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Why I (and you) should join the SAPS supporters' club

You’d have to be a fundamentally heartless individual to not be empathetic to our gals and fellows in dull blue

27 April 2025 - 00:00

I love our police. No, don’t be that way, I really do love our guys and gals in blue. And yes, I am absolutely virtue signalling — to quote the anti-woke, right-wing kids on Twitter. I’m wading groin deep in the Hypocrisy River. All that said, I will present a watertight, cogent argument about why we all need to join the SAPS supporters' club, as I plan to...

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