Well, maybe today is an opportunity to speak to this hon House about this question of affidavits. I will request the members in this House to understand and request their communities not to go to police stations to write affidavits because they are clogging the system. All councillors are commissioners of oath. They can write affidavits. All principals of schools, bonke umfundisi [all pastors], all members here are commissioners of oath. Why do you clog the police station? The police station needs to work with criminal matters. [Applause.]
So, I'm making the call today to discourage communities from going to police stations but to go to the offices of
councillors and the offices of members here, and allow the police to deal with core crime issues as their work rather than clogging the system.
However, having said that, the police know how to write these very well. [Interjections.] They know. Well, if they did not know ... and write them well, not so many long queues would be going to the police station. They would be going to these people I'm talking about; the councillors. Councillors don't have much work so they must do these things. Thank you.
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