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Media Statement PRETORIA – The South African Police Service (SAPS) will host its annual Commemoration Day to honour and pay tribute to women and men in blue who died in the line of duty between April 2023 to March 2024. As a build up to the Commemoration Day that will be held at the Union Buildings on 01 September 2024, the SAPS will honour 39 members who died during this period.
Today we pay tribute to our fallen hero, the late Warrant Officer Gama David Cele who died on 02 January 2024. The 59-year-old member was attached to the Serious Organised Crime Investigation unit within the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks). On 02 January 2024, the member fell to his death during a shootout with a cash-in-transit (CIT) gang that took place on the rough terrains of Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal. It is suspected that the member slipped down the embankment while taking cover from the gunfire and explosion. He was found deceased at the bottom of an embankment. He leaves behind his wife and four children, the youngest being twenty-six-year-old at the time of their father’s passing. Warrant Officer Cele’s name and thirty eight others will be engraved on the SAPS memorial wall at the Union Buildings on the 1st of September 2024, as a symbol of gratitude from the nation for the sacrifices he made in serving and protecting the people of this country until his last breath. Warrant Officer Cele, the SAPS flag does not fly because the wind blows it: it flies with the last breath of every police officer who died defending it. Ends
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