‘We saw dark clouds gathering’, Cele tells HRC about July unrest: The police minister told the Human Rights Commission the president instructed him to avoid violence in response to Jacob Zuma’s pending arrest as far as legally possible
Police Minister Bheki Cele told the Human Rights Commission on Friday that he had expected trouble over the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma in July, and had spent the night it happened in nail-biting negotiations and constant contact with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“I was not prepared to occupy the cell,” he said, hence he tried to ensure “that we don’t reach that day that we had pictured in the head”. In his testimony to the HRC this week, Mkhwanazi said the crowds were plainly breaching Covid-19 regulations but the police decided not to act, unless strictly necessary, so as not to aggravate an already tense situation.
, informing him that they would not act on the court order to arrest Zuma pending the outcome of his bid to rescind his sentence.
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