‘To say the state took long to respond, I don’t know, maybe the person that has a problem took long to understand that the state has responded,’ said the minister.
Police Minister Bheki Cele denied on Thursday that the state had been slow in responding to the KwaZulu-Natal floods. At a Justice, Crime Prevention and Security cluster briefing, Cele said that when all the entrances and exits of Umlazi were blocked by floodwater, “There were about 50 kids who couldn’t get out of school. The provincial commissioner [Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi] spoke to the national commissioner [Fannie Masemola] who sent a helicopter.
“So, to say the state took long to respond, I don’t know, maybe the person that has a problem took long to understand that the state has responded.” Speaking about “opportunistic crimes”, Cele said that in Umlazi, a Boxer store was “half looted”, while a Usave store in Umlazi “was saved by the police”. Fourteen people had been arrested for looting the Boxer store.
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