Security forces’ response to July unrest thwarted by politics, lack of cooperation between state agencies, SAHRC hears
Former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula at the SAHRC hearing in Durban on Monday.Former minister of defence and military veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula briefly lost her cool on Monday during her almost five-hour grilling at the SA Human Rights Commission’s investigative hearing into July unrest in Durban.
Mapisa-Nqakula immediately asked whether it was relevant and questioned the mandate of the hearing, which began in Durban last Monday. The former minister shook her head, saying she was not on trial, that she had been maligned in the media for contradicting the president because she didn’t believe the unrest, which caused billions of rand in damage, was an incident of insurrection and that the evidence leader was “ruffling her feathers”.
She said: “The point is there was a lot of quibbling and negativity surrounding the terminology in defining what happened. I think that the manner in which it unfolded — I am not being evasive or running away. It is something I hate to go back to — the manner in which I was portrayed by some media to demonise me for contradicting [the] chief in command /head of state. It was as if to say, who do you think you are, and that I was supportive of what was happening.
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