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The FW de Klerk Foundation is deeply concerned about reports that Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile, the Head of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Western Cape, has issued an instruction that English must be used in all A-1 statements at police stations in the province. A-1 statements are completed by people usually when they are reporting crimes at police stations.   This is in flagrant contravention of section 6(3)(a) of the Constitution which requires that the national government and provincial governments “must use at least two official languages.” The languages the government chooses must take into account the needs and preferences of the population of the province concerned. Afrikaans is by far the most widely spoken language in the Western Cape and must axiomatically be one of at least two national languages used in the Western Cape by provincial and national departments – including the South African Police Service.  

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