Brakpan resident receives medal for 40 years of service to SAPS
Magda Kotze has served throughout Gauteng.
Magda Kotze recently received a medal for 40 years of service in the SAPS.
“My career started in school when we were instructed to write a letter to the organisation we might want to work for to ask which qualifications we will need. Even then I was already called to the field of crime fighting and investigation,” Kotze said.
Throughout the years Kotze has received many medals and faced many ups and downs. She has lost friends and colleagues, as well as her husband, who passed away in 2021.
Out of this marriage, three boys were born.
Kotze has worked across almost the whole of Gauteng except for Brakpan but has been living here since 1995.
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She’s a member of Just Wheels Motor Club and the Brakpan Women’s Agricultural Union (WAU). At one point in her career, Kotze also acted as a prosecutor but was promoted and left the job.
In 1993 Kotze attended a financial management course in Pretoria and was appointed as financial officer for the Kempton Park District.
It was at this time that Kotze relocated to Gauteng, and she worked all over. The 40-year medal Kotze received was awarded by President Cyril Ramaphosa, for a clean record and 40 years of quality service in the police.
Other medals Kotze has received over the years are:
• SAPS 75th anniversary commemorative in 1988
• SAPS medal for faithful service, 10 years for 1993, in 1998
• Amalgamation medal in 1995
• SAPS star for faithful service, 20 years, in 2003
• SAPS 10-year commemoration medal for 1995 to 2005
• FIFA Soccer World Cup support medal for 2010 in 2012
• SAPS loyal service medal, 30 years, in 2013
• 1913-2013 centenary medal in 2013
