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MATJHABENG TRAFFIC OFFICIALS gatecrashed the Northern Free State Aquatics gala at the Welkom Swimming Pool on Friday evening.
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Gala gatecrashed Traffic officials’ unbecoming shock spectators Marti Will THERE is quite an uproar after Matjhabeng traffic officials gatecrashed the Northern Free State Aquatics swimming gala at the Welkom Swimming Pool on Friday evening, displaying unbecoming behaviour in full view of children and the public. According to Joseph Sephiri, the political head of Public Safety and Security in Matjhabeng, this kind of behaviour by law enforcement officials is unacceptable and to be condemned. “I will have the incident investigated and the guilty parties will be charged accordingly. I will not tolerate this kind of behaviour,” says Sephiri.
The venue had been hired out to Northern Free State Aquatics, and aquatics officials, parents and children (as young as seven years) from as far afield as Sasolburg, Bethlehem and Kroonstad were in attendance. The traffic officials converged on the event, beverages and cigarettes in hand. Obviously in a very relaxed and joyous mood they took over the baby (splash) pool and the diving pool fully clothed. One woman danced over the sprayers on the lawn in a very short and tight dress, while another climbed out of the diving pool with her dress pulled up under her arm pits. Her panties,
bra and bare back were in full view of the under-age children a couple of metres away. Corrie Steyn, president of Northern Free State Aquatics, is furious. “We privately hired the venue. Then these traffic officials arrived, en mass, taking alcohol out of the official traffic vehicles and making a noise. The women were swimming in their underwear. It was disgusting. What kind of example have they set for young and influencable children?” says Steyn. Clinton Thomas, a parent, says it is a disgrace that law enforcement officers can drink like that in a public place (where there are large signs prohibiting the use of
alcohol). “Then they get into their official traffic vehicles and drive away (after consuming alcohol).It is also a national regulation that no-one may smoke or drink at a swimming gala. Furthermore, South African law prohibits smoking near children. One woman was so drunk she almost fell into the big pool where the children were competing,” says Thomas. In an answer to an official media enquiry, a municipal official stated: “. . . the other part of the swimming pool was full of white people busy conducting swimming competitions”. This official also said that no traffic vehicle was used to either load or
off-load alcohol. She states the get-together was “a team-building session where they were briefed on the general law enforcement progress performance during 2013 festive season operations”. Thomas says swimming is a multi-racial and multi-cultural sport. “On Friday evening there were people of all races, colours and creeds present, and competing, to observe this absolutely abhorrent behaviour.” ) Vista has video footage of the traffic officers at the Welkom swimming-pool. Go to http:// www.vistanews.co.za/2475/media/ video/officials-gate-crash-swimming-gala-in-welkom
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