala manje
They dont need VIP protection anyways, since they govern this country so beautifully, let them enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Ofhie57405558 Let the VIP'S pay for their own protection if they want it.
Can they strike sibanjwe itraffic sonke. These blue lights harrass us on the road, rushing for nothing but to eat our money.
If this materializes it would make me so happy
Haibo bo kanti yini ngo Cyril
ANCscum
Let them strike, maybe thee freeway will be nice to drive on for at least 2 weeks
Ofhie57405558 There is no need to guard those useless ministers
It's being done deliberately so that private security can take over that's Cyril for you
Overtime for what? Why are ministers incurring overtime for their protection services in the first place? The police are a mess.
They have to strike shem. Imagine providing VIP protection, Nanny to their brats, sent to fetch their hoes, sent to buy bread and hold thier handbags and hold a mirror while they powder their faces!!!
😂
MANSAMU51600932 All well n good for them but what are they working overtime for. Who wants to kill them really? 😒
The money was spent in Namibia looking for Phalaphala criminals
Fantastic news
Let them strike, I want to see something...
The bustards will use private security at very high price
The people shall govern
Oooooh nooooo! What are we going to do? I'll tell you. Nothing. Because we all know that they don't need protection. It's Status thing. And that counts for a helluva lot in the ranks of the trough feeders.
peterbroggs And they are being abused to drive during odd hours. From clubs, jolling…😅
Who are they scared of, their voters?
Ankole VIP units
kabelodick 😂😂😂😂😂 They must not worry that money will come. This is a priority 😒
About time too. Just dismiss striking workers would be the best solution.
Redundant expenditure.
Protection from what vele? They have licenses, let them drive themselves.
They only need protection from themselves. If they want to kill each so be it.
New dawn iyanyisa bo!
Waste of taxes
Good let them strike for a month and they must feel pain
Imagine minister of Agriculture with security? For what exactly really
I am waiting for that day,
Good. Who needs protection in south africa?
Those cops should be reduced, redeployed to protect citizens,not thieving infidels who call themselves vip's
SihleMahamba Can't wait ☺️
These ministers don't protect their citizens or care about them. Why should we pay to protect them. Get rid of VIP protection. Let them feel unsafe too so they understand that their inefficiency is not acceptable. We want what we pay for.
Even the VIP unit, the people who protect the crooked Government members aren't being paid. Says a lot!!! Can't even pay the people who supposed to protect them.
Fanos tasticos
Why they even protected at first place?🤷♂️🤔
What does the constitution say about them. Are they allowed to go on strike?
Yho yho yho.
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The VIP protection must be canned completely. Only the president and deputy should get VIP protection.
Nows our chance 😂
MfokaMqulusi Why do they even need protection, against who
Corrupt MYANC predatory political elite are well protected whilst SAns hv to fend for themselves against ANC criminality & criminals CyrilRamaphosa RonaldLamola MbalulaFikile DlaminiZuma GwedeMantashe1 🙄
k9_reaper
Ag they will be sorted these ones.
The wheel turns 😁
kabelodick Are these VIP?
We need SANDF_ZA to go on strike.
kabelodick I hold it happens soon they won’t die mod and will feel what’s like to be ordinary citizens
Protection from who, the tax payers?
Fire all those VIP's. The only person who need VIP is Motswaledi the rest they can drive their picanto's to work.
Minister and other officers are enemies unto themselves and feel that those they are supposed to protect are their enemies hence protection. They are are looting. They even have taught the VIP units to loot from state coffers by claiming overtime even though there isn't.
CollenGwebu When they campaign for election they are not scared of us but only after occupying the privilege positions, it should be disbanded.
Why be afraid of the people that voted you into that positions in the first place. SAPS should be the only people to protect them and if they cant they only have themselves to blame and if they are not happy with that, let them pay for their own protection!
Nice
Protection from each other...
They don't pay these guys, they want to retrench so that bidvest takes over the unit, that's what's is currently happening to Gordhan.
The repercussions of looting in all government departments. The holes are everywhere and there is no money money to cover them. Even borrowing will never enough. Its now been compounded by taking over other African countries problems and made them ours. Sifakwe ekakeni qha.
Who hasn't gone on strike here in South Africa?
Gayton McKenzie is paying from his pockets. Why cant they do the same. Plus bona they have more money from looting.
Useless ministers, protection for what?
If they were doing their jobs properly they wouldn't need protection ,just another wasteful expenditure 🤔
ModiseTPhumo Waste of our tax money. They don't add any value to South African.
Protection from ?
kabelodick I hope they withdraw their services, it isn’t necessary to begin with
Fantastic. It should be removed. We can't have the politicians detached from the realities of life in SA. How else will they be able to SERVE us.
The truth is that most of these politicians should not be having protectors. These services should be only for the president and deputy president. The rest of the protectors should be reassigned to the force. Re shorta ka boots on the ground.
StylesKp 👀👀
bontleshabalala When I catch an MP out on the streets
But one man will have his security detail intact ......
Remember when Mbaks protection unit complained about him taking them to night clubs and staying all night?
👀
They are over staffed anyway and the people they protect can use public transportation you would not see a difference.
Treason Treason Treason Must be fired with immediate effect. What does the constitution say on the matter? Doesn't the same law applicable to SAPoliceService SANDF_ZA apply to looters.
No Overtime incentives , No Work.
They don't need protection anyway
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That will not affect the man on the street if they strike
Anc is a virus stronger then Corona.. the only vaccine is to vote it out if not we the citizens will die from anc virus
Do it.
SAPS behaves like one boss I know.
Angikhathali
This banana republic mara?
They don't need any protection who are they being protected from
Do we have a government in this country
Why should tax payers foot the bill to protect mafias, these SAPS members must assume their job as police and these mafias must hire their own protection or utilise one's they use to monitor certain innocent ordinary citizens.
Do Ministers need VIP?
Police Officers don't strike!!
This dispute will be resolved in record time. Cannot subject VIP's to the horrors of crime experience by normal citizens.
I hope it happens I wanna see something 🤔
Do that please, these guys are ordinary citizens by the way, why must they be protected from the same people they are meant to lead anyway
JackLon09169906 I never expected to fully support strike action, yet, here we are.
The circus is coming to town.
😳
Good! It should come their own pockets.
Shame !
If these guys were doing their job with honesty by serving the country well, there wouldn't be a VIPs needed. They could get just driver and do their job. The issue of entitlement is a problem here, unless I'm wrong on this🤔🤔🤔
They must pay themselves,why must we pay?nobody cares for us😈😈😈
At shame. Poor ministers
Why must they have it in the first place?
Protection from what? Do they even deserve that protection. Waste of our hard earned money
Everything is falling apart under Ramaphosa Wow
Protectors must push their 8hr shift per day, if an Office Bearer is not efficient in those 8hr they must see themselves bazophuma njani. Plus those guys are treated like rags yong, one former minister was reminiscing how he misses having his things carried around by VIP.
Those things must pay overtime out of their pockets. They are useless what value are they adding anyway?
Great! When the people with over inflated egos suddenly have to walk aroind without armed guards for protecting them, after the first few get mugged then maybe they may reconsider wanting to take away legal firearms used for self defense. Let them live like the rest of us.
Kanani cause they keep increasing the VIP Protection budget? 😏
Wouldn't that just be nice and the army to follow and boom!
About time.
These reckless drivers are not needed on our roads.
Akunyiwe
You can't have such people protecting our principals.....you can triple their salaries, but they must be removed immediately from the security detail SAPoliceService
Good.
I do not care. In fact, I can say I do not give af.
Thats good when crime is rife. Maybe they will start working towards eradication if it
Why don't the 'VIPs' pay for overtime from their own pockets.
Let them protect themselves
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If these are the blue light vehicle drivers/thugs who harass motorists on the road then good riddance to them.
Hallelujah! Makube njalo!!
JustXavierB And they hit them with diaries 😢
Who do they need protection from? Other comrades? VoetsekANC 🚮
Fire all those clowns
Those ministers are useless. They don't need protection.
Why are wasting protection on people who literally add no value to our country, and in fact mostly destroys it. Overlooking their work and running criminal syndicates with our resources. Why do they need any more protection than us. This nonsense must stop.
This useless ANC ministers don't need protection, protecting empty vase it's a waste of time
Were they born with that protection? Some had it before and after they left the office are doing fine without it. This nonsense of putting these useless people on the pedestal is sickening. The sky will not fall.
Good would love to see that!
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It's not a problem for South Africa as the VIP units are not protecting someone adding value to the taxpayers, mamparras don't need protecting.
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