Police minister Bheki Cele has confirmed that Deputy President Paul Mashatile was part of the convoy when members of his VIP protection allegedly assaulted motorists in Gauteng last month.
Cele appeared with police managers and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate before parliament’s police portfolio committee to account for their respective investigations of the incident.From the onset, both organisations warned they would be thin on information as the matter was before the court, with Cele appealing that the meeting should not be used as a platform to “try the case and answer the questions of the court”.
Police national commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola also clarified that even if Mashatile was not in the convoy, the vehicles move together at the same speed.“A convoy remains a convoy and it moves as a convoy, whether the principal is present or not.
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