Zuma’s promise to bolster SAPS ‘not achieved’: Africa Check

Three years after making the promise‚ the target he predicted was missed by 7.1%. Five years after declaring that his administration was “implementing plans to increase the number of policemen and women by 10% over the next three years”‚ the figure is even worse.Africa Check – in the first of a six-part series reviewing pledges made by President Jacob Zuma in State of the Nation Addresses (Sona) – declared of his claim on bolstering South African Police Service (SAPS): “Verdict: Not achieved”.