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The Democratic Alliance wants the South African Police Service to provide an update on the progress being made in terms of farm and rural safety crime prevention.
This followed a video circulating on social media, alleging that a SAPS officer in Matatiele in the Eastern Cape had used a police vehicle to steal sheep from the community and transported the animals over the Ramathsidiso Border Post.
DA MP, Noko Masipa, said while the officer was apparently arrested, the full circumstances of the alleged stock theft is still unknown.
He said this was not the first time that police officers have been implicated in stock theft and it was critical that "those rogue officials are identified and held to account."
Masipa said the DA reiterated its call on the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko
Didiza, to engage the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, to stop blowing hot air and urgently execute rural safety plans.
"It is high time that the government implement all practical preventative action plans to combat stock theft and other crimes happening on farms and in rural areas," he said.
