The Zuma family also urged people to continue desist from destroying infrastructure, adding that it opposed the arrest of Ngizwe Mchunu
’s children have called for his unconditional release from prison, insisting that their father respected the laws of the country. appeared to distance themselves from the recent looting and vandalism triggered by protests against their father’s incarceration for contempt of court.
Zuma, who still enjoys a lot of support in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal, was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment for contempt after he defied a Constitutional Court order to appear before the Zondo commission probing state capture during the years he was president.’s government has now classified as an attempted insurrection. The looting and arson attacks are said to have cost the KwaZulu-Natal economy alone more than R20-billion and placed more than 150 000 jobs in the province at risk.
On Thursday, Zuma’s children vowed to continue pushing for his release, saying they would “fight this unjust action until our calls are heard by the law enforcement officer”. “We have always understood and still do, that any form of injustice, no matter where and how it manifests itself, will always invoke him, to come forward and perform his supreme duty to his first family, the people of South Africa, no matter how heavy the price,” they added.
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