Acting police minister Firoz Cachalia turned the final G20 security parade into a national call-to-action, urging South African law enforcement officers to show the world who we are as the country steps on to the global stage to host the first G20 summit on African soil.
Addressing hundreds of officers from the SAPS, the SANDF, metro police and support agencies in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Cachalia said South Africans, and not only their security agencies, carry the responsibility of showing the world a united, capable democracy.
The eyes of the world will be on us, he said, emphasising that the first G20 summit on African soil places South Africa at the centre of global attention.